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If your mental map still points to Chip Bee Gardens, update it. The scoops moved into the mall.

The Daily Scoop is where to take the family after a weekend lunch in Holland Village: handmade ice cream at a neighbourhood shop, not a dessert-bar production. It is open daily, the flavour list rotates, and a waffle or brownie turns a cone into a proper dessert. The one thing to know before you go is that it has moved. It now trades from #02-04 on the second floor of Raffles Holland V Mall, not from Chip Bee Gardens.

Why it’s worth the stop

It is a small, steady local business rather than a franchise. The brand describes an uncertain beginning and a simple aim to serve honest ice cream, and it grew because people kept coming back: a second café opened in Holland Village in 2009 and a third in Sembawang-Yishun in 2013. Today there are three shops, at Clementi Arcade on Sunset Way, Sembawang Cottage on Sembawang Road and this one. For years the Holland Village shop was a fixture of Chip Bee Gardens on Jalan Merah Saga; if you still head for the low-rise blocks across Holland Avenue, you will find everything except ice cream.

The flavour list is where the personality shows. The website sorts scoops into Asian-inspired, really fruity and liqueur-spiked “connoisseur” choices, and the names do some of the selling: Kookie Monster, Utterly Avocado, Surprising Coconut and Salted Mister Brown sit alongside Mao Shan Wang and strawberry shortcake. Local ingredients and seasonal fruit turn up often, and the menu changes regularly, so the flavour you loved last time may have gone. That is the risk, and also the reason to ask.

How to do it well

Ask for a taste of whatever is new before you commit. If durian has you in its grip, the Mao Shan Wang is the obvious order, and a cheaper way to settle a family argument about durian than buying the fruit. The classics – vanilla, chocolate, coconut – are there for anyone who wants something they recognise.

Make it a dessert stop rather than a cone on the move: add a waffle or a brownie, take a table, and let the children negotiate. For birthdays there are cakes, gift sets and delivery, and the brand also offers dietary-friendly options, a rotating flavour of the month and an events and catering service.

Holland Village MRT is close by. Head upstairs rather than across Holland Avenue; the old Chip Bee Gardens address is the one mistake this outing allows.

Good to know #02-04 Raffles Holland V Mall, 118 Holland Avenue, near Holland Village MRT. Open daily; hours are in the facts box. Takeaway pints are sold through the official online shop.

The Daily Scoop | #02-04 Raffles Holland V Mall, 118 Holland Avenue, Singapore 278997