The ice cream truck parked across from Aberdeen Square right now runs entirely on batteries and the solar panels bolted to its roof.
Watt A Truck is a fully electric Hong Kong-style ice cream truck, and as of mid July it’s sitting at Lipont Place at 4211 No. 3 Road in Richmond.
I stumbled onto it, joined the small line, and got the rundown.
The truck comes from the team behind Snackshot 糖百府, the family-run Hong Kong snack shop that’s been serving curry fish balls and retro HK sweets since 2017.
Their pitch, in their own words: a modern twist on classic Hong Kong ice cream truck culture, with zero generator noise or exhaust.
The details commit to the bit, right down to the red 雪糕車 lettering and the “mind the children crossing” sign painted on the back like the trucks in Hong Kong.
The menu splits into three lanes.
Classic waffle cones run $5 with vanilla, chocolate, or swirl soft serve.
Sundaes are $10 in eight builds: mango sago, HK style coffee milk tea, matcha red bean, pistachio, triple chocolate, crunchy Horlick, fresh local blueberry, and caramel popcorn.
Floatie drinks at $9 put soft serve on affogato, HK milk tea, coffee milk tea, or iced chocolate.
I got the mango sago with vanilla soft serve.
Honest review: it arrived already partly melted, which stung a little at $10, the swirl slumping into the cup before I’d taken a bite.
The build underneath was better news, a fair amount of mango and sago through the cup, and with the syrup it stayed on the right side of sweet rather than cloying.
The truck made its debut at the Hong Kong Fair at the Shipyards in May, then stayed quiet until resurfacing in mid July.
It lands in a busy Richmond stretch for new openings, joining Taoke at Aberdeen Centre, CK Tea C at Pacific Plaza, and Oakberry’s first Richmond location on the way at Concord Gardens.
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