In Hong Kong today, there are several shops selling stir-fried ice cream.

In Thailand, stir-fried ice cream is a popular dessert though it is different from the traditional local food culture there.

There are more and more dessert restaurants in Hong Kong selling stir-fried ice cream.

Those Hong Kong dessert chains may well be under the influence by other countries where stir-fried ice cream is rather popular, for example, Thailand.

Due to the result of food globalization, there is now a spread of popularity of stir-fried ice cream to Hong Kong.

Stir-fried ice cream is made with a milk base combined with various fresh ingredients and different toppings served with the ice cream.

As stir-fried ice cream has created a furore in Thailand and also some other countries, some Hong Kong dessert restaurants then began to follow suit and started the production of stir-fried ice cream.

The ease in production of stir-fried ice cream contributes to its popularity in Hong Kong, where people with increasing workloads and stress levels relatively higher compared to other places in Asia, find it hard to sit down and savour a meal and stir-fried ice cream is an alternative.

In 1974, four teenagers shot and killed a Thai ice cream vendor in what was called a "thrill killing" while children were waiting for ice cream.