Le Glace on Muhammad Cinq

Perhaps one of the best ways to beat the heat in Morocco is with ice cream. Located everywhere, ice cream is hard to miss. However, knowing where to go for the best deal is an art form.

Living in a community where tourists are often ripped off, it is important to know what everyday items are supposed to cost. For example, ice cream should not cost 14 dh (dirhams) as some café’s attest. Instead, ice cream or le glace in French, should be 3 dh for 1 boule (scoop), 6dh for 2, and 9dh for 3. Saada where I live has this reasonably priced ice cream, but the best place to go is on Muhammad Cinq just down from le Poste where there are three tiny ice cream shops located one after the other.

Packed in the evenings the shops are hard to miss and equally challenging to get into, as my friend quickly discovered. Sent in to be the ice cream point person, she managed to make it inside, but soon found herself smashed up against the glass, nose down, glaring at the colorful treats. With no way out and impatient people all around, it was an eternity before she was able to fight above the noise, shouting to be heard and giving up completely on the idea of a queue (a line).

Tasting victory at last, she emerged slightly sticky with two beautiful melting cones of ice cream. Cool, Refreshing, TOTALLY worth it!