The iconic Taiwan peanut ice-cream roll truly is one of our favourite Taiwan snacks – known locally as ‘Huasheng juan bingqilin’ 花生卷冰淇淋 , these ‘cool’, nostalgic dessert wraps are loved by Taiwanese and travellers alike.
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Available from mobile street sellers, Taiwan’s Old Streets and night markets, Taiwan peanut ice-cream rolls are popular with all ages and are a super chill and convenient snack, usually costing around NT$30 / $40 a roll. And surprise surprise, many ‘ice-cream rolls’ don’t contain ice-cream, instead using non dairy tapioca based ba pu / babu instead.
Combined with Taiwan’s current coriander / cilantro obsession, this is one Taiwan street-food you must try on your next trip. Such is the popularity of them, they even often appear overseas and referred to as ‘ice-cream burritos’.
Here is our guide to Taiwan’s peanut ice-cream rolls – we guarantee it will make you hungry!
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What are Taiwan peanut ice cream rolls?
This ice cream roll is a fun and quirky Taiwanese dessert and consists of peanut candy shavings and two creamy scoops of taro ice cream (or ba pu 叭噗 – more on this shortly) usually wrapped and served in a handmade popiah run bing (润饼).
So it is like a traditional Taiwanese fresh spring roll wrapped in a soft, thin rice flour crepe – a blinged burrito, but sweet!
The roll itself consists of just flour, water and salt – plus some stalls serve a combination or taro and / or vanilla ba pu (the vanilla colour is sometimes achieved by using egg yolk or pineapple).
Some famous stalls have even experimented with new and unusual ice-cream roll flavors like Taiwanese tea or red bean.
The Taiwan ice-cream roll stall holders usually shave a huge brick of peanut and caramel brittle right in front of you to put in the wrap – so watching this dessert being prepared is great fun.
The tastes are sweet, nutty and salty, whilst the texture is creamy and crunchy – coriander is also a strange and optional ingredient to add to the mix but is highly recommended!
Often the stall holders will ask if you want the roll cut in two which makes it easier to share – but also note the ice-cream melts quickly on hot days – so that is a great excuse to eat it quickly.
Incidentally, despite the name, it isn’t always ice-cream in ice-cream rolls. Traditionally it’s ba pu 叭噗 / babu which is a Taiwanese non dairy product that contains starch or tapioca as a thickener. The name is an onomatopoeia, said to derive from the honking noise the ice-cream cart horns used to make when trying to attract customers.
To coriander or not coriander
A lot of people in our Taiwan Travel Tips (TTT) Facebook group say they love peanut ice-cream rolls but they hate the cilantro so make sure it isn’t added – it is one of the best bits of the dessert if you ask us!
To that, we say “Qing duo jia xiangcai” (請多加香菜) – or ‘extra coriander’.
History of Taiwan peanut ice-cream rolls
Now a popular snack in Taiwan and also overseas, these delightful dessert wraps can often be found at key tourism sites like Jiufen Old Street and Shifen Old Street, sold all year round. But where did they come from?
The true origins of Taiwan peanut ice-cream rolls have never really been confirmed but some say it originated from Yilan at the turn of the 20th century during Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan.
However, savory versions of run bing (with pork and cabbage instead of ice-cream) have been around for hundreds of years.
Over the years, the classic ice-cream roll has remained a popular snack and some high-end restaurants have even created luxury versions like the Michelin Starred Mountain and Sea House in Taipei’s Zhongzheng District.
Taiwan ice cream corn puffs and chewy candy bar
Such an iconic Taiwan snack, we even discovered Taiwanese peanut ice-cream roll and coriander flavored corn puffs / Kaui Kaui Puffs.
We love spotting unusual potato chip and corn puff flavors in Taiwan and have eaten everything from Taiwan Century Egg Doritos to extraordinary local flavors like pineapple cake potato chips and Kuai Kuai coffee corn puffs!
Kuai Kuai / Guai Guai 乖乖 Taiwan coconut puffs are very famous, but these Kuai Kuai coriander ice-cream roll corn puffs are peak Taiwan – and sadly limited edition, available at Taiwan FamilyMart convenience stores.
There is also a chewy candy bar version of the dessert – the 77 Nougat Chocolate Coriander Peanut Roll that you can find in convenience stores.
This snack went viral earlier in 2026, and combines a chewy nougat core with peanuts and an aromatic hit of coriander.
Famous Taiwan ice-cream stalls / where to buy it
Taiwan night markets are a popular place to buy ice-cream rolls as are the old streets of Jiufen and Shifen.
In Taipei, there are also several peanut ice-cream roll stalls in Tamsui plus Taipei night markets like Shilin Night Market and Raohe Night Market.
One of the most famous stalls is Jiufen’s A-Zhu Peanut Ice-cream roll 阿珠雪在燒 (map) which charges NT$50 a piece and usually has a long (LONG) line. They use traditional babu non dairy inside their rolls so it is a vegan version.
We last visited Shilin Night Market (map) in Spring 2026 and it had a couple of Taiwanese ice-cream roll stalls. We had the peanut brittle and coriander burrito ice cream (peanut and vanilla flavoured ice cream scoops) for $70 NTD – so it is a bit more expensive than other stalls.
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