The newest treat in College Park started in Thai street food stalls: rolled ice cream.
Class520, which officially opened Dec. 1 at 3711 Campus Dr., sells a trendy form of ice cream made fresh in front of you.
Instead of being scooped from a tub, the liquid base for Thai ice cream is poured onto a ultra-cold metal plate, where it is churned with knives until it freezes. The flattened ice cream is then scraped off, forming little rolls of ice cream.
As with frozen yogurt shops, the ice cream is then topped with Nilla wafers, fresh fruit, gummy bears, Fruity Pebbles or hot fudge, among other options.
The eatery, which is owned by two women, Samantha Wang and Vivian Chen, and is next to the new Ruah hot yoga pop-up studio that recently opened, also sells classic Thai iced tea, fruit teas and its own specialty drinks, like the Genji, made with red guava, green apple and Sprite, served in light-bulb shaped glasses.
Co-0wner Wang told the Hyattsville Wire their hours are 12-9 p.m. seven days a week, but they would be looking to stay open until later starting in February.
The College Park location joins other locations in Fairfax and Springfield in Virginia and Rockville and Bethesda in Maryland. It also joins a number of other new Asian restaurants that have recently opened in College Park.