Our Neighbourhood Ice Cream Uncle
When I was still in primary school, there were two famous Ice Cream Uncles who sold ice creams and snacks from their motorcycles. We call them Uncle Matkool or Uncle Ice Cream . These ice cream uncles would do their businesses around our neighbourhood. They would ride around our parks, streets, blasting their Matkool songs every evening. I think mostly people of my age in my neighbourhood would recognise them. We would know they were around even when we couldn’t see them. It was all because of the music they played. “ Matkool, Matkool, kawanku. Mari kita ikut Matkool! Main-main selalu. Syoknya, syoknya ada Matkool! ” So there were two famous uncles who competed against each other every day for sales. They would usually park their motorcycles in front of our schools after school hours. These uncles would without fail, be surrounded by hungry school kids EVERY. SINGLE. DAY . Me? I was among these hungry kids too! 🤣 So, because there were two Ice Cream Uncles (usually), we differentiate ...