A Hong Kong ice cream truck in Vancouver? Watt A Truck brings the city’s flavours to Canada

A Hong Kong ice cream truck in Vancouver? Watt A Truck brings the city’s flavours to Canada



In Vancouver, people hear the music first – “The Blue Danube” by Johann Strauss II – then see a red, white and blue patterned truck pulling up shortly after.

As impossible as it may seem, that can mean only one thing for people from Hong Kong – a Mister Softee truck is in town. Or is it?
Although it is not the same beloved ice cream dispenser – renamed Mobile Softee in 2010 – found in Hong Kong, Watt A Truck looks remarkably similar and offers nostalgic soft-serve ice cream.

“We wanted the truck to look like the Hong Kong truck; otherwise, there’s no point,” says co-founder Wayne Poon Wing-tai, 35, who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 2009.




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