Ducky Ice Cream & Drinks is an ice cream shop at Shop 27, Hunters Plaza, 217 Great South Road, Papatoetoe, Auckland, with a 4.1 rating on Google. A good ice cream shop lives or dies on freshness: cream churned in small batches has a denser texture and cleaner flavour than tubs that have sat refreezing, where icy crystals give the game away. It is worth asking what is made on site and trying a small scoop of anything unusual before committing to two. In a shopping-plaza setting these shops trade as a walk-up stop — something cold for kids after school, shoppers between errands, and anyone dodging an Auckland heatwave with a scoop or a cold drink in hand. Tucked inside Hunters Plaza on Great South Road, Ducky gives Papatoetoe a handy place to end a shopping trip on a sweet note.