Frozen Frenzy Real Fruit Ice Cream is an ice cream van on the Esplanade at St Clair, Dunedin, holding a 4.6 rating from five Google reviews. Reviewers note that it appears somewhat irregularly, so a quick check of its Facebook page before setting out is sensible.
Real fruit ice cream is a New Zealand specialty: frozen fruit is fed into a machine with hard ice cream and churned on the spot into a soft swirl flecked with berry or banana. Part of the appeal is watching it made, and the flavour shifts with whatever fruit is in season. Beachfront vans trade on weather and foot traffic rather than fixed hours, so locals learn to check the van's posts before making the trip.
Catch it on a good day and a freshly churned fruit ice cream is hard to beat on St Clair's beachfront, with the surf rolling in along the Esplanade.