Oohlalah Icecream is an ice cream shop at 189 Motutara Rd in Muriwai, Gisborne, and it carries a flawless 5.0 rating from Google reviewers. A good small-town ice cream shop lives and dies by freshness: ice cream churned in small batches holds less air than factory tubs, so the texture is denser and the flavour comes through properly. Flavours tend to follow the seasons, with real fruit when berries and stone fruit peak and richer things like hokey pokey as the weather cools. It pays to ask what is made on site and to taste before choosing, since a shop confident in its scoops will happily oblige. Regulars also know to arrive early on hot summer afternoons, when the popular flavours run out first. For a small coastal settlement like Muriwai, having a scoop shop this well loved on Motutara Road gives locals and passers-through a proper reason to stop.