In Vancouver, people hear the music first \u2013 \u201cThe Blue Danube\u201d by Johann Strauss II \u2013 then see a red, white and blue patterned truck pulling up shortly after.<\/p>\n
As impossible as it may seem, that can mean only one thing for people from Hong Kong \u2013 a Mister Softee truck<\/a> is in town. Or is it?Although it is not the same beloved ice cream dispenser \u2013 renamed Mobile Softee in 2010 \u2013 found in Hong Kong, Watt A Truck looks remarkably similar and offers nostalgic soft-serve<\/a> ice cream.<\/p>\n \u201cWe wanted the truck to look like the Hong Kong truck; otherwise, there\u2019s no point,\u201d says co-founder Wayne Poon Wing-tai, 35, who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 2009.<\/p>\n Poon says he and his business partners had considered launching a truck for some time. It took about a year to bring the idea to life and secure the necessary licences.<\/p>\n Watt A Truck made its debut in early May at the Vancouver Hong Kong Fair, an annual weekend event celebrating Hong Kong culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Vancouver, people hear the music first \u2013 \u201cThe Blue Danube\u201d by Johann Strauss II \u2013 then see…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[274936,114,245,274937,3448,274931,13910,85,46,274932,274933,274934,33819,274935],"class_list":["post-607336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aurelia-au-yan-yu","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-david-lam-park","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-mister-softee","tag-ice-cream","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mister-softee","tag-mobile-softee","tag-snackshot","tag-vancouver","tag-watt-a-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}