When I was a little kid, I loved things like apples, American cheese, milk, playing with dirt, and eating boogers. I also despised stuff such as onions, peppers, reading, chick flicks, and rice pudding. My how times have changed. I now can’t stand fruit, American cheese, milk, getting dirty, and well, I certainly don’t eat boogers anymore. Yet, on the other foot, I love onions and peppers to death, I’m a big book worm, and chick flicks are still terrible. That leaves us with rice pudding.

Rice To Riches’ menu consists entirely of ride pudding.

This is the true test. And to tell you the truth, I actually haven’t even eaten rice pudding in eons. I was heavily persuaded to go and decided to keep an open mind. The place itself was very welcoming. A “futuristic decor” along with  funny jargons and jokes plastered to the walls, windows, and doors, was very fun.

The rice pudding has silly names such as Sex Drugs and Rocky Road, Take Me To Tiramisu, Fluent In French Toast, and a slew of others.

Not knowing what the hell some of these flavors are, you are allowed to sample many different puddings before you make your final pick.

My choice: Chocolate Chip Flirt which is basically chocolate chip rice pudding.

And can honestly say, I can scratch it off the list of things I don’t like. I’m a changed man and now very much like rice pudding now. Soo much lighter than true pudding with a twinge of a chunkiness. The chocolate was top notch. Thanks Rice To Riches for changing me into a rice pudding liker.

For one dollar more you can add a topping.

Once again, the choices have creative names such as Remedy (caramel vanilla sauce), Flourish (toasted buttery pound cake), Heart Throb (tender loving jelly), and others. To top my Chocolate Chip Flirt I chose Mischief (buttery graham cracker blanket). It indeed was buttery. It was indeed graham cracker perfection. A perfect blend to the rice pudding.

The rice pudding is served in different sized dishes from Solo (serves one) all the way to Moby (serves 10). The moby is seriously the size of a bucket. I could fit my head in this thing. That’s a lot of rice pudding! The dishes are so rad looking, one would be crazy not to wash this sucker out and use it at home to keep (I did).

I never thought I’d like rice pudding, but Rice To Riches made a believer out of me. So good.

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Rice To Riches

37 Spring Street

New York, NY 10012

www.ricetoriches.com

Prices: Solo $6, Epic $7.75, Moby $40, Toppings $1

Hours: Sun-Wed 11am-11pm, Thu-Sat 11am-12am

Access: 6 Train To Spring Street; R,W To Prince Street; B,D,F,V Trains To Broadway/Lafayette; J,M Trains To Bowery

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