You may be surprised to know that people in cold climates love ice cream. ALLAN KOAY speaks to a Malaysian selling ice cream in Britain for the cold facts

SELLING ice cream in a moderate country might be a bit like selling a refrigerator to an Eskimo. But yes, people do get pleasure from good ice cream there, even in winter. Siti Roha Ramli knows that very well. She has been selling ice cream in Britain for more than three years. It sounds like a really fun job and Roha admits it is, although the hours she works during the summer months are "crazy." not her intention to sell ice cream in a foreign country. Her first and foremost concern was to see the world before she hit the big three-o.

"I went to Britain in 2002 because I wanted to travel," Roha explained in an interview in Kuala Lumpur recently. "And the government had this Commonwealth citizens' working holiday visa for those aged 17 to 30. At that time, I was almost 30 and I thought if I didn't take that opportunity, then I would never get another chance. I just had to grab it."

After spending some time travelling to Manchester, and then to London and other places, she ran out of cash, and the only thing missing to do was to put her working holiday visa to full use.

"So, I had to look for a job. I came across this advertisement on the Internet and called this mobile ice cream company, Yorkshire Dales Ice Cream Retail. They asked me to go to this little town called Skipton. The owner has his vans at all the local tourist attractions such as the castles, the priories and the camping sites. He asked me to go along and see if I would like it. It was April and we went to the Yorkshire Dale National Park. It was so beautiful! It was then that I decided to work for them."