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Outside, under the warm April sunshine, groups of joyous African pilgrims in flashy head wraps ate gelato by the Bernini fountain, seagulls circling overhead.

Or the parfaits served at Kamebishi Co., one of Japan’s oldest soy sauce brewers, where soy sauce gelato melts into something creamy and briny, like a tide pool made decadent.

I would chase dim sum with a roasted Sicilian pistachio gelato at Pazzo Gelato in Silver Lake or shaved ice at Joy in Highland Park.

It involves indulging in dim sum and gelato, shopping for — what else? — food and hosting a casual potluck pizza party at home with friends.

He noticed water from the roof — likely from firefighters trying to preserve the strip mall — had pooled onto the kitchen floor and some spilled on his gelato machines, likely ruining them.