A restaurant in Taiwan is dishing up lifelike ice cream puppies

Puppy-crazed customers are flocking to a restaurant in Taiwan that serves ice cream that looks almost too real to eat.

J.C. Co Art Kitchen in the southern city Kaohsiung has been serving the ice cream creations that resemble lifelike Shar-Pei puppies for about a month.

They take about five hours to make and come in chocolate, milk tea or peanut-flavored ice cream.

Employees use special molds, and a recipe that creates a hairy-looking frost on top of the ice cream.

The ice cream pups first have to free at minus 22 degrees before they are given a final touch of chocolate to add more features.

“I feel sorry for him, because he has been made to look very lifelike,” customer Miu Hsu told Reuters in Chinese. “It is as if a real dog is lying here. And I feel like cutting into him will hurt him, I feel a bit sorry.”

Patrons can show down on a small ones for about $3.50, or a big one for around $5.90.

Thanks to social media, the restaurant is struggling to keep up with demand as they can only make a 100 per day.