The mango bing fad in which Ice Monster and Hui Lau Shan are the leading players might be seen as a war, but that is not the metaphor preferred by Samuel Chen. Chen, the boss at Royal Sweets, says rather that these two operations are the pickets in the first skirmishes of the import fruit wars that are a consequence of Taiwan's entry into the WTO.
由「冰館」與「許留山」引領風騷的芒果冰風潮，讓也即將與元祖食品合作廣開連鎖的「清宮御廚」老闆陳玉山形容，根本不像冰品大戰，簡直就是台灣加入 WTO 後開放水果進口的「水果前哨戰」。