TL;DR: This super-simple electric shaved ice maker from Hawaiian Shaved Ice is on sale for $34.99, saving you $24.96.
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Here are the best frozen dessert makers you can buy:Best overall: Yonanas Classic Healthy Frozen Dessert MakerBest ice cream machine: Cuisinart ICE-30R Pure Indulgence Ice Cream MakerBest shaved ice maker: Hawaiian Shaved Ice S900 Shaved Ice MachineBest frozen drink maker: Margaritaville Bahamas Frozen Concoction MakerBest fun dessert maker: Yaylabs!
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Currently being tested in Portland and Bangor, Maine, and West Palm Beach, Florida, Dunkin's Caramel Shaved Ice Espresso features shaved ice topped espresso shots, caramel swirl and whipped cream.
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Doesn't matter how powerful you are ... shaved ice is delicious.
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I worked with a single mom at the shaved-ice stand.
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Don't miss the shaved ice with a rainbow of fruits and jellies.
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Front Burner You may be familiar with refreshing flavored Taiwanese shaved ice.
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A complex Japanese shaved ice dessert called kakigori has evolved over centuries.
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His halo-halo dessert uses coconut sorbet in place of shaved ice.
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On a typical day, I make more than 300 shaved ice cones.
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Bing su, or patbingsu, is a traditional shaved ice dessert popular in Korea.
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They'll be passing out free shaved ice from their trucks on April 17.
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And in Maine and Florida, customers are trying out Caramel Shaved Ice Espresso.
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My job at the shaved-ice stand has nothing to do with creativity.
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There were piragua carts with multicolored umbrellas selling shaved ice on every corner.
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You don't have to wait for the food truck or a local carnival just to buy an overpriced snow cone: The electric shaved ice machine from the boss itself, Hawaiian Shaved Ice, is on sale for just $34.99 at Amazon.
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We also ordered something you can't get: shaved ice with mango and ice cream.
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In this edition, we hit the audition circuit under the influence of shaved ice.
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The Filipino shaved ice halo-halo is heaped with toppings including chickpeas in syrup.
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And it is among the few to serve kakigori, a mountain of shaved ice.
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By 2006, Lamb decided to turn that obsession into a shaved ice franchise, Kona Ice.
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The company, which believes in "no taxation without relaxation," is giving away free shaved ice.
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Cap off the visit with the bing-su, a Korean shaved ice, mixed with Oreos.
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This time it is a syrup poured over shaved ice and sprinkled with lucuma foam.
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Prez Obama continues his cost-cutting initiatives by sharing a cup of shaved ice with Malia.
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Visitors will also be able to sample Japanese kakigōri shaved-ice snacks provided by Daikaya restaurant.
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Shaved ice with a drizzle of bright syrup can take dessert out for a holiday spin.
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That's right, he began to test out a shaved ice franchise in the middle of a recession.
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" The truck's shaved ice flavors range from "Tiger's Blood" (which tastes like fruit punch) to "Wedding Cake.
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We try shaved ice for the first time, which is like the snow cone's older, cooler brother.
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The cake and cupcakes were vegan, and we offered the shaved ice as a gluten-free dessert.
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Their Thai-style shaved ice with candied basil seeds is also extremely refreshing on a hot day.
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In the warmer months, he sells raspados (shaved ice) with pulpy syrups that he makes from scratch.
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To keep candidates cool on a muggy morning, Amazon handed out free shaved ice treats and bottled water.
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Yelp users also recommend the shop's mangonada, a sweet and spicy shaved ice drink made with mango sorbet.
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The result was more like shards of shaved ice that left people soaked in a matter of minutes.
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In Kent, Washington, a vendor offered free cups of shaved ice from a truck playing steel-drum music.
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This picture shows what we'd call shaved ice today: a man selling scraped ice, with some flavors available.
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G. wants ice cream, but the closest thing we find is raspado made with shaved ice and condensed milk.
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Today: a teacher who makes $2129,2129 per year and spends some of her money this week on shaved ice.
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We get a giant Bingsu to share, which is shaved ice, condensed milk, mango chunks, and soy bean powder.
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I'm talking about a bowl of shaved ice drizzled with palm sugar syrup (), coconut milk, and other colorful toppings.
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Chocolate shaved ice, $5, Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolate, 43 West 42nd Street (Avenue of the Americas), 212-201-1985, kreutherchocolate.com.
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Front Burner For shaved ice at home, nothing is more engagingly adorable — or effective — than this bright Japanese bear.
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Today, the Lambs have 700 locations In 46 states including a few in Hawaii, where shaved ice is very popular.
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It's also filling, unlike other healthy alternatives like cauliflower, which can sometimes have the aura of plant-based shaved ice.
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There will be also be pretzel buns, cookies, shaved ice made by the students, and cold brew from Joe Coffee.
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Long story short: In some cases, you're better off using a shaved-ice machine to make dessert or your next cocktail.
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From Taiwanese shaved ice to Hong Kong waffles, all the food somehow resembles feces, according to the cafe's Facebook page. Yum.
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Shaved ice is also lower in calories than traditional ice cream and dessert options, and caters to ever health-conscious consumers.
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Because "there is no taxation without relaxation," the shaved ice company has re-named Tax Day as National Chill Out Day.
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Snowdays, a Taiwanese shaved ice chain with locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, doesn't have a branch in Flushing or Elmhurst.
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The kind of spot regular people stroll by, and can even pop into the shaved ice shop and cafes at its base.
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We also rented a shaved-ice stand for the second dessert during the reception, since our only other dessert was wedding cake.
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The spot is more known for its pastries and shaved ice, but I was optimistic that I'd still find arancini in sauce.
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In keeping with its rallying cry of "No taxation without relaxation," Kona Ice trucks will hand out free shaved ice on Tuesday.
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Feeling defeated by poor planning, we consoled ourselves by sharing a heaping cup of coconut shaved ice from a nearby food truck.
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I started at a shaved-ice stand when I turned 15, so I could begin saving up for a car and clothes.
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Ice cream and frozen drinks are great in summer, but everyone can admit that a rainbow shaved ice is on another level.
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Diane runs a seasonal mobile business called Sno-To-Go, selling shaved ice, and plans to open a stand-alone store this March.
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At a canoeing event in Tokyo in early September, organizers tried to cool spectators with shaved ice, but the experiment left fans soaked.
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But elaborate frozen desserts are nothing new in Asia: Fluffy shaved ice was first mentioned in Japanese literature about a thousand years ago.
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Thanks Nature Cafe's version of patbingsu is the classic shaved ice milk topped with red bean paste, roasted bean powder, and red bean mochi.
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Slusheeland, a dessert shop that specializes in fruit slushies, yogurt shakes, and shaved ice, has a new item on its menu called Mango Loco.
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Entertainment plays out on a three-mile-long boardwalk, with street performers, shaved ice and salt water taffy vendors and a small amusement park.
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Though you can make them with regular ice and they'll still be amaaazing, freezing carbonated water makes for a super fluffy, shaved ice-like texture.
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You really can't tell what the origins of halo-halo are, because there are a lot of cultures that have shaved ice as a dessert.
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The Caramel Espresso Granita features lightly sweetened shaved ice with esporsso shots, cream and caramel drizzle, for those who still need a little afternoon caffeine boost.
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"I love the smell there and I have really good memories of being there with my kids and I also love rainbow shaved ice," she says.
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First up, Starbucks' new granitas will be available in three flavors, and feature finely-shaved ice that is then topped off with espresso, white tea or lemonade.
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Lauren Rose, 19 (White) - McRoberts, Ky. Shaved ice stand employee, intern at media nonprofit In my hometown McRoberts, there aren't a lot of options for summer jobs.
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Caramel Espresso Granita The Teavana Youthberry White Tea Granita is a blend of white tea, pineapple, acai, hibiscus that's added to a scoop of lemonade-flavored shaved ice.
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Traditional ice kachang is a good place to start, as is red ruby (shaved ice with coconut milk and jellied water chestnuts) or aloe vera sea coconut ice.
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If Marie Antoinette wanted a frosty cone of shaved ice, she might have turned to Marc Aumont, the executive pastry chef at Gabriel Kreuther and Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolate.
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His crystalline chocolate shaved ice, worthy of Versailles, comes piled in a coupe or cup (dine in or take out) and glossed with raspberry, mango or praline sauce.
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" Over the past few years, winners have included barbecue joints in New York, drive-ins in Montana, shaved ice in New Orleans, and a "quintessential Maryland crab house.
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So Ruen Pair had this poster of a dessert up on the wall, called 'The Sweetie,' and it looked like shaved ice with jellies and I thought, That's perfect.
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There was barbecue, Chick-fil-A, funnel cakes, shaved ice and plenty of beer for parents who sought refuge in the shade as their kids frolicked in bouncy houses.
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This year, Obama added a new activity to his normal routine of golf, hiking, shaved ice and dining out: a "breakout" strategy simulation game with his daughters and their friends.
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Whether that is true or a myth, for us Mexicans, it's worth the risk to enjoy a refreshing shaved ice with neon-colored lime-flavored syrup every now and then.
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Dunkin' will be releasing several other cold and frozen beverages at the end of March including Dunkin' Energy Punch Powered by Monster Energy, Caramel Shaved Ice Espresso and Fruited Teas.
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There are two options for dessert: a mille-feuille laced with ginger syrup and sandwiching chestnut cream (left), and shaved ice seasoned with pear, red wine, cinnamon, and jujube jam.
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The salty-sweet-sour trifecta is a trademark of Filipino food, whether in rich dishes like adobo or spring-roll-like lumpia, or desserts like the shaved-ice halo-halo.
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In addition to Smurf puddings, cookies and doughnuts from other stores, a Korean dessert shop has recreated its shaved ice bing su dessert to look like soil in a Smurf garden.
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In the pool area, guests can cool down with avocado shaved ice and at the hotel's bar, they can booze it up with avo beverages like the avocado and piña colada martini.
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Caviar for the holidays, yes, but not rolled in on the proper silver cart, with the glittering shaved ice, the warm blini tucked in the white napkin, the mother-of-pearl spoons.
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And by meal's end: halo-halo, a goblet of shaved ice topped with ube (purple yam) ice cream and, better yet, ube halaya, a deeper purple and halfway between jam and pudding.
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The cafeteria sells bibimbap and bulgogi, a traditional Korean beef dish, as well as jalapeño octopus and patbingsu, a heap of sweets — fruits, syrups, condensed milk and sweet beans — atop shaved ice.
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Pam and Gary Sample had been running a mobile catering business for 15 years when, in 2009, they met Tony Lamb, president of Kona Ice, a national franchise featuring flavored shaved-ice dessert trucks.
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The beverage comes in three flavors, including a bold Espresso, which offers a wake-you-up taste with a scoop of lightly sweetened finely-shaved ice, a splash of cream and a caramel drizzle.
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While every vendor will make their ice kacang differently, you're probably going to get some combination of shaved ice, colorful fruity syrup, coconut or condensed milk, sweet corn, kidney beans, jelly cubes, and lychee.
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And the lip balm might make you ditch your full-coverage lipstick forever; the hibiscus extracts leave behind a sheer, deep-red stain that looks like you've been eating cherry flavored shaved ice all day.
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Many of these—such as Rice & Ice, a fast-casual eatery hawking fried rice and shaved ice, and Rau Răm, an Asian-fusion joint serving pork belly sliders and bánh xèo tacos—focus on food.
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Many of these—such as Rice & Ice, a fast-casual eatery hawking fried rice and shaved ice, and Rau Răm, an Asian-fusion joint serving pork belly sliders and bánh xèo tacos—focus on food.
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From Thursday through Sunday, the latest store from this Japanese chain will be serving free red, white and blue shaved ice from Bonsai Kakigori, the dessert shop that recently opened on the Lower East Side.
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The snowy shavings are layered with caramel, whipped cream and melting bits of fragrant jellied coffee, Earl Grey tea or matcha, in a lush new variation on ancient Japanese kakigori (shaved ice) and modern Japanese parfaits.
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She also makes cool emerald-green pearls of pandan tapioca and coconut-milk shaved ice, infused with enough jasmine to affect your dreams; cantaloupe balls and white sheets of fresh young coconut are dropped on top.
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It came to Hawaii by way of sugar plantation laborers from Okinawa and other parts of Japan, where eating kakigori — the Japanese term for sweetened shaved ice — dates back to the royal families of the Heian period.
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" Despite the festival-like atmosphere, with people eating flavored shaved ice and snapping up T-shirts, model tanks and military-themed cookies at souvenir stands, Mr. Ishihara's wife, Takako, 49, said the exercises felt "like a real battle.
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They once walked this boardwalk, eating shaved ice and posing for selfies, but fled at the first sign of commercial depreciation, abandoning it all to indigence and petty crime, and, at last, to the King of Retired Amusements.
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It isn't like Sonic dumped dill pickle juice straight on top of a pile of shaved ice — although we might try that next time we finish a jar of pickles in one siting, as we are want to do.
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Coronas and Pacificos can be delivered for $2 each, families whiz by in rented ATVs, terrified kids take their first ride on horses, hawkers come by with everything from candy to clothes to shaved ice to massive fucking iguanas.
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Ice cream innovators have figured out how to swirl a tutu of cotton candy around a cone of soft serve, shape ice into pleats and turn a baby watermelon into a bowl for shaved ice, watermelon balls and meringues.
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Ernest Hansen, a Crescent City machinist by trade, patented the first shaved ice mechanism during the Great Depression after watching a sweaty sno-ball vendor prepare his offerings by hand with wood-shaving equipment, a process Hansen found a tad unsanitary.
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Mr. Afzelius has the very good idea of putting coconut sorbet where the shaved ice would usually go; from there he goes to town with coconut jellies and what seems like every fresh fruit he can put his hands on.
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There is one more treat, at least for now: ais kacang, shaved ice plumped by evaporated milk and palm sugar syrup and buried under red beans, sweet corn, peanuts, tendrils of green jelly and palm seeds as fat as tears.
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There is one more treat, at least for now: ais kacang, shaved ice plumped by evaporated milk and palm sugar syrup and buried under red beans, sweet corn, peanuts, tendrils of green jelly and palm seeds as fat as tears.
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You've probably already heard a warning that shaved ice from the street is made with tap water and that you should avoid it like the plague if you don't want to get a case of explosive diarrhea or a terrible stomach infection.
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A parade of dishes began to arrive from the kitchen: raw oysters, razor clams, and scallops on shaved ice; crackly brown croquettes stuffed with "smoked meat," the Montreal cousin to pastrami; tender tripe in a fragrant consommé; rosy slabs of roast beef.
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Later in the year, inspired by the surrounding Mexican restaurants in Los Angeles, he made horchata kakigori, spooning rice pudding into the bottom of each bowl, and squirting the shaved ice with coffee syrup and a strong cold brew made with horchata.
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Only in Queens, too, on this strip known as Little Manila for its population of Filipino immigrants, will you find Jollibee's halo-halo, feathery shaved ice under orbs of ube (purple yam) and jackfruit ice cream and a tilting block of leche flan.
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But that is the way of the Taiwanese: Everyone, from the most lauded local chef to the lowliest cab driver, has an opinion on the best place to get delicacies like pineapple cake, shaved ice, gua bao buns, and beef noodle soup.
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The beach is just a 10-minute walk from downtown Kailua, where you can pick up snacks for a picnic on the beach at places like Whole Foods, or grab a serving of a local favorite, shaved ice with colorful syrup, at Island Snow.
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Still, Americans have caught a glimpse of them at special times such as when the president pardons the Thanksgiving turkey and his daughters laugh at his jokes, or when the family is on vacation in Hawaii and stops for a treat of shaved ice.
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The first of two Margaritas to make the top 10, mezcalaria Cantina OK's version is made with tequila and mezcal procured by the owners on their travels through Mexico, served over a mountain of shaved ice from an eye-catching bright yellow, hand-cranked machine.
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Make perfectly smooth shaved ice, slushies, or margaritas for the adults in a few simple steps: Just thaw your ice for a few minutes, put it in crusher cup, get the motor in position, and press down to shave a mountain of fluffy snow.
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Shaved ice has steadily been transformed by new ingredients and in new places: milk tea in Malaysia, bananas in Hawaii, grated ube (purple yam) in the Philippines (and in Brooklyn, where Ube Kitchen piles sundaes of frozen ube in dragon fruit bowls at two Smorgasburg food markets).
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"A lot of the new little shops selling buns, fried chicken, bubble tea and shaved ice are in college towns," she said, beyond Asian-American enclaves where the shops are also thriving, like the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California, the Bay Area and New York City's three Chinatowns.
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Because of the heat, the 2,000 or so construction workers at the site of the new National Stadium — the central venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo — are getting an extra half-hour for their lunch breaks, and free bottles of water, sports drinks and shaved ice.
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Miranda plays the owner of a shaved-ice dessert stand, while Anthony Ramos — a veteran of Miranda's smash "Hamilton" as well as the most recent film version of "A Star Is Born" — takes over the composer's original lead role as Usnavi, a bodega owner in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan.
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Hawker stalls usually sell local favorites such as chicken rice, char kway teow (fried flat noodles), rojak (mixed fruit salad with prawn paste), laksa and chendol (coconut milk with palm sugar syrup, kidney beans and grass jelly) and ice kacang (shaved ice with sweet syrup, sweet corn and fruit), usually for just a few dollars per meal.
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Fans love menu items like Fiesta Noodles (a recreation of "pancit palabok," a noodle dish with toppings like shrimp, ground meat and hard-boiled eggs); Breakfast Joy Corned Beef (served with garlic rice and a fried egg); and for dessert, peach and Filipino mango pie or Halo-Halo (a concoction of shaved ice, ube and jackfruit ice cream, leche flan and jellies).
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Now, speaking of social media, do take a few minutes to read Julia Moskin's article about how pretty frozen treats from Asia – Thai ice cream rolls, Korean-style honey soft-serve, Hong Kong egg waffle sundaes, Japanese parfaits, Chinese ice cream-filled buns, Taiwanese bubble tea floats and Filipino and Indonesian shaved ice – are proliferating in American sweet shops right now, as much to be photographed as to be eaten.
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More specifically, the roast chicken is Filipino manok relleno; the ice cream is inspired by a combination of Filipino Halo Halo and Hawaiian shaved ice, and covered in Pop Rocks; the bacon is Tennessee's Benton's bacon stir fried with Korean rice cakes freshly made in Queens; the beef brisket is served as "beef and broccoli" with homemade oyster sauce; the wings are Chongqing style and covered with Tianjin chilies and numbing Sichuan peppercorn; the ribs have a Chengdu-style cumin lamb flavor, but are covered in Indian fennel candy; the fried chicken is marinated in koji (Japanese rice mold) and served with a yuzu kosho inspired sauce, but made with fermented Hatch green chilies and—one of my favorite easy-to-make North African/Moroccan pantry items—preserved lemon.
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