street parking nearby. Gallo’s Grill 4533 Cesar Chavez Blvd. (about 3 blocks east of the 710) East LA If you’re still hungry afterwards, there’s the raspados (mexican snow cone) place or the live chicken place around...

am happy to report that Raspados Zacatecas is still just as good as ever. This place (located at 422 N. Ford Blvd., in East LA, 323/264-7651) makes a sort of snow cone out of crushed ice and their own, homemade syrups, which have...

funnel cakes churros snow cones

What is Shave ice? Is it like a snow cone?

Odd request, I know, but does anyone know a service station or convenience store around downtown that serves Slush Puppies? I used to LOVE them as a kid. I know there is a snow cone stand on South Lamar, but I’m specifically...

with molds that you have to freeze the ice in – good sized cylinders, maybe 4 inches in diameter. The blade would then rotate around that disk of ice. I was pretty happy with the shaved ice from it – nice and fluffy,...

while wandering Old San Juan (which is very compact and perfect for wandering) stop at a stand for a piragua, like a snow cone.

JoJo’s sucked. The blades were dull so the shave ice had too much of a snow cone texture. Sadly, the shave ice I’ve had in Delaware was better. Maybe it was just an off day.

to share! I went conservative: pina colada syrup, condensed milk, a scoop of Christina’s passion fruit sorbet for maybe $2.75? The shaved ice isn’t like a snow cone, the texture is more like moist cotton candy. Now...

It’s not water ice but there’s a decent snow cone stand in a parking lot on South Lamar at Heather. It’s usually parked here:...

I don’t mean snowballs, snow cones, or the like... I mean Asian shave ice, with options like sweet beans and coconut milk. The only source I knew around here was i.Cream in Rockville, which looked to be permanently closed...

Being a Canuck, I’d be extremely curious to hear what constitutes a “Canadian” baked good. Do they mix moose and/or beaver into their pastries? Do they serve snow cones?

One thing I can tell you is the Lappert’s in Hermosa Beach makes standard, American style snow cones, and not very good ones at that, and calls them shave ice. (Grammatically surprising, I know, but traditionally, I think...

deep fried fish we had, found it to be excellent. All sorts of bizarre ice cream/ snow cone type desserts. Very reasonably priced.

worth driving a couple of hours to Smithfield for: HILLS of SNOW SNO-CONES Sno-cones so good they’re like Aliens came down from Outer-space to save us and brought them for us, Sno-cones so good that the Saints in Heaven...