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Before Norie Uematsu became a pastry chef, she waited all year for shave-ice season at home in Japan. Now, she decides when that season begins and ends. At Cha-an Teahouse, in the East Village of New ...

Hawaiian shave ice, that delightful mix of cold ice shaved right off the block and doused in fruity syrups, has been somewhat out of reach in the East Bay. We’ve had our share of pop-ups over the ...

Ever thought about starting a shave ice business—even just a fleeting “that looks pretty easy” kind of impulse while standing in line for a cup of frozen water covered in your choice of delicious, ...

“Don’t worry, you’re on island time,” Brandy Lynn Ford tells me as I struggle. A hefty lilikoi shave ice maxes out the range of my tiny southpaw while my right hand fiddles with the phone in a clumsy ...