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This summer, were giving ice pops, raspas, snow cones, and more a taste. By Gwendolyn Knapp and Timothy Malcolm 5/31/2021 at 6:00am Published in the Summer 2021 issue of Houstonia Since 2016, Jonathan Delgado has turned out the hits seasonally (February–October) with refreshing all-natural ice pops—strawberry lemonade, passion-guava-mango, and banana pudding with wafers. Some, like the raspa and snow cone, are perfectly throwback, best enjoyed in a parking lot in your car with ...

Everyone loves Italian ice, but transplants from up North will tell you its mature sibling gelati—which has soft-serve custard blended into it—is the one to pine for. At Rita’s, a Philly company that popularized its hometown Italian ice, also called water (ahem, wooder) ice, the gelati comes in lots of flavor combinations, though the cherry ice with vanilla custard is primo. If you’re really feeling it, you can also call the gelati by its preferred Philly nomenclature: a ra...

One problem that we may have, however, is that we dont amplify that assertion enough. and Im speaking about me specifically) dont do enough of the day-to-day work informing people about the treasures found at restaurants that identify as Asian. Its easy to say that Asian restaurants dont pay for the kind of PR that higher-profile restaurants get, and thus theyre not on our radar as often. But its more about general unfamiliarity with regionality, nuance, and context. Its about the idea...

$15.95. 2327 Post Oak Blvd. Fruit Addict Chè: Ch è trái cây, or Vietnamese dessert drink, of crushed ice, lychee, longan, jackfruit, red tapioca, pandan jelly, palm seed, Jell-O, coconut milk. A square meal in a cup! $5.50. Multiple locations

Craving dessert but thirsty for an adult beverage (and maybe a jolt of caffeine, too)? The Burger Joint’s 8th Wonder Rocket Fuel Shake utilizes the eponymous brewery’s Vietnamese coffee porter as a base for a drink that’s thick as a brick and made with your choice of ice cream. 2703 Montrose Blvd. and 2002 N. Shepherd Dr. –Joanna OLeary With so many flavor combinations and specialties on the menu, slow down and consider this: We are simply blessed to live in a city that has...

Trust the chef to put his unique spin on the expected. By Timothy Malcolm 5/19/2021 at 12:54pm Scarlet Moon at Kanau Sushi. Sushi restaurant menus can look pretty similar. Yellowtail and spicy pepper crudo, as popularized by chef Nobu Matsuhisa? Check. Basic salmon- and tuna-based maki rolls? Check, plus a few specialty rolls probably named after where Im eating them. These days Ill look for words like uni, wagyu, and karaage, necessary things to have in the age of hype-eating. It feels a...

Whether Nashville hot or naked, these are our poultry picks. By Timothy Malcolm 5/13/2021 at 11:54am Clutch City Cluckers is truly Houston, from the messy sandwiches to synthetic grass outside its food truck. Remember the whole Popeyes chicken sandwich thing? Remember how it captured everyones attention, and lines were around the block, and many stores ran out of ingredients, and it triggered a national fried chicken sandwich craze? That was a little less than two years ago. A lot has happened ...

Were going to say ... yes. By Timothy Malcolm 4/21/2021 at 12:21pm Trust us on this: These were briny as all get out. Blame it on living off of East Coast oysters for much of my life, but I was never a big fan of those from the Gulf Coast. They lacked saline. They felt like a boring, bland chore more than a relaxing and sumptuous experience.  Okay, I was wrong. Sorry. At least, I was wrong after enjoying half a dozen oysters at Pier 6 Seafood & Oyster House. The new San Leon restaurant...

You wont believe how much we paid for this experience. By Timothy Malcolm 4/13/2021 at 4:33pm The famous (infamous?) Fuku spicy chicken sandwich. Ask certain customers of David Changs trendy fried bird concept Fuku whether the chicken or the egg came first ... and they might just pelt you with a couple of large eggs. Fuku, originating in New York and blossoming nationwide with a delivery-only model—with food like fried chicken sandwiches being produced in local ghost facilities run by Reef...

What Were Ordering Out This Week: Barbecue Down by the Bay You have to drive a bit, but the meats are plenty worth it. By Timothy Malcolm 4/7/2021 at 12:39pm Since Covid-19 is still here and restaurants continue to stress alternative options to dining in, we’ll bring you each week a roundup of takeout meals recently enjoyed by dining editor Timothy Malcolm.  A packed platter from Smokin Zs BBQ. Smokin Zs BBQ Down by the bay in Hitchcock, just off Highway 6 before it meets up with I-45 e...