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 ...

Kakigori might be the best way to end a meal. There are versions of shaved ice from around the world, from piragua in Puerto Rico to Sno-balls in New Orleans, but there’s nothing quite like Japanese ...

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the Yakiniku Business Fair & Izakaya JAPAN venue. It can make shaved ice without preparing ice, so we were able to see in detail how it actually works. The Junyuki machine was on display at the ...

The sound of shaving ice is unmistakable. The rasp, first pressed into the ice block, tense as a spring, suddenly surfs across the berg, scraping up a spume of glittering white snow as stray flecks ...

Kakigori is a blank canvas for pastry chefs around the world. Ivan / Getty Images Kakigori might be the best way to end a meal. There are versions of shaved ice from around the world, from piragua in ...