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4A ❚ WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2019 ❚ APPEAL TRIBUNE Life in the Valley 15 MUST-TRY FROZEN SALEM TREATS FOR SUMMER Strawberry Shortcake at Willamette Valley Pie Co. Emily Teel Salem Statesman Journal USA TODAY NETWORK Buttery cake, almost melting soft serve ice cream, and saucy strawber ries, few things taste more like summer as strawberry shortcake. There are plenty around, but the version at Wil lamette Valley Pie Company is available all summer long. Not into shortcake? They've got plenty of pie and cobbler options, too. Where: 2994 82nd Ave NE Phone: 5033628857 Information: wvpie.com It's officially summer, which means now's the time to get into vacation mode, even if work responsibilities, childcare, and the mundane details of life maintenance are as urgent as ever. To help inject a little of that summer va cation joy into businessasusual, here are 15 treats made in the Salem area to sweeten up these summer days. Churro Ice Cream Sandwich at Don Bigote A shiny black food truck that sets up under the awning at Fruteria La Cabana, Don Bigote specializes in crepes, milk shakes, and churros. Owners Oscar Rodriguez and Veronica Islas serve up an ice cream sandwich between to warm disks of justfried cinnamonsug ar dipped churros. It is as messy and ep ic as it sounds. They also offer — dream come true — a churro banana split. Where: 3390 Portland Road NE Phone: 5039904860 Information: Don Bigote (Facebook) Ice Cream Soda Floats at Half Baked Eats & Sweets A cookies and cream churro sandwich from Don Bigote's food truck in Salem on June 19, 2019. MICHAELA ROMÁN / STATESMAN JOURNAL Ice Cream Lasagna at On Any Sundae Mangonada at Lonchería y Antojitos El Perico You'll need at least one buddy to tack le a single slice of On Any Sundae's ice cream lasagna. It's three layers of waffle cone "lasagna" sheets with three layers (rotating flavors) of ice cream. Topped with chocolate shell and served with whipped cream, it's an absolute brick of sweetness. Can't manage it? Opt for one of the shop's many ice cream tacos in stead. Where: 3987 Commercial Street SE Phone: 5035886605 Information: On Any Sundae (Face book) If you're a chili fan and you've never tried a mangonada, you're in for a treat. A staple of summer in Mexico, a mango nada is a tall cup of mango slush sea soned with chamoy, a tangy, salty, spicy condiment made from pickled fruit. The slush is topped with cubes of sweet mango, seasoned with Tajín (chili lime salt) and served with a tamarindchili candycoasted straw. It's sweet, a little spicy and tangy in a way that is a perfect match to a 90°Fplus kind of day. Where: 114 Lancaster Drive NE Salem Phone: (503) 3641290 Information: Lonchería y Antojitos "El Perico" (Facebook) Aloha Shave Ice at Beehive Station A sweet little food cart with a surf board as a front counter, Aloha serves up Hawaiian shave ice. Almost snow like, it's light and fluffy and incredibly refreshing. Opt for classic, brightly col ored syrups, or, if you prefer something a little more subtle, the cart also offers a line of premium syrups made with real, often Oregongrown fruit. Where: 1510 Fabry Road S Phone: 9718082197 Information:Aloha Shave Ice (Face book) Waffle Cones at Dolce Mama's Aloha Shave Ice, a vendor at Beehive Station Food Pod, uses syrups made with real fruit to top epic mountains of frosty shave ice. EMILY TEEL/STATESMAN JOURNAL Halo Halo at Manila Fiesta and Nanay's Ba-Hi Halo Halo, which means "mix mix" is a sweet treat from the Philippines full of different colors and textures. The ver sion at food truck Nanay's BaHi in cludes a rainbow of different coconut jellies with jackfruit, topped with ube (purple sweet potato) ice cream, cubes of pineapple, and crumbled strawberry wafer cookies. The Manila Fiesta, a food cart at The Yard, serves a version that includes banana, sweet beans, and leche flan (caramel custard) on top. Nanay's Ba-Hi Where: location varies Phone: 5418702156 Information:Nanay's BaHi (Face book) The Manila Fiesta Where: 4106 State Street Phone: 5038819431 Information: themanilafiesta.com Dole Whip at On Any Sundae A dairyfree answer to soft serve ice cream, Dole Whip is made from pineap ple but has a fluffy, creamy texture. On Any Sundae always stocks the classic pineapple flavor and rotates through mango, lemon, orange, raspberry, strawberry, and lime versions as well. Enjoy it unadorned or as a float. Where: 3987 Commercial St SE Phone: 5035886605 While many Salem ice cream shops are buying their ice cream from Till amook or Cascade Glacier, Dolce Ma ma's makes their own using Oregon sourced ingredients. Pick the seasonal scoop of your choice (it's blueberry cheesecake ice cream season), and make sure to get it in one of the house made waffle cones. Thin and shattering ly crisp, it's these that give Dolce Ma ma's its sweet aroma. Where: 333 State Street Salem Phone: 5033857323 Information: dolcemamas.com Rolled Ice Cream at 22 Below Strawberry rolled ice cream with fruity pebbles is pictured at 22 Below in Salem on June 19, 2019. MICHAELA ROMÁN / STATESMAN JOURNAL Fronut at Street Sweets 1969 It's a doughnut. It's ice cream. A fro nut is a doughnut ice cream sandwich sundae. It comes with toppings and in endless flavor variations: s'mores, birthday cake, you get the idea. Get yourself one Street Sweets 1969, a food cart in a vintage travel trailer at The Yard. Where: 4106 State Street Phone: 9713325061 Information:Street Sweets 1969 (Facebook) Why stick to plain root beer? Tie dyed food truck Half Baked Eats & Sweets, which pops up regularly in Aumsville and Salem, makes floats with your choice of root beer, Coke, and strawberry kiwi, black cherry, grape or orange sodas, too. Plus, you can round out a float into a full meal with one of the truck's loaded grilled cheese sand wiches. Where: various locations Phone: 5035599921 Information: halfbakedeatsandsweets.com Information: On Any Sundae (Face book) Raspanieve at Paletería y Nevería El Paisanito Why choose between ice cream and shave ice when you could have both? Get a raspanieve at Paletería y Nevería El Paisanito, a seasonallyoperating ice cream shop in downtown Woodburn, and that's exactly what you'll get. Choose a fresh fruit to act as a base for your shave ice, sweetened with con densed milk, and then an ice cream fla vor to go on top. Served with a spoon, you can eat the ice cream first and then, as things get melty, sip the frosty deli ciousness through a straw. Where: 429 N Front Street, Wood burn Phone: 5039819087 Information:Paletería y Nevería El Paisanito (Facebook) Vegan Push Pops at The Space A throwback for sure, The Space is making vegan push pops! Available in three flavors: local strawberries, mango, and strawberryraspberrymango, these agavesweetened push pops are soyfree, nutfree, and glutenfree. Where: 1128 Edgewater St NW Phone: 9712083995 Information:spaceconcertclub.com Potted Plant Tea at Ibendoo Ramen Imagine bubble tea minus the boba. Ibendoo Ramen is serving something called potted plant tea. A Taiwanstyle bubble tea base topped with whipped cream, crushed Oreo cookies and a sprig of mint, the sweet drinks are meant to look like flowerpots with plants growing from the top. Where: 3405 Commercial Street SE Suite 150 Phone: 5039908012 Salem has no shortage of Thaistyle rolled ice cream spots, but 22 Below is our original. Founded in 2017 by a Mc Kay grad, the shop now has three loca tions, the Salem original and one each in Tigard and Portland. Build your own fla vor combination because, well, they're going to make it on the spot so you might as well get a custom experience. Over whelmed? 22 Below also offers an ex tensive menu of suggestions. Bonus: because the ice cream is frozen to order it doesn't melt as quickly as traditional scoops. Where: 4155 Rickey St. SE Phone: 5036027502 Information: my22below.com House-made Paletas at Paleteria La Super 2 This familyowned sweet shop serves up a rainbow of ice creams and agua frescas, but the thing not to miss is the paletas — housemade popsicles. The treats are available in a mindbog gling array, enough to give you brain freeze. Bubbegum fans will appreciate the bright blue chicle, while those look ing for seasonal flavors will appreciate the more subdued fresas con crema, strawberries and cream. Where: 318 Lancaster Diver NE Phone: 8056232590 Information: paleteriayneverialasuper2.business.site/ Emily Teel is the Food & Drink Editor at the Statesman Journal. Contact her at eteel@statesmanjournal.com, Face- book, or Twitter. See what she's cooking and where she's eating this week on In- stagram: @emily_teel