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
