Wailua Shaved Ice is from Hawaii and serves Kakigori. We had their beautiful and signature Ube flavor in small size but it tasted more like coconut.
❤Love love love this place!! Much much better than Matsumoto!!!💯
We have been looking for a spot to eat out and this place has been the best one we found 🙌🥰
Pros. Extremely tasty
Cons. Absolute no parking unless you pay and park and that’s at heart $6 dollars
The ice was delicious! We got 3 different kinds and all 3 were great. Fairly short wait considering, yummy ripe fruit on top.
Just short of 5 stars due to the ordering process. When you walk up, it is mobile order only. This would be okay, except the cell service in the hallway where they are located is spotty at best. Of our group of 3, only 2 were able to get through to the website to place orders, and it was extremely slow with only 1 bar coming and going. Getting our orders in took significantly longer than waiting for our shave ice itself.
the guava is delightful, and the regular size is big enough to share. be sure to pay extra for the edible glitter because otherwise, what's the point?
We got a variety of flavors the ice was nicely shaved it melts in your mouth , favorite mango and orange dream.
I honestly can’t describe how delicious the Ube shaved ice was here. Possibly one of my favorite desserts of all time. The portion was huge which was great because I did not want to stop eating! The shaved ice was sweet, light, refreshing, and flavorful (ube with coconut). FYI you order online and it is a pickup window- no seating in the shop. My order took about 5min. I’m already planning the next time I can stop by!
My daughter brought me here because she said this was the best shave ice she's had outside of Hawaii. She's a fan of the Almond Joy - and it's definitely tasty - but I tried the Wailua Sunrise (always try the namesake product, right?) and it was delicious.
The flavor (if you order with regular syrup) is there but it's not a in-your-face, high fructose corn syrup, diabetes-causing sweetness so if you're a sweets junkie, you might try ordering it with extra syrup. The toppings which were nice and fresh were presented delicately balanced on the bed of soft shave ice.
The location of the shop is excellent too. Being from Vegas, I'm used to super sized/oversized, glitzy/glammy shopping malls/centers. Wailua is literally in an alleyway that connects SW Oak and W Burnside Streets. Microstores line both sides of the alley - the whole place is cozy, beautiful, and full of light and warmth.
This is some of my favorite shave ice that’s not in Hawaii. The long line tells you that it’s worth it! The shave ice is smooth and there are no dry spots. They have an interesting selection of flavors and toppings to try. The staff is also super friendly.
Mahalo! This is the best shaved ice I’ve had outside of Hawaii’s very own Shimazu; which is saying a lot! This shaved ice is so thin, it melts at the right heat, hardly sticks to the tongue or wooden spoon. I may say this tops my favorite shaved ice because the flavors are so concentrated and wonderful! I ordered the mango one (no Keiki size for me!) and the mango juice tasted fresh, like a true juice rather than flavoring. Whoever pours this juice is a master; not a single drop excess or a single drop less, my ice from the top to the bottom was completely mango ‘orange’. I brought my friend and she also agreed it’s the best aside from Oahū! The perfect treat on a hot day or low-cal (but sugary) dessert to end the night. I would return again and again if I could! Nothing beats fresh SHAVED ice. Be sure to walk inside the building!
Really yummy cold treats perfect for a hot day. All of the desserts are variations of shaved ice topped with a generous dollop of what appears to be mousse, so it’s a light and refreshing dessert that is presumably on the lighter side in terms of calories as well. There are two sizes to choose from and several flavors including but not limited to coconut, ube, and mango. I saw quite a few people order each of these and ordered ube myself. The smaller size is enough for one person or two if both people just want to try it. The desserts are very adorable (see photo).
As of August 2023, the store only took mobile orders (there’s a QR code menu) and placed ready orders on the table outside the doorway.
Thee best Hawaiian shaved ice I have had!!!
Love potion #9 is my fave!!!
A lil place in an alleyway of stores.
Order online and save some time.
It's gourmet Hawaiian shaved ice!!!
I was thinking snow cones but this is SHAVED ICE and it has nothing to do with snow cones. It is SO MUCH BETTER!!!!! I am only sad they don’t have more locations because if you don’t live here (or Hawaii) you are missing out! Sweet and fluffy and delicious! I had the Ube and highly recommend it!
A must when visiting Portland. The small size was enough for us. My coconut shave ice was perfect; not over-sweet, fluffy, refreshing, and delicious.
Wailua is super fun! We were expecting the kind of shaved ice where it’s a bit chunky, but it was really smooth, almost like snow. The flavors were excellent, the presentation is very pretty, and the portions are impressively large. Trust me, you’ll love it.
You have to order online, even when you’re there in person, and they’ll call your order out when it’s ready.
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I am forever changed by this shaved ice experience.
My mom and I went, it’s down a walk way between to buildings, like a cute little shopping strip. When you walk up, you scan a QR Code and order it online. They will then call your name when it’s ready. There are some benches around in the shopping strip but there were quite a few people waiting to get shaved ice so a lot of seated spots were taken.
Onto the shaved ice! We got “Hello Summer”, a Strawberry Lemonade based one with strawberry purée and fresh strawberry. That one also had its proceeds going to an 8th grade boys team for some sport. It was SO GOOD. I grew up getting traditional shaved ice from trucks in Austin. The kind where you can still feel it’s ice kind of. And sometimes you can just suck all the syrup out of the ice and you’re left with flavorless ice again. YEAH NO, this place is shaved ice but with the consistency of like…cold cotton candy. So airy and soft but holds so much flavor that it feels like airy ice cream. They did such a good job combing in flavors and sweetness. I will be back here again. I cannot eat shaved ice anywhere else now.
Yum!!! So good. I got the Almond Joy and my husband got the Damango One. So freaking good. It’s like the actual shaved ice not the snow cone kind. But actual shaved ice. It somewhat small and crowded in there but you could easily stand out side and here your order. They take cash and card which is very nice. This would be a wonderful place to go during the hot summer after visiting Powell’s Books. Good treat. 100% suggest this place.
I have been a fan since I discovered Wailua Shave Ice in a little passage way near Powell Bookstore. Online ordering by scanning a QR code. Today, it was all about Mango Shave Ice. Chunks of fresh mango atop the snowy mound of shave ice with delicious mango syrup and coconut milk.
This was just what I needed on a hot sunny day. Haven't had shave ice this good since Hawaii! They have a good selection of flavors, we tried the lava flow, almond joy and coconut. It was excellent, Mahalo!
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