Hola Aloha

Am I missing something? This was one of my many «snow cone ghost hunts». I located the trailer and with several $ 1 in hand, to become extremely disappointed. I’m guessing they changed directions and/​or management because it is now a full-​blown vermicelli bowl place. It looked and smelled good, but I would have saved some mileage if this had been updated on Unilocal.Save your time, go to SnoBeach across from Palmer Event Center.

Hola Aloha is really great. I went there for the first time today. I got the prickly pear with coconut milk on top and it was the best I’ve ever had! Plus, all natural ingredients. It’s a little pricey, but if you want a good dessert, this is the place!

Absolutely love this place! I go to Lulu B’s pretty often and when I saw that this trailer had moved next door I was very excited to try it.
The prices are a little high for sno-​cones but don’t knock it ’til you tried it. All the syrups are home made and natural with flavors like agave, prickly pear, currant, etc. There is also the option of vegan ice cream, coconut cream and other things.
I’ve tried the coconut cream topped on my sno-​cone and oh boy, it was so delicious! Definitely worth a try and your $.

Holy hell that is a delicious sno-​cone!
Homemade syrups, as natural as «syrup» gets, with fruit juice and agave instead of sugar. There was one flavor that was not homemade, which was clearly indicated on the signboard. Unique flavors were available (prickly pear? lavender? currant?!), and any two flavors can be mixed without an upcharge.
A small is $ 3.50 and served in a recycleable cup with those flat wooden «spoons» from ice cream cups in elementary school. No plastic straw waste! The girl working in the trailer was a sweetie as well, especially on a hot day made more humid with intermittent rain.
We tried a blackberry/​rose combo, and a lemon-​ginger/​basil combo with coconut milk added. Blown away! Will be back guiltlessly to try a variety of flavors without so much syrup leading me to certain metabolic death.

I give this stand some props for using natural flavors, but I was honestly a little disappointed. The shaved ice was a little thick. After getting my order, i could not just eat or pick off the top layer with my spoon. Instead I had to pick at the middle section where there was more liquid to melt the bits of ice.
Although the ice was about as small as grains of rice, they solidified when it got to me. I was told the coconut ice cream is good, but they were out of it when I got there.
Owner came out and gave us some sample of green tea ice cream which were pretty good — not overly sweet either. I was told that she makes it better than the others. The owner was personable and remembered my friend from the last time she came.
Healthy? yes but I personally wasn’t a fan of the texture.

I grew up and live in Hawaii, the land of shave ice! We ween our babies on shave ice from birth, so sweet strawberry syrup practically runs through our veins. During my trip to Austin I was so homesick that I started jumping up and down when my friend Connie found Hola Aloha on her Unilocal app. It was 16 meters (yes meters, what the hell is that?!) from the wine bar our group was having a private party at. We looked up and down the street for Hola Aloha and I finally spied it across the road. It literally looked like a roadside party.
We risked our lives running across the busy roadway and ran towards the promise of shave ice at Hola Aloha. This indeed was the place to be on a Tuesday night in Austin. Hola Aloha is housed in a cute little trailer that’s painted with green leaves and shaded under a giant tree. The place had such a cool vibe because there was a DJ spinning and there were about 40 people hanging out and eating spiked shave ice.
Got up to the ordering window and I ordered a large shave ice for $ 6. I chose strawberry and basil syrups which were supposedly organic all natural. My friend Connie ordered their complimentary spiked Dreamsicle Sweet Tea shave ice and the green tea coconut ice cream. If you’ve ever had shave ice in Hawaii, you know that this is not real shave ice. Authentic shave ice is like eating powdered snow and this shave ice was more like eating small ice chunks. My friend said it was like having Italian ice, and I don’t know what that is. The syrups were not the traditional diabetes inducing sweet syrup that I grew up with, but rather a lighter flavored syrup which I found to be very refreshing. Connie’s spiked shave ice wasn’t anything fabulous but her green tea coconut ice cream was really yummy. It had a very thick texture, which was almost like frosting and for you Hawaii people, reminded me of Haupia.
Hola Aloha is such an adorable little business and it reminded me of a wonderful party full of family and friends. Unfortunately, all I could think while I was at Hola Aloha was that one day I need to bring authentic Hawaii shave ice to Austin. It would kill it! But maybe my shave ice needs to stay in Hawaii because that’s probably what makes it so special…

Yay for Hola’s new location on S Lamar in the Lulu B’s lot — the perfect combo of trailers in my opinion. Stop by for some healthy Vietnamese and stay for a healthy cold treat afterward.
I had been last summer to their Manor location but this new location is actually close enough to stop by at least once a week. I am going to be a regular here for sure so many unique flavors to try like Green Tea, Strawberrie Basil, Lavender and Rose in addition to the regular snow cone flavors.
This cute snow cone trailer offers a healthy alternative to those high fructose snow cones we grew up eating. Hola Aloha syrups are made with agave, organic juice and local fruits and herbs and are served in recycled compostable cups. The sweet woman also shaves the ice with a hand cranked contraption that makes fluffy not crunchy ice — like eating snow.
My favorite so far is the Ginger Lime topped with Coconut Crème 3.50 for a small. But, that might change soon as I work my way through the every changing menu. Whatever flavor you decide on get it topped with coconut crème!

I love the concept of a snocone made with all natural syrups– it’s about time! Today I swung by and got a small with apricot-​peach-​vanilla syrup and coconut milk. It tasted fresh, but I felt like the syrup was not concentrated enough. It was almost like juice on top of shaved ice. Now I’m not a sugar junkie, but this was significantly less flavorful than the average snocone/​water ice. I wanted to like this place at first taste, but I will have to go back and try some other flavors to have a definitive say.

Just had their winter season gourmet waffles … wow. That’s it … wow.
OK so I’d seen this place on my drive up and down (or east to west but whatever) manor rd almost everyday. I saw it when it was a snow cone stand and never (very regrettably) stopped. But when I read their sign say «savor and sweet waffles» I immediately decided to make the trek. Saturday morning is usually 10 – 12 for many austinites so I strolled up around 10:30 Sat morning, nice and cloudy. Very nice day. I ordered one savory and one sweet for me and the wifey to share. So I waited. They told me it might be a while, I said no rush. I’d had a hectic week and was just totally glad it was Saturday and I had nothing to do. So I decided to buy time by going over to chilito for some coffee since the weather was delightful chilly (for Texan’s standards). Pretty decent line at chilito so I figured it be ready by the time I was done. I get there and its not. They tell me that had to make a fresh batched of batter and appeared sincerely apologetic. I had nothing but time that day. Still took another while so they came out and told me it was on the house. I threw in a five in the tip jar and figured we’d call it even. They did right by me. I didnt complain, I didnt make mean faces at them and scoff and roll my eyes at them. I was just as laid back as I was feeling and out of their own good graces they decided to make write by a customer. And that was a good start for me. And when I got home and had these waffles they were oh so heavenly.
You might be skeptical at first for the savory waffles but you have nothing to fear. If you love pizza for breakfast or think that pizza should be a breakfast item, get here now. If you love to say you just ate something sophisticated like for a cheap price, get here now. If you love waffles get here now.

This place is magnificent! Yummie ices, fantastic ingredients, creative flavors, even a cute trailer. The perfect way to end a hot Austin day.

I thought I was a fan of hola aloha after my first visit. My mango sno cone was the bomb, it is on the east side and there’s no crap the FDA approves of only for monetary benefit inside… Tasty good-​for-​you refreshment!
However, it wasn’t until my second visit that I discovered how great it is to eat lavender and until my third visit that I came to live for the coffee/​coconut milk combo.
Way to go chicas! I’m a fan.

I just came back from my third visit to Hola Aloha, the new shaved ice joint right next to El Chilito (in the parking lot). Ohmigod these are fabulous. Especially the home-​made syrups, although everything we’ve tried has been amazing. The flavors are terrific, divided between agave-​based and raw-​sugar based, really unusual flavors like sugarplum, prickly pear, green tea, and so on. Some are homemade, and others are gourmet other-​made. She shaves the ice by hand, and it’s fluffy, like snow (not like the pellets you get most places). Be careful, or you won’t want supper (this has happened to me twice).
Among the creations we’ve tried:
Green tea and mango — mmmm!
Black Plum with Leche de dulce (YUM!!!)
Peach-​Vanilla (delish!)
Strawberry Basil (this was my fave, absolutely to die for)
Sugarplum
Pineapple/​prickly pear/​coconut milk.
She also sells the baby coconuts that she opens with a machete and you drink the milk from a straw (and can then eat the meat with a spoon). I’ve only had those in Mexico, and I LOVE them, can’t wait to get them regularly.
While you’re in the neighborhood, check out the sushi trailer a block away, Sushi-​A-​Go-​Go. Manor Road is trying to give South Congress a run for its money. I pray we can keep these trailers here in East Austin where they belong!

Sno-​cones for adult tastes (and plenty for kids, too). How about lavender? Rose? Kombucha? You can tell a lot of care goes into the the creation of the flavors and they’re not sickly sweet like those from most shaved ice stands. Really delicious and perfect for slow savoring.

For five years, I’ve been driving up and down Manor Road at least twice a day. For three of those years, I’ve been thinking, «someone needs to open a sno cone stand on Manor.» Recently, I thought, «why doesn’t anyone make agave-​based syrups that are more natural?»
I think the owner of Hola Aloha read my mind!
Hola Aloha has got it going on in the snow cone department … lavender, strawberry basil, plum, lemon-​lime ginger, rose, and cucumber just to name a few. So far, I’ve only had lavender, but I can assure that I *will* work my way through that menu.
Things I like about Hola Aloha:
1. the friendly, helpful service which included a check to see how I feel about lavender flavor on its own,
2. the Manor Road location,
3. the variety of syrups and, most important …
4. the thought of how many more snow cones I’m going to buy from them

Awesome. I had the prickly pear with coconut milk, and can easily say it was the best sno-​cone I’ve ever had. I went there skeptical, thinking that sno-​cones are the type of item that shouldn’t be made with organic syrups. I was wrong. $ 3 for a good-​sized sno-​cone is also a great price. I just wish it was called «Aloha Hola» so that it was actually a palindrome.

I was so happy when I saw a sno-​cone place opened up just a couple of blocks from my house. I was even happier to discover that it was the kind of sno-​cone place I’ve dreamed about– gourmet syrups, many hand-​made, in delicious flavors! Strawberry-​basil was delicious, and Pineapple with coconut milk was tasty as well.
The proprietress was very friendly and gave exactly the right amount of syrup– a perfect mix of flavor and ice all the way to the end.

I just tried Halo Aloha’s shave ice last night and it was DEEELISH! I love the fact that Chella makes her own syrups and that they’re all natural. I had the plum flavor, and it was light and refreshing all the way down to the bottom (none of that ucky syrupy stuff globbing up the bottom of the cup like at other places). My husband had peach and leche and it was creamy and delicious. The atmosphere was fun, too — they had music playing and we just leaned up against our car, ate our ice, and watched all the goings-​on on the east side. Definitely a nice way to top off an evening.