Family Ingredients

-No show on mango would be complete without including Michelle Karr-Ueoka.

Without a doubt, she is Honolulu's premier pastry chef.

-Thanks.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day.

-Oh, no.

Any time.

It's all about mangoes today.

-Yeah, I'm excited.

-Since it's mango season, we have to have shave ice.

-In Hawaii, shave ice is a staple.

My favorite flavor growing up was rainbow.

Basically in its truest stripped-down form, it's just ice that has been shaved really thin into, like, snow and usually drizzled with super-sweet sugary syrup.

-So growing up, I would go to Waiola Shave Ice.

That was, like, a special treat.

If I was a good girl, my mom or my grandma would take me.

It didn't happen very often, just to let you know.

So when I wanted to do shave ice at the restaurant, I was trying to think how we can make it different.

So combining a lot of my favorite desserts into kind of one.

-Unlike the traditional version, she actually took a selection of Makaha mangoes, all different sorts of flavors, and she kind of made a cuve, a blend of mangoes, until she had the flavor profile she was looking for.

-Instead of me making it, I think it's more fun if you guys get to make your own.

-Yeah.

Even though I'm plant-based, there were ways to make it plant-based for me.

Step one -- tapioca.

-We have haupia tapioca.

My tribute to halo-halo.

Yeah, I just kind of layer it in the cup with a little bit of the tapioca, some fresh mangoes.

So we make mochi, and then we roll it around ice cream like sushi.

-Oh, nice.

-Thanks.

-We're gonna take a scoop of the mango guri guri.

-So, guri guri.

-Yes.

-My dad used to take me to a place in Moiliili called Guri Guri Drive-In, and it wasn't sherbet.

It had a different flavor.

-Some people say it's either evaporated milk or condensed milk.

When I made this, I added a little bit condensed milk, and I added carbonated water, kind of for effervescence.

I don't add any sugar to this because the mangoes itself are so sweet.

We use a refractometer to measure the density of the sugar because if there's too much sugar, it doesn't freeze.

-Oh.

-Just like alcohol.

-Yeah.

-By having all these different types of mangoes, you can play with the different acidity and sweetness levels.

-Cheers.

-Cheers.

-Cheers.

So do you -- Do you just go all the way through or just mix it up?

-Just go all the way down.

-There's no rules?

-And enjoy all the different textures.

-I could have eaten a bowl this big.

-[ Laughs ] -So good.