Taiwanese OG Strawberry Shaved-Ice in NYC 🗽

Taiwanese milk-tea has evolved into a dazzling galaxy of flavors, but the moment the lady-boss opened her mouth and that sweet Hokkien accent spilled out, I knew—this spot is 100 % island-authentic. 🧋🌸 Shaved Ice Mountain Range 🏔️❄️ Choose two routes: Grass-jelly lava 🍮 Strawberry avalanche 🍓 Layers of house-cooked strawberry jam, silky red beans, rain-clouds of condensed milk, and coconut-jelly cubes stack taller than a kindergartner’s backpack. Two people barely demolished half—each spoon screamed “after-school playground stall in Taipei 2005.” Every pudding flavor is heart-shaped; we picked matcha—soft, cloud-bouncy, gentle tea-sweet. 🍵💚 Toppings LEGO set 🌈 Bobas, puddings, grass-jelly, coconut cubes—slot them into any tea and it’s already premium league. We grabbed the IG-wall-worthy: Slow-cooked Taro & Purple-Sweet-Potato Pudding Fresh Milk (swirl galaxy) 🌌 Imperial Brown-Sugar Spinning Boba Milk (caramel tornado) 🌪️ Peach-scented Green Tea (summer breeze) 🍑 Ceylon Milk Tea with Velvet Pudding (grandma’s hug) 🫖 Names so Taiwanese you can practically hear night-market cicadas. Even the old-school plastic heat-seal film slapped us with nostalgia. 😌 Sugar traffic lights 🚦 30 % sugar = almost naked tea, aroma forward. Sweet-tooths cruise at 70 % or full throttle for sugar-rush valley. Bonus cuteness overload 🌟 Boss-lady’s daughter, a pint-sized social butterfly, fluttered over to demand our review—exploded our hearts like popcorn. Oh, and the shop doubles as a hair salon; she’s cutting bangs and pouring boba with equal swagger. 💇‍♀️🧋 Stumble into a tiny quiet gem like this and your heart grows two sizes—Taiwan-style warm, NYC-style serendipity. 🏙️🌺 📍 Erye #NYCFoodHunt #TaiwanFlavorTime #HeartWarmHarbor