Taste and see

The Icehouse has been in the family for many years.  We started out in the front room of Blake's grandma's home office on the gulf coast of Mississippi in 2006, selling New Orlean's style shaved ice or snoballs.  A few years later, The Icehouse became a mobile business.  In the summers of 2018-19 you would have found us at different events across southwest Michigan and parked at Weko Beach.

We closed in 2020, so Blake and Jenny could pursue teaching in Southeast Asia.  Not being able to get there, due to the pandemic, they packed their bags and  moved to Hawaii to teach virtually for a few months.  A few months turned into 2 years living on the island of Oahu.  While there, the family fell in love with the Hawaiian culture and way of life, especially the shave ice.

Why do they call it "shave" ice?  In the early 1900's, Japanese immigrants brought their tradition of shave ice to the islands where they made it for plantation workers.  From there, the love of shave ice spread across the islands.  And don't you dare call it "shaved" ice.  It's been "shave" ice since those early days in the Hawaiian Pidgin language and it always will be.

The Icehouse is back and open for business in Southwest Michigan.  We might call it "shave" ice now, but we don't mind if you add the "d" or call them "snoballs" like our early days.  We have updated our look and shave ice machines, but still offer the do-it-yourself FLAVOR ZONE that everybody loves.  On our menu now, you'll find things that can be found all over the country in "shaved" ice like ice cream and sweetened condensed milk, but you'll also find Hawaiian favorites like sweet rice cake mochi balls, lychee jelly, and li hing mui powder.

We hope our shave ice will remind you of paradise or make you want to go if you haven't been already.