Mang guo bing is the canonical Taipei summer dessert: layers of mango-syrup-infused shaved snow ice, topped with fresh mango chunks, mango ice cream and condensed milk.
Mango shaved ice (xue hua bing, snowflake ice) was popularised in Taipei in the 1990s, when Yongkang Street's Ice Monster (now Smoothie House) refined the snowflake-ice machine that produces sorbet-thin shaved ice rather than chunky shards. Taiwanese Irwin mangoes from Pingtung in the south are in peak season May to October. Smoothie House on Yongkang Street is the canonical Taipei version, with a mountain-sized portion topped with mango ice cream.
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