Frozen Lemonade At Kyky''s Hawaiian Ice

Frozen lemonade at Kyky's Hawaiian Ice

First find of the summer: A frozen treat even better than snowballs.

This felt like the first truly hot weekend, and some Sunday Swings with Shandra left us drained.  Thanks to AnnieRie's suggestion, we ended up at Kyky's Hawaiian Ice off Montgomery Road in Ellicott City.

Look just off menu for the sign about the frozen lemonade.  That's a snowball variation that actually beat out the two snowballs that we also ordered.  (Three cups of ice?  Well, Shandra makes you swing a lot in 90 minutes.)  Kyky's basically makes a lemonade to order -- a cup of ice, then a lemon-and-simple-syrup concentrate, then water.

It's delicious.  We drank a bit, scooped from lemony ice.  Sweet, but tastes like real lemon.  It's as refreshing as a snowball, and it beats those out because we can't really claim that our favorite technicolor flavors actually taste "real."

Kyky's also has the full range of snowballs indigenous to the Baltimore area.  They're good.  They're still not shave ice, which is more like snow than ice chips.  I love the Baltimore snowball and all the local stands.  But they're still not shave ice like we had in Hawaii.  I wrote about this last winter, and I still need to try Baltimore's Hula Honey and Randall's town Original Hawaiian Island Snowball that people recommended in the comments.

Kyky's Hawaiian Ice
a portable stand in front of T-Bonz Grille
4910 Waterloo Road
Ellicott City, MD 21043

NEAR:  Kyky's is a trailer snowball stand parked -- at least in the summer of 2013 -- on an access road in front of T-Bonz Grille at Montgomery Road and Waterloo Road (Rte 104) in Ellicott City.  It's convenient from Rte 100 or Rte 103.

It's Hot. Get Ice at KyKy's Hawaiian Ice

It's hot.  Get ice.  There is nothing simpler than KyKy's Hawaiian Ice -- a stand in a parking lot near the new Costco and Lowe's off Rte 108.

There is nothing inside but an ice-shaving machine, a teenager, and dozens of jugs of flavorings.  A few dozen flavors to be squirted into your cup of shaved ice.  Day-glo, unnatural colors.  My lemon-lime tasted less of citrus and more like the flavor company was trying to approximate Slice.

But it was cold, and, like Soft Serve in Ellicott City or Rita's in Columbia, the fun is in sitting outside with a treat.  Plus, the electric green color made me laugh as I puttered to my errands at Lowe's.  They're open 11-9.

KyKy's Hawaiian Ice

Lark Brown shopping center

6590 Old Waterloo Road

Elkridge, MD 21075

NEAR:  This is over a hill from the new Costco near the insection of Rte 108 and Rte 175.  From Rte 108, turn east towards the Costco at the intersection with Lark Brown Road.  (Lark Brown only goes one way.)  The shopping center is two blocks up on the left.