The more ice cream you buy, the better value. The other three unique flavors are Ginger Rosewater, Creamy Rosewater and Orange Blossom. The milk they use has “no bovine growth hormones.” Evidently, rose water acts as a “regulator of menstrual flow,” cardamom is “useful for flatuation,” and Arabic gum is “known to sooth irritations of mucus membrane.” When eating ice cream, I can do without the words “menstrual flow,” “flatuation” and “mucus.”įive of the “exotic house specialties” are Herbal Snow (sorbet studded with poppy seeds), Rosewater Saffron, Faludeh, Sour Cherry Faludeh and Pomegranate Sorbet.
There are good versions of standard flavors like black cherry, strawberry and mint chocolate chip, but the reason Mashti Malone’s ice cream has gained a following is their “exotic house specialties.”Īn informative ingredient key hangs on the wall. Starting out, the brothers only had enough money to replace “Mugsy” on the existing sign…, which explains the enduring four-leaf clover.Īccording to Hilary MacGregor’s near-definitive 2002 write-up in the LA Times, Mashti’s family has been making ice cream for over 75 years, and by his teens, he was already running the family ice cream shop in Iran. Mashti Malone’s naming process has become legendary among L.A. Despite that (hopefully) isolated incident, it’s still worth visiting Mashti Malone’s for the brothers’ exotic and delicious rosewater-flavored ice creams. I say “sketchy” because I’ve witnessed a hooker threaten to “cut” her pimp in the parking lot.
Iranian immigrants Mashti Shirvani and brother Mehdi opened their unique ice cream parlor in a sketchy Hollywood strip mall in 1980, occupying the shuttered home of the Mugsy Malone ice cream shop.
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