Tarascos has an extensive menu of creative creamy paletas, including pops flavored like Fruity Pebbles cereal, elote, and cheese curds, as well as more standard flavors like creamsicle and Mexican caramel. They also make mangonadas.

Lines regularly form outside this North Main refresqueria for the ice cold raspas, which come in candy-like flavors including sour green apple, root beer and picosito, as well as naturally flavored syrups like lime, lemon and tamarindo.

In addition to various Taiwanese shaved ices, Meet Fresh also offers build-your-own icy bowls with taro or grass jelly as a base, and boba, beans, ice cream, nuts, and other toppings to add on.

This popsicle joint, with locations inside the Galleria and in Bellaire, makes seasonal fresh ice pops daily, with flavors like passionfruit, spicy-salty mangonada, and strawberry lemonade, made with fresh squeezed lemons and berry puree. They also offer creamy pops, including a sweet avocado and a horchata popsicle with a dash of cinnamon.

With three locations throughout Houston — Midtown, Upper Kirby and The Heights — Cloud10 might be best known for its ice cream. But they also feature some creative non-dairy sorbet flavors like lime lemon mint and guava black tea, as well as a rocky road popsicle, a peanut butter and jelly ice cream cookie sandwich, and even doggie ice cream shaped like little bones.

As the name implies, this shop at Bellaire’s Dynasty Plaza specializes in fluffy, snowy bingsu with toppings like espresso, Oreo cookies, Captain Crunch cereal, and all manner of fruit.

This shop’s Taiwanese “ribbon ice” takes 10 hours to prepare and has the consistency of ice cream. The result is a beautiful, flaky, melt in your mouth dessert that is topped with fruit, syrup, jellies, and more.

Kravin makes cookie-topped snow ices in flavors like taro, topped with egg pudding and sweet red beans, and milk tea, topped with various cereals. They also make a mangonada snow ice.

This shaved ice shop at Bissonnet and Dairy Ashford offers 56 flavors, 40 of which are available sugar-free. They focus on New Orleans-style shaved ice, which is finer and fluffier, and all of the syrups come from the original New Orleans snow cone maker, SnoWizard. Flavors are pretty traditional — mango, strawberry, cherry, coconut and the like — but it’s also possible to add chewy boba or chamoy drizzle to spice things up.

KICPops is a series of ice carts which can be found at Berings Hardware stores and several tourist destinations throughout the Houston area, including the Downtown Aquarium, Kemah Boardwalk and Galveston Pleasure PIer. Flavors include blackberry lavender and burnt butter brownie, as well as alcohol-inspired pops like the salted watermelon tequila. If you can’t find a cart out and about, order online.

This Hawaiian-style shaved ice truck hangs out near the Buffalo Bayou Cistern, serving up extra-fluffy snow cones to denizens of the park. The menu rotates weekly, but the syrups are always made from scratch and many include flavors with infused herbs and spices.

This family-owned shaved ice shop has been serving NOLA-style snow cones for a decade, with flavors like spiced apple, wine cooler, and “Pick a Dilly” — syrup of your choice topped with a layer of Kool-Aid pickles.

Diners rave about the customer service at this snow cone stand in Eastwood, which serves up flavors like pink lemonade, natural tamarindo, and passionfruit. Toppings include cream, fresh fruit, chamoy, and more.