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– This is genuinely my go-to location for ice cream because the flavors are so precise and special, and due to the fact, all people right here are excellent. Like, it’s so fun to be around here.
– I pass to high school down the street, and I turned into seeking out ice cream, and it became simply here. It turned into the nearest place. Little did I know it changed into the nice ice cream I’d ever have for the rest of my lifestyles.
– Couldn’t live without it. So yeah, it’s absolutely top. Like, out of 10, I’d say it’s giving me a 12 right now.
Caroline: Meet Mashti and Mehdi Shirvani. They personal Mashti Malone’s Ice Cream in Hollywood. They’re credited for introducing Persian ice cream to LA. In a previous video, I topped them the pleasant ice cream in LA. And considering that then, I could not wait to move back for extra. We’re again at Mashti Malone’s. Hello.
– Hello.
– How’ve you men been?
– Very top.
– Whipping up some ice cream. It’s all my favored flavors.
– I’m Mashti Shirvani, the older brother. I came right here before the revolution in Iran. And in 1980, I opened this business. I had little financial savings. I offered the enterprise from the owner. And I begin making ice cream for nearby Iranians. Meanwhile, I changed into working within the eating place to kind of guide myself. Little with the aid of little, I commenced. It changed into difficult first. Especially, we don’t have taking walks site visitors here. So I had to preserve the customers when they had been coming. For every unmarried person, I changed into giving them samples. It’s how I built my enterprise. Caroline: What sets it aside is the flavors. Mehdi: We do not create, like, bizarre flavors. It’s primarily floral or fruit-based or natural-primarily based—things like that.
– We were given the rosewater with noodles.
– The first region I ever had Persian cucumber.
– And it is exact. It’s wonderful.
– Here, you get many of these exquisite flavors that you do not get in Italy, like with saffron. This is like saffron and rosewater. This is orange blossom.
– I do not know what rosewater’s commonly used for; however, I find it irresistible in ice cream. Mehdi: Saffron pistachio rosewater has been usually our bestseller. Rose became very uncommon and unknown to American delicacies. They’d never heard of rosewater. So it took him and us a lot of sampling and lecturing approximately the components. So individuals who had been no longer familiar with the taste of the type of receive that rose can be eaten. It’s similar to vanilla. But the element is vanilla is more famous here. Rose is greater popular in the other components of the arena.
Caroline: The creamery receives some of its elements overseas, including imported saffron from Iran.
– Right now, there may be a sanction, however proper before sanction, we introduced sufficient for-
– A lot, yeah.
– a subsequent couple of years.
Mashti: Everything you spot right here, that’s what we positioned. As tons as possible, I use natural ingredients. It’s pricey. However, I’m thrilled. Oh, it’s an exciting yellow shade. It smells so proper, yeah.
– We did not position any meals coloring, nothing.
– So the saffron gives it that yellow coloration.
Mashti: Yeah, yeah.
– Wow.
Caroline: When you go, order the Mashti Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s Mashti’s well-known saffron-rosewater ice cream sandwiched among wafers and rolled in pistachios. The texture… This gets an A+. It is just creamy and stretchy. It’s simple; it is so satisfying; wow. Mmmm. It’s truly excellent ‘motive you get little chunks of pistachios that have been blended into the ice cream, but also entire pistachios everywhere in the sides. It forms gives that quality stability from, like, the creamy ice cream to the crunchy pistachio. It’s clearly accurate. And you then get these, like, first-rate, chewy wafers.
– You can inform inside the flavor and the feel the entirety’s without a doubt clean and vibrant, all the flavors. And the thought that is going into everything I really experience.
– If you visit another ice cream save, there’d possibly handiest be chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry, but at Mashti Malone’s, there are all forms of various things.
– This is our first time certainly.
– Our first time.
– We’re touring from Oregon, and I’ve been trying to come back right here for three years. It lives way past my expectations.
– I bet extra than 80% of our customers are non-Persian. They come from every ethnicity and each group. They come right here. But this is like a destination for them. They make plans to come back and have ice cream. Caroline: I do not regret my selection for naming it the first-class in LA. It’s seriously so properly. Maybe even better the second one time around.
