"Kanomwaan feels like it was plucked out of Siam Square in Bangkok and placed in LA. It has all the things you’d want in a trendy Bangkok dessert cafe: fluffy shaved ice topped with salty egg cream, buttery brick toast ladled with pandan custard, and a selection of ice cream that is unabashedly Thai. You’ll find well-loved Thai classics here, like durian sticky rice and butterfly pea flower. My favorite flavor is the candle-smoked ice cream with salted egg yolk, which strikes a playful balance between salty and sweet and tastes nostalgic to me thanks to the use of tian op, or Thai perfume candle." - Kat Thompson