The sno-balls at all three locations of the New Orleans-styled truck, where everything is sourced from the Bayou City, are finer than the regular snow cone, but just as good. The unique combinations with amazing names include the namesake Sweet Caroline, which is a mix of coconut, strawberry, and cream, or the Incredible Hulk, heaped with grape, pineapple, and Granny Smith apple syrups, and Nerds. The other two trucks are found on West Slaughter Lane and Mesa Drive.

The new sno-ball truck, run by a New Orleans native, offers up to three flavors ranging from the typical to cream to sugar-free.

The Taiwanese-styled snow ice at Sno Mo (née Snow Monster) comes with added bonuses, like red beans and tapioca. Go extra-indulgent with the snow waffle. There's the Lakeway location and a stand within H-Mart.

The Korean dessert chain opened its first non-California location in Austin, dishing out bingsu, a take on shaved ice made with “snow” from a milky base, topped with sweets like fruits and cookies. There’s a second out on West Parmer Lane.

The East Austin shave ice truck offers up fun and fruity flavors like blue raspberry, cotton candy, and pina colada, plus there are sugar-free options too.

The family-run institution has over 60 flavors available, including sugar-free options, all made with in-house syrups. There are traditional New Orleans flavors (chocolate and cream) to fancy combinations, like the Boston cream pie with custard syrup.

The West Campus shop is all about snow and shave ices, with flavors like lychee, taro, and matcha, and a whole bunch of toppings like jellies, tapiocas, and mochi.

The Thai-style ice cream truck also delivers sno-balls near campus, with special combinations ranging from Keep Austin Weird (a mess of strawberry, grape, pineapple, blue raspberry, tiger's blood, and banana) to Longhorn (orange of course). Go over-the-top by adding vanilla rolled ice cream to the snow-ball.

For flatter snow cones (read: not domed), head to the Vortex Theater for Sno.Co's frozen trailer, where are are cocktail-inspired cones like the Fuzzy Naval Academy and Manor Mule.

The Clarksville bar offers up fun sharable bingsu. The fun Korean shave ice options include the birthday cake (served with a candle) and the matcha parfait with peach ice cream and black sesame paste.

Water ice is different from shaved ice because water and fruit or fruit puree are mixed and frozen together. Check out the location on East 6th Street for over 30 flavor choices, ranging from vanilla to coconut or go for gelatis, where ice cream is added to the snow cones. Or head to the stand at Deep Eddy Pool for an after-dip treat.

The South Austin place has fun snow cone flavors of the days with neat drawings, like Christmas in July that mixed leche and spearmint, or Beauty and the Beast with banana and vanilla. There’s a second location down on Manchaca Road.

Get both ice cream and shave ice at the South Austin trailer in front of the bowling alley, where ice flavors range from typical like vanilla to unexpected like dill pickle.

Attempt to try all 150 snow cone flavors from the truck, including sugar-free options.