Hokey Pokey LA

🇳🇿 NEW ZEALAND
📍 10250 Santa Monica Blvd., Century City, Westside
🅿️ Mall has private garage, one hour free
🥤 No Alcohol

EDITOR'S NOTE: Inside Westfield Century City mall, unit #2625.

In the United States when ice cream is around, the term "hokey pokey" has generally meant some form of corrupted Italian terminology and has plenty of origin stories. In New Zealand, it means something very different and very specific, referring to a flavor combining vanilla ice cream and honeycomb toffee chunks.

Near the end of 2022, a New Zealander-owned shop opened up in the Westfield Century City mall and three brothers started offering Los Angeles their hyper-regional treat. Their take continues the soft serve trend in the city, with a base of ultra-creamy vanilla either on a waffle cone or in a cup. They have turned the usually larger chunks of toffee into a homemade crumble that gets spooned onto the ice cream when you order.

Hokey pokey (above) sounds like a simple dessert and it kind of is, but that first lick proves what a luxurious treat you have actually ordered. The ice cream itself is very rich, while the sweet crunch of the toffee rounds out the flavors and energizes the textures of the experience. The temperature is on the low side to maximize the creaminess, so start licking fast before it drips down your hand!

While hokey pokey is an important and popular flavor in New Zealand, their ice cream shops are also well-known for having long lists of options on their menu. Hokey Pokey LA keeps their menu quite tight, but there are other flavors to choose like hazelnut hokey chocolate (below left), which uses a delicious Italian hazelnut soft serve and adds soft chocolate to the toffee crumble.

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