This place didn't live up to the hype for me and my YEA. It's solid but wait a bit to avoid the serious lines.
It's recently soft-opened so exploding with popularity and long lines for the limited space with the cafe. The cafe is nicely decorated throughout with a mix of round sit-down tables and a tall long bench near towards the back.
TIP: if the cafe is full with no open tables, their unofficial policy for tables is based on the order of the customers. So squatting on a table while your group orders will not work.
There was definitely a line-up out towards the door when we arrived in the evening around 9pm-ish. It was a lively atmosphere and it was packed through and through.
The main frustration that I had with the place was that there was no clear person trying to direct traffic and clearing tables of those customers that had finished their dessert to make room for new customers who just ordered. There was a Dear Fro person trying their best to manage flow of customers but a lot of people in line, like myself, were wondering what do I do when I get my dessert and there is no place to sit because other people are just sitting at tables chatting with empty dessert bowls. Although the cafe is probably meant for people to enjoy the desserts in a relaxed atmosphere, a grand opening will pretty much blow up that idealism.
I would recommend not coming here until maybe a month or two later when surge of people subside a little bit if you are not a fan of huge crowds.
Now overall, their take on shaved ice was good but not particularly memorable for me. The shaved ice wasn't overly sweet which I did enjoy against some of the more sweetened versions of shaved ice. We settled for the strawberry shaved ice as a consolation because their mango shaved ice was so popular that it was sold out. The texture and mouth-feel of the little shards of shaved iced was like eating little snowflakes.
I wish we had more time to enjoy the atmosphere but we bounced after feeling the deep stares of others waiting for a seat to tuck into their desserts.