Of all the diverse and delicious food you can track down in Dubai, there’s one that’s bound to satisfy any sweet toothed travelers: an ice cream shop called Dynamite Shake in Umm Suqeim, a bustling area of Dubai located along the Jumeirah Beach coast.
Dynamite Shake borrowed the secret ingredient behind its signature milkshakes from another Middle Eastern dessert: Persian ice cream. The shop’s Persian-style shakes are made with almost a dozen different ingredients — including coffee, cinnamon, banana, walnuts, dates, sesame seeds, shredded coconut, and pistachios — that are blended together to create a deliciously rich and sweet milkshake. Beyond using many ingredients that are common to both Persian and Emirati cuisine, Dynamite Shake’s base ingredient of traditional Persian ice cream gives these milkshakes their creamy, thick, almost stretchy consistency.
