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Best Korean Bingsu in Singapore? Not really. This describes our love story with 10 different bingsu found in Singapore.
We say “Saranghae” to Bingsu 빙수, which is a popular dessert in Korean comprising of ice shavings and various ingredients, usually sweetened condensed milk, fruits, Korean rice cake, cereal flakes and ice cream.
Of course, the Patbingsu 팥빙수 is our favourite, topped with sweetened azuki red beans, which you can let the smooth ice flakes slowly melt in your mouth, and your heart.
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Nunsongyee 눈송이
45 Burghley Drive #01-04, Singapore 559022 (15-20 min walk from Lorong Chuan MRT)
Opening Hours: 12am – 10pm (Tues-Thurs), 12pm – 11pm (Fri), 10am – 11pm (Sat), 10am – 10pm (Sun), Closed Mon
https://www.facebook.com/nunsongyee
Nunsongyee, we would like to declare you “The Queen of Bingsu”.
You were hard to find, located at an ulu spot of Burghley. Even if we drive here, we need to travel big rounds. Your name “Nunsongyee 눈송이” (pronounced as noon-song-yi) means “Snowflake” in Korean. So delicate. Your signature desserts of Snow Flake Black Sesame, Strawberry, Coffee Bingsu ($18.90), are also one of the priciest around. There are many toppings of powdered soybean korean rice cakes, sesame powder and almond flakes. So pure, white, soft and pillowy. (Read: Nunsongyee Burghley Drive)
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Bing Jo Gung Dessert House
102 Guillemard Road #01-01 Singapore 399719 (Mountbatten MRT)
Opening Hours: 12pm – 11pm
https://www.facebook.com/binggojung
Bing Jo Gung, we love you too. You are the probably the first bingsu café to arrive in Singapore, it was so hard to decide between you and Miss Nun. (Oh yes, we couldn’t find you initially, until we saw g.spa.)
Your Injeolmi (Korean rice cake), and Milk & Red Bean Bingsu ($10) were filled with so much love. The ice was so fine, topped with crunchy ingredients of as corn flakes, sliced almonds, walnuts, cashew nuts. What did you add to your condensed milk? So smooth, so sweet, we couldn’t stop.
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Tom and Toms
12 Gopeng Street #01-12 Icon Village Singapore 078877
Tel: +65 6225 6313
You are one of Korean’s biggest café chain, and during my uni days not too long ago *cough cough*, I would study at your quiet vicinity at Tanjong Pagar Icon Village.
Your bingsu were as authentic as it could get, with flavours of Green Tea and Red Bean ($11.90), Mango ($10.90), Taro ($9.90), Yogurt Cheesecake ($12.90) and Milk Tea ($10.90). Good, affordable, thirst-quenching, and we liked your red bean.
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Café Insadong
279 South Bridge Road Singapore 058828 (Chinatown MRT)
Tel: +65 8533 2003
Opening Hours: 12pm – 9pm (Tues, Wed, Thurs), 12pm-10pm (Fri-Sat), 2pm-8pm (Sun), Closed Mon
https://www.facebook.com/cafeinsadong
Hello Café Insadong, your female standee at the door looked scary at night. But anyway, we also liked your Patbingsu Ice, in flavours of Red Bean, Sweet Potato, Oreo, Mango, Green Tea ($8.50 – $9.00). We hear that you are a local start-up, with staff trained by a Korean dessert chef.
For your price, we were surprised by the generosity of the ingredients – a full scoop of ice cream, a glob of red bean on the side, some crunchy almond slices, sliced red dates, and as you dig in further… sweet sticky Korean chapssaltteok (rice cake). Quite dae bak! (Read: Café Insadong South Bridge Road)
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Insadong Korea Town
Resorts World Sentosa, 26 Sentosa, Gateway #01-30/31/32/33, Singapore 098138
(Near Trickeye Museum)
Opening Hours: 11.30am – 10pm Daily
Tel No: +65 6238 8221
We ventured to Resorts World Sentosa for your sake. Insadong Korea Town, your self-ordering concept is very different. I got slightly lost the first time, but much better the second round.
Your Mango Shaved Iced with Ice Cream ($10) is topped with many ingredients and fruits, a little sweet for us, but we figured kids would like it. (Read: Insadong Korea Town Sentosa)
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One Ice Café
2 Jurong East Central 1, JCube #02-67 Singapore 609731
Opening Hours: 12pm – 10pm
https://www.facebook.com/one.ice.cafe
One of the most affordable Korean Patbingsu around, you make several mummies (and daddies) plus children happy. For $6.80 and a huge portion, we cannot complain much lah.
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One Thing Coffee Kids Café
170 Upper Bukit Timah Road, Bukit Timah Shopping Centre #B2-17
Tel: +65 97881276
Talking about children, so many of them playing around in your café. I see, you are a Korean kids cafe located in Bukit Timah Shopping Centre. Hot-sellers include Patbingsu (Red bean shaved ice), Raspberry Bingsu (Korean raspberry shaved ice) and Korean style waffles (Ice cream, fruits and plain).
Your Matcha Patbingsu ($8) in a huge pyrex apparatus was cute.
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Paris Baguette Singapore
435 Orchard Road, #02-48 to 53 Wisma Atria, Singapore 239977 (Orchard MRT),
Tel:+ 65 6836 2010, +65 6836 3010
Opening Hours: 10am – 10pm
Paris Baguette, the first time we tried your shaved iced, there was no Korean rice cake on top. Then we went to the Raffles Place branch, and there wasn’t this dessert item. Aiyah.
We were determined, so went back Wisma again. Ah, we liked the first few mouthfuls. The ice so smooth and fine, and red bean sweet and satisfying. Then we couldn’t help but give up after a while because there was just red bean, red bean and red bean. (Read: Paris Baguette Wisma Atria)
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Chick and Ken
21 Lorong Telok, Raffles Park, Singapore 049033 (Raffles Place MRT)
Tel: +65 91507257
Opening Hours: 12pmm – 10pm (Mon-Sat), Closed Sun
Chick and Ken, you win! Syringes with your bingsu? Thai inspired Cha-Yen Bingsu ($12.90)? Annyeong Sawadee?
Ok okay, we admit – your Bingsu fared somewhere in the middle – not the best, not our worst. We had fun squeezing the condensed milk and syrups out of the syringes, but can you (I mean your ice) be finer? (Read: Chick and Ken Lor Telok)
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Frozen
3151 Commonwealth Avenue West #01-13, City Vibe, Singapore 129581 (5 min walk from Clementi MRT)
Opening Hours: 11am – 10pm (Mon-Sun)
Your bingsu left us frozen. The Elsa Blueberry Cheesecake ice flakes ($17.90… wait, why so expensive?) looked pretty, coming in a slice of cheesecake and milky ice cream on top.
The shaved ice could be rough, and might make a young Princess Anna cry if she would sink her teeth into it. “Let it go, let it go… Can’t hold it back anymore…” (Read: Frozen Clementi)
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*Written by Daniel Ang, some photos from Nicholas Tan @stormscape
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