Mango bingsu with soft serve at Snowman Desserts. The soft serve was like McDonald’s ice cream, but with the cow’s mammary glands on hyper super-milky overdrive. The mango chunks were massive, soft and sweet, but somehow the milk snow here was less snowy and more icy than I expected, and…
Green tea bingsu from Bing Go Jung. The quality here is noticeably different from those of the shaved milk ice variants from places like Nunsongyee and O’Ma Spoon – this was essentially a tattooed, golden-haired, uncivilised ah beng ice kachang with gritty cashew nuts and cornflakes from “the block”, as opposed…
Green tea bingsu with green tea ice cream from O’Ma Spoon. Essentially pleasant shaved milk ice that is slightly coarser than its fancier and more indulgently-priced bretheren (we detected some hard ice goblins playing in the snow) but the trade-off is its more manageable price point and the availability of…
Cha-Yen bingsu from Chick and Ken – Thai tea glace, home-made red rubies, honeyed corn flakes and Thai tea gelee. Essentially surprisingly good Thai milk tea ice kachang, and somehow by magical diffusion or similar scientific mechanism the Thai milk tea flavour and scent is distinct and detected in every…
Mixed berries Bingsu. The equivalent of putting a naked panda and monitor lizard in bed and expecting lusty sparks to fly. Whilst the shaved milk ice remains undeniably velvety soft and the berries were legit, there was zero chemistry between the two, and I was left rather confused by it…
Black Sesame Bingsu – red bean paste, powdered soybean Korean rice cakes, sesame powder and almond flakes on shaved milk. Like a grainy desert that miraculously comes alive from the nourishment of the milk poured from heaven – the dry sandy sesame powder becomes deliciously pasty, the red bean paste…