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Mango bingsu from Snowy Village. Compared to the erect confidence of the towering bingsus from most other Korean joints, this contender looked majorly flaccid and lethargic. The mangoes tasted like they have led rather fruitful long lives, while the milk ice positively showered me with unadulterated love from Mummy Cow’s…

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 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…