Mumbai Food: Try Korean dessert Bingsu at Ice Frost Dessert Cafe

Updated On: 23 June, 2019 07:57 AM IST | | Pallavi Mehra

Thailand's famous Korean dessert shop makes its India debut, and gets more hits than misses

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Kiwi bingsu. Pics/Pradeep Dhivar

On a rainy morning, we enter the newly opened Ice Frost Dessert Café at Carter Road, Bandra. The intimate space, dotted with bright blue and white tiles, is reminiscent of an American ice cream parlour from Hollywood movies such as Grease and Back To The Future. This café is the maiden Indian venture of Ice Frost Dessert Café originally from Phuket, Thailand. Opened in 2015 by dessert aficionados Rujiroj Chaiyabhat and Sakda Pansri, this dessert chain is presently in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. Since, the dessert shop is originally from Thailand, we were expecting delicious Thai desserts such as mango sticky rice and sweet Thai crêpes. However, to our surprise, the space specialises in Korean desserts and its signature dish is bingsu.

Bingsu, what?

Bingsu is hugely popular in Korea and Thailand, especially during summer. Simply explained, it is made of ice shavings and usually comprises sweetened condensed milk, fruit syrups, and fresh fruits such as strawberries, mangoes, kiwis and bananas. The balance between the sweet fruit syrup and ice shavings is important. If the fruit syrup overpowers the dessert, it could become too sweet. We start with the mango bingsu (Rs 159), which has the right layers of ice and milk shavings, fruit syrup, fresh mangoes and vanilla ice cream. While all the layers of a good bingsu are there, the fruit syrup is overwhelming, making it too sweet for our liking. If the sweetness is toned down by reducing the fruit syrup and increasing the ice shavings, it could be a real winner.

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