{"id":12001,"date":"2016-02-02T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/?p=12001"},"modified":"2024-02-07T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T05:31:52","slug":"cafe-seol-hwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/location\/philippines\/paranaque\/cafe-seol-hwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafe Seol Hwa in Para\u00f1aque: A Korean Dessert Shop Serving Bingsu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Updated as of January 24, 2024.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">When the heat in the Philippines is too much to handle, we know a place where you can chill out. Seol Hwa (\uc124\ud654) is a Korean dessert shop in BF Homes, Para\u00f1aque. In English, <em>seol hwa <\/em>means <em>snow flake<\/em> or <em>snow flower<\/em>. True to its name, they serve snow-like ice creams called <em>bingsu <\/em>which is very popular in Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12006\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/IMG_0511.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/IMG_0511.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/IMG_0511-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/IMG_0511-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12005\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/IMG_0509.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/IMG_0509.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/IMG_0509-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/IMG_0509-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">IMAGES from Caf\u00e9 Seolhwa<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Bingsu<\/em> is made from shaved ice topped with fruit and\/or ice cream. It\u2019s more popular during summer season because it\u2019s served really cold and it melts in your mouth, just like a snow flake. The most common topping is red bean paste and sweetened evaporated milk. The shop\u2019s bestsellers are <strong>Mango Cheesecake Bingsu<\/strong>, a milk snowflake topped with sweet mango pieces, cheesecake cubes, slithered almonds and vanilla ice cream; <strong>Almond Brownie Bingsu<\/strong>, a choco snowflake topped with brownie pieces, slithered almonds and chocolate ice cream; and lastly, <strong>Injeolmi Bingsu<\/strong>, a milk snowflake topped with slithered almonds, roasted soybean powder and Injeolmi, a rice cake that\u2019s been rolled in roasted soybean powder. With all these toppings in a single cup, how wouldn\u2019t your sweet tooth be satisfied?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12007\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/IMG_0533.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12003\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/Cafe-SeolHwa-1.png\" alt=\"Cafe SeolHwa 1\" width=\"850\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/Cafe-SeolHwa-1.png 943w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/Cafe-SeolHwa-1-290x95.png 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/Cafe-SeolHwa-1-900x295.png 900w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/Cafe-SeolHwa-1-768x252.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">IMAGES from Caf\u00e9 Seolhwa<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In their menu, you would find both savoury and sweet offerings \u2013 all with Korean flare at that. Aside from the <em>bingsu<\/em> treats, they also offer sandwiches, <em>ddeok<\/em> (Korean rice cakes), coffee, ice blended drinks, toast and many more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Caf\u00e9 Seol Hwa will surely satisfy your craving for something cold and sweet. Here in the Philippines where summer season is scorching hot, it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if this shop becomes a hit!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caf\u00e9 Seol Hwa will surely satisfy your craving for something cold and sweet. Here in the Philippines where summer season is scorching hot, it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if this shop becomes a hit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,52,107,74,72],"tags":[621,6374,623],"class_list":["post-12001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-korean","category-paranaque","category-bf-homes","category-bakery-and-sweets","category-cafe-resto","tag-bf-homes","tag-korean-cafe","tag-paranaque"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12001"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49294,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions\/49294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}