Siroo Rice Cake Cafe West Ryde

Nice place to hang out with friends after dinner time. You can enjoy some desserts and drinks. The restaurant is spacious too. Drinks are quite average. The green tea latte is a bit too sweet. The cold drinks are quite pricey too, 7.5 for one. But the ice dessert taste pretty nice. We ordered regular size but it’s actually enough for 6 to share. Maybe because we are quite full after dinner 😂 We like the combination of the ingredients and the ice. Quite enjoyable to have it.

Been here a couple of times, they have a wider range of rice cakes here compared to the new one at Eastwood. Bingsu (snowflake shaved ice dessert) is good, but I wouldn’t say it’s the best. Rice cake is indeed very good, shaved ice is above average but not mind blowing. Used to be $15 for the bingsoo but steadily increased to about $18 now. 5% discount if you pay by cash above $25.

(Warning: I might be a bit biased as I'm not into rice cakes) This place has a range of rice cakes and a clever gift box. I think it's great if other desserts and snacks in life are too sweet. I liked the BingSu, I'm always amazed at how fine the ice is and how resilient to melting before you eat it. I enjoy the delicate feeling of the melt in your mouth. The rice drinks (in the fridge) was actually quite good! It was lightly but delightfully sweet. The atmosphere is quite relaxed and not so overwhelming. There's plenty of seating area. To get here, there's street parking and there's convenient two hour parking available in Coles and Woolworths nearby. Bring cash: they discount 5% if you spend over $25 and use cash.

Anyone else reckon ice desserts taste better when it's cold? 🤣 Maybe it's that that they don't melt as quick as in the summer. This is bingsoo, a Korean shaved ice dessert which is usually topped with the likes of condensed milk, red bean or fruit. My favourite bingsoo currently is at Siroo Rice Cake, a small cafe in West Ryde which is pretty well-known in the Korean community for their rice cakes (as the name might suggest). Actually, I hear that it's the very first shop in Sydney to make and sell Korean rice cakes in-house! When you walk in, there's a table full of rice cakes in different colours, shapes and flavours. All are baked fresh every morning and sold throughout the day. But it's the bingsoo we're here for. You can order strawberry, coffee, red bean or matcha green tea flavour. Had to opt for the latter because matcha stays undefeated (don't @ me 😝). It's unlike other bingsoo in Sydney. The shaved ice is so, so soft and powdery. On a close up look you can see all of the thin ice strands, so very delicate and fine. It's topped with a scoop of ice cream on a bed of red bean, a drizzle of condensed milk, and several fresh pieces of rice cake that are super soft and chewy. The green tea flavour lives well throughout the bingsoo, and it really is a perfect 'not too sweet' ice dessert! You can probably share a small size between 2-3 people by the way so it's priced accordingly. 📍 Siroo Rice Cake Cafe, West Ryde