Daegu café for old-style patbingsu and an ice cream latte: Hands
Hands Coffee Dongchon Resort Branch is a large café on Hyodong-ro 6-gil in Dong-gu, Daegu, spread over floors 2 to 4 with forest and Kumho River views. On a weekend afternoon with an elementary-school child, the order was old-style patbingsu (shaved ice with red beans) and a Sangha organic ice cream latte — the bingsu is about 1.5 times the size of a Sulbing one, loaded with chewy rice cakes, almonds, walnuts and whole red beans, enough to convert a child who disliked red beans. Seats at Hands Coffee are hard to win on weekends, but a window table facing Haemaji Bridge and the river pays it back.