Mango café in Jocheon, Jeju: ₩49,000 bingsu for two at Lala Cafe

I had such a fun time traveling around Jeju. While hunting for good food, I found a truly delicious apple mango bingsu (shaved ice dessert). More Jeju spots to come, keep an eye out!

I love mango bingsu so much I've tried it all over, but this was the place where the mango melted the second it hit my mouth, with intense sweetness spreading through.

Where is Lala Cafe in Jocheon, Jeju, and what are the hours?

This is Lala Cafe's fresh mango bingsu, located in Jocheon, Jeju. The address is 1843-1, 1F, Unit 201, Namjoro, Jocheon-eup, Jeju-si, Jeju, South Korea.

• Lala Cafe / 1843-1, 1F, Unit 201, Namjoro, Jocheon-eup, Jeju-si, Jeju, South Korea
• Daily 09:00–20:00
• Parking available in front of the store

Lala Cafe menu and prices

Coffee

• Americano: HOT ₩5,000 / ICE ₩5,500
• Espresso double shot: ₩6,000
• Café Latte: HOT ₩6,000 / ICE ₩6,500
• Dolce Latte: HOT ₩6,000 / ICE ₩6,500
• Vanilla Latte: HOT ₩6,000 / ICE ₩6,500
• Choco Latte: HOT ₩6,000 / ICE ₩7,000
• Jeju Matcha Latte: HOT ₩6,000 / ICE ₩6,500
• Misutgaru (roasted grain) Coffee: HOT ₩6,000 / ICE ₩6,500
• Seolhyang Strawberry Latte: ₩7,000
• Udo Peanut Caramel Latte: HOT ₩7,000 / ICE ₩7,500
• Ube Latte: ₩7,000

Ades and smoothies

• Plain Smoothie: ₩6,000
• Strawberry Smoothie: ₩7,000
• Blueberry Smoothie: ₩7,000
• Misutgaru Smoothie: ₩7,000
• Grapefruit Ade: ₩7,000
• Handmade Jeju Hallabong Ade: ₩8,000
• Handmade Yeongyul (green tangerine) Ade: ₩8,000
• Handmade Jeju Cheonggyul Ade: ₩8,000
• Fresh Watermelon Juice: ₩8,000
• Green Tangerine & Mango Juice (bottled): ₩6,000
• Jeju Apple Mango Juice: ₩14,000
• Jeju Apple Mango Smoothie: ₩14,000
• Jeju Apple Mango Yogurt Smoothie: ₩14,000

Tea

• Iced Tea: ₩5,000
• Organic Chamomile Tea: ₩5,000
• Jeju Samda Tangerine & Pear Tea: ₩6,500
• Organic Canola Flower Tea: ₩6,500
• Grapefruit Tea: ₩7,000
• Jeju Handmade Green Tangerine Tea: ₩7,000
• Handmade Yeongyul Tea: ₩8,000
• Handmade Hallabong Tea: ₩8,000

Jeju fresh apple mango specials and seasonal menu

• Snow Ice Old-Style Bingsu: ₩29,000
• Fresh Apple Mango Slices: ₩30,000
• Fresh Apple Mango Bingsu (for 2): ₩49,000
• Fresh Apple Mango Bingsu (for 4): ₩69,000
• Apple Mango Gift Set: ₩50,000 (premium fresh mango from Theme Farm)

※ Switching to decaf adds ₩500.

What the inside of Lala Cafe looks like

Lala Cafe is close to eastern Jeju attractions like Ecoland, Sangumburi, and Saryeoni Forest Trail, making it a great stop during a road trip.

The space was clean and pleasant, with generous spacing between tables — comfortable for a short rest.

The tables are spacious and the store itself is roomy enough to comfortably fit a large family group!

There wasn't a speck of dust anywhere in the store. You could really tell the owner has a tidy personality, haha.

The restroom matters at a café too, right? It was kept spotless, making this a perfect stop for a break during a long drive.

They bring in apple mangoes directly from a mango-famous theme farm, so there were quite a few mango-related menu items.

There's mango cake too, and sweet apple mango jelly, which seemed perfect to snack on one at a time during Jeju's many road trips.

With americano, lattes, and misutgaru coffee also on offer, people of all ages can find something to enjoy.

Lala Cafe also had a wide variety of bakery items, so it was fun picking out a dessert!

Even the sliced bread is individually packaged, great for a quick pickup on the go.

Being individually wrapped means you don't need to use tongs to grab it — hygienic and nice.

There's also 100% tangerine and hallabong pressed juice, perfect for going with kids.

It's kind of boring to just have coffee at a café, right? Haha, at least for me.

There's quite a lot of bakery items, so it's a great spot for coffee time.

There were more varieties of bread than I expected, so picking a menu item took some real deliberation, haha.

If you eat the pretzel meringue without thinking, you'll polish off a whole tub in an instant. Goes great with coffee, haha.

How much mango is in the ₩49,000 bingsu for two?

Lala Cafe's signature dish is the Jeju fresh apple mango bingsu. That day I ordered the fresh mango bingsu for two at ₩49,000 and an iced americano at ₩5,500.

• Fresh Mango Bingsu (for 2): ₩49,000
• Fresh Mango Hot-Pot Bingsu (for 4): ₩69,000
• Iced Americano: ₩5,500

The size-for-2 comes with about 2 apple mangoes, and the size-for-4 has about 3.5. That's generous.

Once I checked the amount of fresh mango going in, I understood exactly what it meant to say they don't skimp.

Tree-ripened fresh apple mango, not frozen

I tried the mango on its own first, and the moment it hit my mouth, sweet juice spread through and it melted softly.

They use apple mangoes grown on the same farm that supplies famous hotels, and the owner personally checks the fruit to select only well-ripened mangoes.

There's no syrup at all in the fresh mango bingsu. The mango purée served on the side, according to the owner, is the best apple mango purée with the highest mango content he could find.

The amount of mango going into a single bowl of bingsu is substantial, and they don't hold back on the good stuff

— you can really feel this is a place that's serious about mango bingsu.

The first bite is best enjoyed as pure, unadorned apple mango flavor, haha.

Adding mango purée and condensed milk halfway through

Once you've picked out a good amount of the mango, you can add mango purée and condensed milk to taste over the remaining milk ice.

Adding mango purée to the soft milk ice brings a bright, intense mango scent, and a light drizzle of condensed milk brings out a sweet, nutty richness.

At first, you eat just the fresh mango, then in the middle you scoop mango and milk ice together

and finally you mix in purée and condensed milk — a single bingsu that lets you enjoy several different flavors.

That Theme Farm apple mango was seriously delicious! It was so good I even took a close-up shot of the mango, haha.

At a Seoul hotel, this would easily cost over ₩100,000, but I got to enjoy bingsu made with the same mango, to my heart's content, in Jeju, haha.

The iced americano with Fritz beans at Lala Cafe

The owner is serious about coffee too, using beans from Fritz Coffee, one of Seoul's top three coffee roasters, haha.

After the mango bingsu, I washed it down with a Fritz iced americano, haha.

Even the size-for-2 was generous enough to include about 2 apple mangoes, which I really appreciated. If you're looking for fresh apple mango bingsu in Jeju, not the frozen kind, go check out Lala Cafe!

And my Jeju food tour continues, haha.