MyFreshDash Online Asian Grocery 

Kongguksu is the kind of bowl that sounds almost too quiet to crave until the weather gets hot and everything else starts feeling like too much. No red sauce. No bubbling broth. No fried topping pile trying to prove anything.

The easiest way to make a disappointing bowl of patbingsu at home is to spend too much time thinking about the top of the bowl. That is where most people start. Fruit. Maybe ice cream. Maybe a drizzle of something sweet. It looks right for about three minutes.