Home Sick Bakery

I thought I reviewed this place!!! Last year I bought rainbow duk for my daughters 1^st. This place has the best one and I have had a lot! It compares to the ones in Korea! My aunt and uncle were even amazed!

Delicious rice cakes. We always order from here for special events — cakes, trays, etc. One of the best rice cake shops in SoCal.

Their rice cakes remind me of street vendors in korea. The cakes here are authentic and homemade. Glad I discovered this place.
It’s as close as I’ll get to my grandma’s dduk… the joy and delight of love shared in good food.
The regular cakes are packaged in the 5×10″ plastic trays and priced at $ 4.99. I complimented the owner on her store being a true gem to Garden Grove, so she hooked it up a bit. I’ll be back!!!
Btw… Their red bean dduk is amazing! I’m getting goose bumps just reflecting on the harmony of flavors,(or I hope that’s what they are.)

Really like this place. ordered several times and was always satisfied with their service and price. Already recommended this place to my friends and they were happy with them too.

This is has the best rice cake pastries ever! They are the producers (factory), their products are the ones that are sold in Korean markets. So come here for fresh products! Made everyday

We found this place while looking for some other place. The moment we saw the storefront we had to make a visit. I believe they mostly sell wholesale to Asian stores or markets. This «bakery» is their local shop.
There was a nice old man working the store when we visited. It’s definitely more of a Korean dduk or ddeok (rice cake) shop. It’s not so much of a bread bakery.
On the front of the store, they say they can freshly squeeze and produce sesame seed oil… interesting! It’s in a small plaza right on GG blvd so I guess that is useful! :P
They sell a variety of ddeoks — ovalettes for cooking ddeokguk, cylinders for ddeokbokgi, ready to eat ddeoks, event/​festive ddeoks, etc.
We got 1 of injeolmi ddeok and 1 of «rainbow» ddeok. They were both perfectly glutinous and had just the right texture and taste. The rainbow one was a bit on the dry side, which is common with this type of ddeok… but that doesn’t mean I want the dryness. The injeolmi was great — it was the exact stickiness and taste I wanted! I would definitely get this again.
If this place was closer to me, I would definitely visit more often.
This place is CASH ONLY.

I’m a first generation American born kid so I like to refer this place as «MOM’S Homesick Bakery» because my mom grew up in the hella boonies of S. Korean about 50 kilometers south of what’s now the border. And my mom… she always has, does now, and will ALWAYS love DDUK. And being preggers with me back in the 70’s, she tells me that she had eaten dduk everyday because I, too, have inherited this love of dduk.
This place brings back some old memories. Our family would have this routine of attending Sunday services, then heading up some Asian supermarket for weekly grub, and then this was our final stop and we’d eat dduk to hold us over until we got home in time to eat lunch.
It’s the good stuff. It’s bomb Korean style carbs before «carbs» became «CARBS». There’s all kinds of dduk but my favorites are the plain moo gee geh «rainbow» dduk or baek sal «white rice» ones with only raisins in them. I’m not a big «NUTS in my DDUK» person… But the others, I have NO IDEA what their names are… I just name them according to my experiences like… the «dduk with the brown flour over it that makes me choke» or «The black Gravel looking dduk», etc. They are all so good… the long schlong sausage like ones are also SO GOOD the next day when slightly fried over sesame oil and dipped in honey…
This place is MY home base for dduk. The crap they sell inside the supermarkets… who knows how long they’ve sat outside? The mochi with red bean paste be all hard: NO WAY! For the same price, I come here where I know everything is fresh and made the same day. Oh, and the discounted frozen dduk section at this place is the best for those bargain hunters as well.
I would say this place is the next best thing to dduk you get inside the she jangs (marketplaces) of Korea… at least the one near where my mom grew up in the countryside. It makes even this American born kid a little «homesick» just thinkin’ about it…