Donut King

I’m Not a fan of doughnuts, I usually buy them for my family. So decided to try this place since its on my way home. At the time I stopped by, not too much to choose from, so I’m thinking if I go back, that I’ll have to stop by in the morning.

I went to this place for the first time on 7÷24÷14 around 1:15pm. I saw their catchy LED sign that advertises boba so I decided to give this place a try, being close to the 101 freeway and all.
The only thing I bought was their ice blended vanilla boba. I was charged $ 3.50, which is not a bad price for boba.
Upon my first sip, I felt that the texture of the boba was soft and mushy. However, the taste was a bit weird. I couldn’t place my finger on it. The vanilla tasted powdery and I wouldn’t be able to say if coffee was one of the ingredients. Anyway, I got onto the 101 freeway as i had my second sip. To my horror, I got a mouth full of something metallic-​tasting, which crumbled inside my mouth upon contact. I spat out the contents to find CHUNKS of char from inside the cup.
Mind you, this is all happening inside my car as I’m driving on the freeway.
To make a long story short, I don’t recommend this place for boba. If they’re going to be advertising boba they should at least have the decency to make it right.

You guys! This place isn’t so bad. In fact, we were pleasantly surprised. We read the four other reviews of Donut King and were a little bit nervous to try out a donut from this place, but guess what? Their C health department grade is now an A! Good on you Donut King for getting your act together. We did not see any gangs, unless the old man with a silver tray was a gang leader of sorts… but I highly doubt it.
We went in the morning time. I ordered a sugar twist that was light and fluffy, and had a tinge of carnival/​fair dirty greasiness to it, as did my partner’s strawberry filled donut. The Strawberry filling was very mediocre, but the texture of the donut was quite fabulous. Perhaps stay away from the fruit filled donuts, unless you enjoy the gelatinous jelly… then go for it. If we could, we would give Donut King 3.5 stars out of 5, alas we cannot, so 4 it is.
If you’re in the neighborhood and really want a donut, this place isn’t bad. The coffee is pretty good too, for donut shop coffee. They also have a large assortment of Mexican sweet breads.

its ok. gang infested. quality of cakes are ok. too dark inside. workers are friendly.

Terrible! Donuts were stale even in the morning. I found what appeared to be a rat tird in mine which stunned me until I saw the ”C” rating on the front of the store and the terrible bee infestation covering a 20% of the restaurant wall!

Donut I had here late in the evening was stale (which is okay because hey it’s the end of the day). But it was also one of the weirdest old fashioned chocolate buttermilk donuts I’ve had.

Stopped here on the way back to the car at midnight. There wasn’t much to choose from at the time, so I got a cake donut with sprinkles. They weren’t the traditional jimmies (sprinkles) that you see on a donut, but more like a confetti sprinkle.
It was interesting.
The donut was moist the sprinkles were good.
Also had a chocolate buttermilk, which wasn’t that good.
All that being said, we wouldn’t seek this place out for future donuts. If I lived near it and there were no other donut places around then it’d do just fine.