Dong Bang Mi-In Contemporary Food

Dong Ban Mi In is a fantastic place for wedding favors. I was looking for traditional rice cakes with beautiful packaging, this was the perfect place. It is reasonably priced and they have everything made, wrapped, packaged and ready for pick up for your wedding day. Only thing is, they do not deliver, so you’ll have to designate a person to pick up and deliver for you.

I love ricecake but its so hard to find a place where they don’t use artificial food coloring.
Whenever I go to Korea, I would visit exquisite and rare ricecake house like do soo hyang, bi won and bit eun and bring it back to US as a gift. Dong Bang Mi In is very close to those boutique rice cake shops.
I love how they use finest ingredients to make these dducks. The colors aren’t artificial but they are made from real food. Their hodoo gwa ja is made with barely flour too. Their dduck is not overly sweet either. I would rather pay more for good quality food. I also like how their dduck comes in small sizes. The other stores dduck is so big that I never end up finishing it. Try the ones with nuts and seeds! The plain brown rice cakes (frozen ones) make great snack. Just thaw it for an hour and you’ll still have soft chewy rice cake. Their Yak Gwa (korean traditional cookie) is also phenomenal, nothing close to market bought ones.
I also give these as a gift. Their gift boxes are gorgeous. People love it whenever I gift them. Their song pyun is extraordinary. People always tell me that its too pretty to consume! (:
I am also surprised that they have traditional korean dducks you don’t find anywhere else like doo tup dduck and huk im ja dduck.

This is one of my favorite two Korean rice pastry shops in Koreatown. Everything here is beautifully made and packaged ready for gifting. I’ve gotten a few things here before (I don’t know their names… Yes, I am hanging my head low as I am a Korean-​American. I’ve shamed my ancestors.) and everything was delightful. Not heavy like some other rice pastries I’ve had at other shops, it delivers the art of Korean rice pastry.
Nearest Metro Station: Purple Line at Wilshire/​Western Station — Not within walking distance

The rice cakes are made perfectly! They are not too sweet and chewy. I’m not sure how much my gift set was because I got it as a gift but I’m guessing it was pretty pricey because I saw some of the pictures on Unilocal with the prices on them. It’s a good thing that they are not too sweet because rice cakes are kinda hard to finish when they are too sweet. The honey cakes (aka the rice cakes with the sweet popping filling inside of them was my favorite. I’ll stop but and try the injulmi next time tho cause that’s one of my favorites

Their packaging is beautiful.
I preordered a little $ 40 gift set.
Perfect gift for Korean parents.

This place sells the most amazing rice cakes and mochi! It’s located inside the Galleria market, right as you walk in the door to the grocery store on the bottom floor.
Freshly made daily and most are individually packaged. Highly recommend the mochi — so soft and chewy with such good filling. They add a very subtle touch of complex flavor components (i.e., yuzu, cardamom) to the fillings that set them apart from mochi and rice cakes at other places. Their traditional rice cakes aren’t too sweet and the consistency is just perfectly chewy.
This place is pretty pricey, but I think the quality is well worth it. Seriously the best mochi I’ve ever had!

I really love this place for their rice cakes — they’re not too sweet and they have just a bit of filling. Of their regular rice cakes, strawberry is probably my favorite. And then their honey– and sesame-​filled rice cakes are to die for — we love these so much we gave them out as favors for our daughter’s first birthday party. My husband loves their bori hodo (walnut-​shaped pastry filled with red beans), and I also really like their bungeoppang (fish-​shaped pastry filled with custard). Their sujeonggwa (Korean persimmon punch) and shikhye (Korean rice punch) are quite tasty as well.

My go-​to place to buy Korean rice cakes! My favorite here is the in-​jul-​me which is their «sweet rice cake» that comes in a small box. It is definitely a lot pricier than normal injunme you can find but it’s my favorite one in Ktown so far and I actually like how it’s in a small packaging you can actually finish, since rice cakes do not last very long.
I also love their individual-​packaged rice cakes in so many different flavors. I’ve tried few and they were all very tasty.
Even their shik-​hae (Korean rice drink) was not bad even though you sure can find better ones in Ktown, I like how they are in those boba to-​go cups.
They also have the «prettiest» selection of traditional Korean rice cakes which I think would make great gifts!

Rice cake place that sells tiny square rice cakes that are over priced! And they sell cocohodo walnuts with red beans inside of it. Typical, nothing special.

We were in K-​town and stopped by the Galleria Market. My coworkers like the traditional Korean rice cakes, so I wanted to pick some up for them and of course for us as well.
They have a pretty good selection of rice cakes and other desserts and snacks. They all tasted good and their price is not bad. Whenever we’re in LA, I like to shop at the Korean markets and it’s very convenient that we can stop at this place on our way out.

3 korean rice cakes for $ 1.75 each.
Purple rice cake: It’s kinda good. I am guessing that one is bluebery because the jam inside tastes like blueberry.
Yellow with beans: not a fan of that one.
White rice cake with brown rice cake inside: this is probably the hazelnut with chocolate chips inside. It’s not bad.
The rice cakes are priced from $ 1.50-$ 1.90. Some of the flavors: hazelnut, strawberry, blueberry, and green pea. They are all mixed up so you don’t really know what you are buying. The rice cakes used to be so organized when they first opened the store.
You can also buy:
— Bori hodo (15 for $ 5.00): Korean walnut cookies AKA hodo gwaja.
— Bungeoppang (9 for $ 3.00): AKA Korean taiyaki (fish-​shaped cakes). The larger ones are 2 for $ 5.00.
–Assorted gift set from $ 5.50-$ 12.00: black sesame and green bean.
Located inside Koreatown Galleria plaza, this cute rice cake house accepts credit cards with $ 10.00 minimum purchase.
I wonder if Dong Bang and Cake House owners are the same. Dong Bang uses the same Cake House plastic bag. This place is located right next to Cake House and now Cake House sells hodo gwaja also.
3.5 stars!
Dong Bang Mi-​In is kinda yummylicious!

I really like their «duk», a Korean rice pastry that can be chewy and crumbly.
They’re usually healthy Korean desserts and have been in the culture for quite some time (hundreds of years). What I like about this place is that they mix Western ingredients to this traditional pastry like blueberries, strawberries, and other ingredients and even have the filling inside of them, when traditionally they used sesame seeds, sweet red bean paste, honey, and others.
I sampled three of them (I forgot) and they were 2.50 each, which is VERY pricey for «duk», but it was good and when I’m in the mood, I would treat myself to one of these goodies.

They’ve gotta simplify their business name. On the business card it reads: «Dong Bang Mi-​In,» «Contem Porary Food,» and «Contem Porary Food Beverage.»
I say they just call themselves «Dong Bang Mi-​In.» Keep it Asian. After all it’s a Korean shop. «Contem Porary Food» sounds generic and wannabe American gastropub-​ish.
Other than that, I love how you can watch the cream-​filled fish desserts be made! It’s quite a cute sight as the steel molds flip and turn like a dainty little lady. Though at the same time it made me melancholic because once upon a time, people used to make them by hand. Human-​made desserts aren’t always perfect; cream explodes from the sides and all kinds of unexpected fine artistical moments. Ah, the endearing charms of hand-​made desserts…
The next time you swing by Galleria market, make sure you try some of their goodies! Especially the cream-​filled fish desserts: D Btw, they’re not real fish, silly.