Dokil Bakery

Cute place. All of their pastries are individually wrapped in plastic. so it’s really easy to get something to bring back home for a friend.
Their custard bun is very good.

On whim, we checked out this bakery. They have a vast selection of bean bread. They even have bean donut. I was not too fond of that, it was too oily and sweet. The bean manju was pretty good. We also tried the red bean and custard bread. They were a little too sweet for me and the bread was lacking something, maybe texture.
Overall, this place is A-​OK. I will probably check out other korean bakeries just for the sake of comparison. The lady that runs the shop is really nice. They have been there for a long time now.

This is my favorite Korean bakery in Chicago for Korean Breads (for rice cakes-​go to Nak Won)! I have a sweet tooth and I’m Korean. I tried New York Bakery, too, but this place is better. Their bread is fluffier and the taste is better and the texture is crunchier. I love the Peanut Crumb Bread (the round one with yummy crumbs), gumbo bbang, i think it’s called. Everything is fresh and made the day of! The prices here are cheaper, too, than NY Bakery. Go! You won’t be disappointed! I have good taste :). The baker is nice, too.

Dokil Bakery sends it’s baked goods everywhere! I’m in Dayton Ohio now and eating Bean Bread right now and loving it!
Picked this nice little pastry up at the Dong Yang Oriental Food and Gift Shop. Fantastic.

As good as it gets in Chicago! Best Korean bakery shop in town!!!

So delicious and inexpensive. It’s also very clean, pleasant and relaxing in there with large wooden tables by the window for good people-​watching and lots of sunlight. The girl at the counter was very nice and asked if I would like her to bring me a glass of water. I had the 4 miniature bean cakes which came with one red, one white and 2 green cakes. It was under $ 2.

Delicious butter cream buns. Its nice that they individually wrap them for you so you can get one on the way to wherever it is you are going and can just throw it in your purse or bag. And so conveniently located right near my house. My friend who was visiting from Boston was so impressed that you could get so many different cuisines in Albany Park. I will be stopping in again.

If I had lived closer, I would be frequenting Dokil Bakery on a daily basis. Most of the baked goods offered could easily satisfy even the sweetest of sweet tooths without the accompanying sugar rush. Buns and rolls I have tried were good, but what really stood our were the mini trio of buns. Each one had a different bean filling — from red bean to white bean to green bean. Clearly, this concept was designed for indecisive customers like myself, who never know what to get when faced with so many options.
Another favorite treat of mine are the mini baked Korean white bean cakes, which are typically sold by the dozen, if not more. (See picture.) It takes quite a bit of self-​restraint to not want to finish the entire package in one sitting. Price-​wise, I don’t find the bakery to be more expensive than the other ones I’ve been to. Quality, however, I find DB to deliver better than most.
And if you feel like you’re missing out on DB (and I’ll admit that you are!), check out your local Asian groceries as they may carry some of the aforementioned baked goods as well.

This Korean bakery offers a variety of pastries, buns, and cakes. But I was on the lookout for one item in particular — the Cream Bun. I’ve had them at New York Bakery and wanted to try their version of it.
I was happy to find it here, and I purchased a couple of them, plus an Almond Bun. The cream bun is an individually-​wrapped sweet roll filled with buttercream. The bread was soft, sweet and perfect with the buttercream. The almond bun consisted of an almond sponge cake that was also filled with buttercream. This particular buttercream was sweet and a bit salty, which was a nice surprise.
Dokil also has sponge cake rolls filled with buttercream (another favorite of mine), bread, cookies, and buns filled with sweet bean paste. I’ll definitely be back to try their other items.

I always come to to Dokil when I’m craving Korean pastries. Love the green and white bean buns, peanut crumb buns, custard buns, jelly roll cakes and korean cookies. Korean pastries are not too sweet and have a soft and spongy texture.

They have a lot of the bakery items that I usually find at home (in Hawaii). They have these really good things they call «nut ball».its a soft dough with a custardy cream and walnuts in it. soooo good! they give like 20 pieces for about 4 dollars or so… i think.

Big fan of their green & white bean buns and potato croquette donuts. This is a popular bakery that sells stuff you’ll typically find at Mitsuwa or chinatown, but done in a korean style. They also sell loaves of bread, cake rolls, and rice cakes. If the drive is too far, find their pastries at most korean groceries.