Blue Windmill Bakery

This place has very tasty Korean pastries, good coffee and wonderful customer service.

We found a gem in Gardena!
My hubby and I were craving for bappingsu after nice lunch at Uni club.
But I didn’t want to pay $ 12 for a bowl of shaved ice at Caffebene!
We were just crusing around the area then we found this cute little café in the plaza!
We bought some pastries, ordered coffee and bappingsu.
My mind was blown away when I saw this huge bappingsu coz it was only $ 5 !! 5 bucks only!
The cashier lady says that she likes to see her customers surprised and wowed by the serving size!
All their pastries and macaroons were tasty. I will definitely try some cakes next time!

My best advice to you is to get here right after they open. I did that twice and both times I came out with bread and pastries fresh out of the oven. They taste so heavenly when they’re freshly baked! I am also a fan of their sweet potato cake (super light, fluffy, and just the right amount of sweetness). I have enjoyed their patbingsoo, too, and it is quite satisfying. Although I’ve never had their coffee, my mother (who’s a coffee fanatic) gets their hazelnut coffee pretty often and she enjoys it.
P. S. Parking is a total breeze.

Not as fresh, about same price, not as much selection as 85 degree bakery a mile away, but lady owner is friendly and bread is still yummy.

This is a cute and cozy little Korean bakery in Gardena. I stopped by here after eating at Hwang’s the other night.
They have all kinds of cakes, freshly baked breads and Korean style pastries which are made using red bean as well as traditional croissants and muffins. Prices are super reasonable so that you could easily order several items if you want to purchase a variety of goodies which is what my buddy and I did.
We split a red bean-​filled donut and a pastry roll that had red bean paste as an ingredient. Both desserts were very tasty. I especially liked the donut with red bean filling as I’ve never had this combination before. Coffee was only $ 1.50 and you can enjoy it at one of the few tables inside or better yet, take advantage of the outside seating especially on a nice warm day.
All the goods are freshly baked on the premises and some of the cakes looked deliciously inviting.
I would return again sometime if in the area to enjoy more of the treats sold here.

There’s an old saying that all windmill owners in Holland must have a second job for when there is no wind. I guess being a Korean baker is a good choice.
Blue Windmill Bakery in the Seoul Plaza in Gardena is a Korean bakery with traditional breads, cakes, cookies, and snacks. Like many Asian-​esque bakeries, the sweetness factor on most has been turned down a notch or two. We got an assortment of pre-​packaged breads to go. The Corn or Cheese Cookies were the most tempting, but I think it is an acquired taste that I just don’t have, yet. The Fruit Cream Breads were beautiful which belied their plain taste. The driest was a slice of a mocha-​flavored Roll Castella while the best was a Sweet Rice Cake. The oddest? Well, that was a Green Bean Pastry with a dark green filling. I didn’t get it and now wish I had just to have tried it. Maybe next time.
To be honest, the breads weren’t spectacular and most were on the dry & plain side, however, the exuberant and outgoing owner (or manager) really was sweet. He puts the soul in Seoul Plaza and tiny Blue Windmill Bakery.

Stopped in here after Tofu Village, thinking it was a different bakery I’d mistakenly «found nearby.» A little disappointed at first when I found out it was not that bakery because it sounds like the other place has some bomb chewy chocolate cookies, which were not present at Blue Windmill. But let’s not cry over lost cookies…
This place reminds me a lot of the little bakeries I went to in Japan (perhaps because I don’t know enough about Korean bakeries yet). They have the little basket for you to fill with individually wrapped sweet breads and pastries. Housewives sip coffee and gossip at the corner rounds. (Well, I just assume that’s what’s going on. As with Korean bakeries, I’m no expert in the language either. Would like to be but…)
I bought a delicious sticky chocolate-​almond loaf that was squishy and fluffy but plenty flavorful. It actually was deceptively dangerous-​looking and weighed a ton, and turned out to be rather soft, light and yummy, with little fruits in the mix. It was like a chocolatey fruity Korean coffee cake with sticky almonds on top. My sis got some addictive almond cookies which we almost finished on the drive back to the office.
I wouldn’t mind coming back here. It’s a cute, little place, low-​key, and there were some other interesting items I’d like to try. I had to pace myself because I always end up going crazy at these bakeries and gaining ten pounds after I eat all the stuff I bought. They had this giant jelly wheel thing that I want to dig into. Next time, it’s mine!