EWHA Dang Rice Bakery

Holy moly this place is good. I think any old Asian would love all the food here, especially #3. #3 is made of sweet rice, salt, sugar, jujube and pine nuts. It’s basically a healthy dense dessert. One tray with four hefty pieces costs $ 8.50. Pricey but worth it.

This is my first time trying Korean rice cake and I don’t know what to choose.
The owner is very polite, welcoming and looks professional. He tried to explain to me what they are made of and I had tasted the pumpkin rice cake before buying. I thought it would be very sweet but to my surprise it isn’t, which is very nice!
I go for a box of combination as I want to taste more kinds of different rice cakes. Good for breakfast and snacks.

After my horrific experience at Seoul Rice Cake Bakery, I needed to find another bakery for my daughter’s 100^th day rice cake. Enter EWHA Dang Rice Bakery. Service was excellent, and the rice cake was moist and delicious! The cake was smaller than the one from Seoul Rice Cake Bakery, but also cheaper. I will definitely be back to order her 1^st birthday rice cake.

A true gem! Best rice cake (dukk) in the bay area! They have different varieties you don’t see in the markets, as well as the standard dukbokki. Some of their dukk is good for breakfast because it’s not too sweet and some are kid-​friendly. The owners are well-​mannered, articulate, and it’s obvious they are true professional dduk makers. In Korea, it is an art form. This place is worth traveling to.

Fresh rice cake — lots of selection and they give out samples so you know what you are buying.
Very sweet owner — everything was clean. Definitely will be repeat customer.

I am a repeating customer. I remember the first time I bought two boxes, My friends and I finished them in one sitting. Good snack to have around, but eat them fast so they don’t get hard

Walked in one day to pre-​order some dduk for my mom’s 70^th birthday party. It was really easy to select from the packages they offered. The dduk was ready to go on the day of the party and wrapped nicely in a gift box.
A bit pricey but they are the best korean rice cakes I have had in the bay area.

Delicious rice cakes! :)

Friendly woman at the counter, and their rice cakes are delicious! They try to use pure, real ingredients (free of preservatives, so enjoy fresh!). My favorite is their strawberry-​flavored baekseolgi though their other stuff makes my mouth water too.

I love rice bakery goods. The goods are little bit pricier comapred to other places but the ingriedents used here are fresh and made from scratch with natural ingriedents. Talking briefly with one of the owners, I found out she has a background in nutrition. I’m glad to see that there are people still out there who cares about quality.

Interesting! They are known for this little sticky rice balls. It tasted pretty good. I am sure you can find these desserts at any Korean supermarket.
The lady at the counter was really nice and gave us detailed information about each dessert and a verbal explanation of how each were made. Interesting stuff. Felt like I was in a Korean history lesson deal. :)

I like their dduk, but they’re SO expensive for the amount that you buy. The dduk is definitely fresh, because I think they make it when you pre-​order and then some for walk-​ins. I remember that they only had 2 – 3 kinds when I went there to purchase one afternoon. My husband and I loved every morsel, but we only had few pieces.
I would recommend getting dduk at supermarkets (Hangook, Super Kyopo, Galleria) if you want dduk at good value. I really want to give this place more stars, but they’re just SO expensive compared to the supermarkets that have dduk also locally made (Seoul Bakery down the street).

Since the meal over at Kunjip wasn’t completely filling we walked into this bakery for dessert. Had a pretty good black sesame rice cake for the ride back to the office. The one lady there was very friendly and she offered samples for everything they had. I guess the large Korean community nearby keeps a place like this in business because it seems very specific for what they make. But then so is Kunjip two doors down I guess.

I have been in love with the place because of the freshness of the rice cakes. i still like it with no doubt.
but they really have to stop raising their prices so often. you barely can buy anything with 10 dollars now! i am sure that she needs to charge a certain amount to make the business working, but raising the price almost every other month is not good.
i heard that there is another rice cake place opening in SC, and hope this will stop ehwa from raising the price!

i knew there were a lot of koreans in the south bay. didn’t doubt it, but now, i know. this place opened recently and sells just korean rice cakes. i think they sell a couple other small side foods (that you have to order in advance), but their main business is traditional korean rice cakes, pronounced «tuck» with a really strong emphasis on the «u», almost guttural (kind of like when you have to hock a luugy).
it is a tiny, hole-​in-​the-​wall place in this small strip mall on Kiely. almost entirely composed of korean vendors, the kind that come here and don’t learn english (cause there are so many koreans they don’t have to).
if you have never had korean rice cakes before, you probably won’t get it — it is an acquired taste. but if you like them, the ones they make here are really good, all hand-​made, natural ingredients, no preservatives. Monday, ⁹⁄₂₄ was the Korean «chosun» or thanksgiving holiday. They had a fantastic array of special rice cake flavors, not to mentioned, for a place that opened recently, it was jam packed with people. it is pricey, but the cakes you get here are like the kind you can get in those little shops in Seoul. i think historically, mostly royalty and very rich ate these cakes. otherwise, they were for special occasions, like a wedding or child’s 90 day birth celebration.
the flavors i tried on that first visit were sesame, strawberry, hoobak or squash, and the traditional round ones (i think they are called «soong pyoun») with slightly sweetened bean paste inside. i personally liked the sesame ones the best. the strawberry and squash were very fresh, but came in the type that is slightly crumbly and dry. the round soong pyoun are literally pressed together in hand (looks like the inside of a fist). they typically come in green and white. the green ones have this herb mixed into it, which gives it an odd, almost medicinal taste. Koreans LOVE that stuff. i didn’t care for the aftertaste or the unique odor. it is pricey: $ 5 for a small container of sesame rice cakes (in the pic i uploaded), and $ 10 for the next size up. best to go in the mornings, when they have more selection. like any bakery, they run out of the best stuff by early afternoon. 3 stars b/​c it is pricey, limited selection, and i believe, takes cash only. 5 stars on taste.
Anyways, I am sure they have a bunch of fresh-​off-​the-​boat korean ladies all squatting in the back, making these each morning. ha ha… :) kind of the same way they make traditional kimchee.