Home Sick Bakery

1. The kimbap had a lot of ingredients, and the rice rolls were delicious and not too sweet!2. The spot has busy casual vibes since they are a local supplier of the HMart nearby!3. There are no tables for dining in!4. The staff were friendly and timely with my order!5. Parking lot is small!Note: There are no restrooms available for customers!Photo: Pumpkin Tteok and Kimbap

TLDR: currently my favorite place for tteok This place has basically all of my favorites:- Jeungpyeon or sool-tteok (alcohol rice cake) basically tastes like the child of rice cake and white sandwich bread and has a faint alcohol smell from the makgeolli (fermented rice wine) it is made with. In the U.S., it is usually a poofy cube topped with black sesame seeds and slivered almonds. It is pretty plain in flavor but I LOVE its texture and it is has the addicting subtle bready sweetness of carbs. - Chal bam tteok (sweet rice chestnut rice cake) is a variation of my favorite kind of rice cake. It's made with sweet rice flour instead of regular rice flour, which makes it even chewier and almost transparent in color. This one is topped with sweet chestnuts, cranberries, dried peas, and dried strips of pumpkin. The bottom is dipped in a crumbled pumpkin(?) that has the texture of rough and dry crushed Korean sweet potato. I love that it's super chewy, slightly sweet, and has diverse textures from all the toppings. I don't recall trying their injeolmi (soybean rice cake), jeolpyeon (plain regular rice cake), or hobakmari (pumpkin rolls) but they were all soft to the touch and looked great so will be trying them next time:)

Very cute and small shop with limited parking. Their rice cakes and kimbap are so good! I highly recommend coming early in the morning because they're low on options towards the end of the day. Their rice cakes are also sold at H-Mart across the street.

Cute little place with a very affordable array of goodies. Love the rice products. I tried a sampler.

Very good rice cakes. Comparable to Korea! Me and my mom really enjoyed being able to try this on our trip to California

Love Home Sick Bakery's rice cakes and kimbap! They use all natural ingredients for their rice cakes so you can definitely tell difference from other brand rice cakes. Their kimbap taste just like homemade and don't have after taste that won't make you indigested. HSB also sells house made sesame oil and multi grain powders which are must try! Perfect place to order tray size for party or special occasion. Make sure to take cash with you and it will be worth it!

We went Korean bakery hopping today and Home Sick Bakery, aka "H.S. Bakery" on label was our last stop. Not sure what it is called but it is bite-sized rice cake w peanuts in some pieces, covered in fine mung bean powder. If you like Vietnamese "banh day dau", you will LOVE these even MUCH MORE. They are so good that a few sample pieces ended up being half a tray that I inhaled in minutes. Highly recommend and will definitely be back. Thanks, nice Korean man who had to stop working in the kitchen to ring up our 1 rice cake tray, with a smile.PS. We sampled the same rice cake covered in beige bean powder at Han Yang bakery and it was no comparison, dry and crumbly with zero chewy texture.

Their rice cakes remind me of street vendors in korea. The cakes here are authentic and homemade. Glad I discovered this place.It's as close as I'll get to my grandma's dduk... the joy and delight of love shared in good food.The regular cakes are packaged in the 5x10" plastic trays and priced at $4.99. I complimented the owner on her store being a true gem to Garden Grove, so she hooked it up a bit. I'll be back!!!Btw... Their red bean dduk is amazing! I'm getting goose bumps just reflecting on the harmony of flavors,(or I hope that's what they are.)

We found this place while looking for some other place. The moment we saw the storefront we had to make a visit. I believe they mostly sell wholesale to Asian stores or markets. This "bakery" is their local shop.There was a nice old man working the store when we visited. It's definitely more of a Korean dduk or ddeok (rice cake) shop. It's not so much of a bread bakery. On the front of the store, they say they can freshly squeeze and produce sesame seed oil....interesting! It's in a small plaza right on GG blvd so I guess that is useful! :PThey sell a variety of ddeoks - ovalettes for cooking ddeokguk, cylinders for ddeokbokgi, ready to eat ddeoks, event/festive ddeoks, etc. We got 1 of injeolmi ddeok and 1 of "rainbow" ddeok. They were both perfectly glutinous and had just the right texture and taste. The rainbow one was a bit on the dry side, which is common with this type of ddeok...but that doesn't mean I want the dryness. The injeolmi was great - it was the exact stickiness and taste I wanted! I would definitely get this again. If this place was closer to me, I would definitely visit more often. This place is CASH ONLY.

I'm a first generation American born kid so I like to refer this place as "MOM'S Homesick Bakery" because my mom grew up in the hella boonies of S. Korean about 50 kilometers south of what's now the border. And my mom.... she always has, does now, and will ALWAYS love DDUK. And being preggers with me back in the 70's, she tells me that she had eaten dduk everyday because I, too, have inherited this love of dduk. This place brings back some old memories. Our family would have this routine of attending Sunday services, then heading up some Asian supermarket for weekly grub, and then this was our final stop and we'd eat dduk to hold us over until we got home in time to eat lunch. It's the good stuff. It's bomb Korean style carbs before "carbs" became "CARBS". There's all kinds of dduk but my favorites are the plain moo gee geh "rainbow" dduk or baek sal "white rice" ones with only raisins in them. I'm not a big "NUTS in my DDUK" person.... But the others, I have NO IDEA what their names are.... I just name them according to my experiences like... the "dduk with the brown flour over it that makes me choke" or "The black Gravel looking dduk", etc. They are all so good.... the long schlong sausage like ones are also SO GOOD the next day when slightly fried over sesame oil and dipped in honey.... This place is MY home base for dduk. The crap they sell inside the supermarkets... who knows how long they've sat outside? The mochi with red bean paste be all hard: NO WAY! For the same price, I come here where I know everything is fresh and made the same day. Oh, and the discounted frozen dduk section at this place is the best for those bargain hunters as well. I would say this place is the next best thing to dduk you get inside the she jangs (marketplaces) of Korea... at least the one near where my mom grew up in the countryside. It makes even this American born kid a little "homesick" just thinkin' about it....