Jin's Donuts — Restaurant in Farmers Branch

A great donut shop with some interesting flair!

For a more detailed review read on! A note about the reviewer. My family has owned donut shops for 40+ years and myself I worked for 10+ years so I get a bit picky with donuts. With that warning here you go!

I was a bit surprised at first bite at the firmness of the donuts. It was airy and not overcooked, yet had a resistance when you tore it apart which is unusual. The flavor was good, although the glaze could have used a touch of imitation butter vanilla to cut the sweetness.

The proof lines also showed a good lengthy final proof but the mystery of the dough used continued as the donut showed a slight skew as though the weight of the donut caused it to fall to the side during proofing. The donut was not very tall in fact it was perfectly sized.

The chocolate was nice and balanced with no pre-glazing which many commercial donut shops use to make the donut last longer on the shelf and no coffee flavor as that is often the thing used to thin out chocolate before dipping.

The jalapeno Kolache was a pleasant treat as I found that there was an actual piece of Jalapeno inside. Gave it a better flavor than the ones which have sausage processed with jalapeno inside.

I think I finally figured out the dough mystery though. They also make Cronuts (Croissant Donuts) here and I now wonder if the dough used for the Cronuts and the regular donuts are the same but without the lamination that goes into Croissant making.

I will definitely be back again to...

First time trying this place out. Ordered delivery via UberEats.

Glazed Donut - Donut appears to be unevenly glazed, with some areas not having glaze. Flavor and texture is pretty typical.

Glazed Donut Holes - Unevenly glazed (like the regular glazed donut). Pretty standard donut holes.

Filling Donut, raspberry - Filling is all the way through. Raspberry filling has jelly-like consistency instead of jam - more watery, but contains seeds. Raspberry flavor is quite artificial tasting.

Cronut - Texture is light and flaky. Good standard cronut, but IMO WAY overpriced for a standard sized, standard flavor, standard Cronut.

Cronut Holes - Interesting shapes - Some circles and mostly triangles. Along with the Cronut, it looks like they were originally large square pastries that were cut into donut shapes. Good standard Cronut holes.

Overall, I thought everything was pretty standard. I was not impressed by anything, nor was anything bad or disappointing. The pricing was good compared to the areas for everything except the cronut, which I thought was way too expensive for the product. I would not necessarily recommend this place over other donut shops in the area, but I would order...

Okay so I don't know how the hell this place has a 4.8 rating because to be honest I've been going there since I moved to an apartment nearby and the lady that works there is always incredibly rude krase and seems annoyed that she has to be there or something...unfortunately I have recently became temporarily homeless because my one bedroom apartment was $1,500 which is outrageous in my opinion for Dallas been here 24 years this is getting ridiculous but anyway that's not the issue here. I was thirsty I'm staying in a tent off the railroad near the donut store so I thought maybe I could get a cup of water from them considering hell it's just water there's cups for coffee and is a water faucet right behind her register I was denied water, she wanted a dollar for it, I'm homeless lady I don't have a dollar obviously... wow freaking amazing how wonderful this...