Mochinut — Restaurant in Garden Grove

There’s four locations in the surrounding area but they all carry different daily flavors. I ended up calling two nearby locations to ask for their daily flavors. You can also go on IG for each location. On this particular day (4/23/21), they both carry 7 flavors and only 3 overlapped. The 3 were churro, Korean churro and original. I was getting 6 from each location so only one flavor would be doubled down.

It’s $15 for 6 or $30 for a dozen. You can get 3 for 7.50. It’s not cheaper to get more, all the prices are equally split.

The Garden Grove location is in the same plaza as Ding Tea and Somi Somi. Some flavors stood out more than others. It’s the same mochi donut base, only the toppings gave the flavor.

*Churro - cinnamon sugar applied on both sides. My favorite. Tastes just like a moist churro. *Jasmin Green tea - Another one of my favorite because you could taste the green tea, it was strong. *Korean churro - This is black sesame applied all around. Bland and I got sesame stuff in my teeth. *Cookies and cream - had a cookie and cream pokey stix. *Taro pebble - Faint in flavor and not so sweet. What enhanced the flavor was the fruity pebbles which added the sweetness and crunch. *Watermelon - basically a watermelon flavor glazed. This flavor stood out. It tasted like Bubble Yum flavor. My friend said it reminded her of Now A later or Jolly Rancher flavor. Bottom line, it taste like candy flavor. Original - We skipped out on this on this location.

We went to the next location in T&K Plaza next door to Kung Fu Tea at the Westminister location:

*Pandan - The color was not green and can’t taste the pandan, only tasted the shredded coconut. *White chocolate - Couldn’t taste the flavor *Biscoff - it’s like an original glazed, very light. Also can’t taste the flavor. Had a biscoff on top. **Red velvet - faint in flavor Churro - skipped this flavor at this location *Original glazed - Amazing but doesn’t beat KK. The glazed is at the top half. My favorite. Korean churro which is black sesame. Skipped this one.

Overall, my top three were original, churro and jasmin green tea. Make sense why original, churro and Korean churro were at at both locations.

Recommend to eat while it’s warm to get the full effect. We had it two hours later so it may have factored in the chewiness...

I apologize upfront for what seems like a harsh review. I am just being honest here and I really want to see this business succeed (always want to see local businesses succeed, it helps our economy, gives folks work, and provides variety for consumers).

Let me also start of by saying the front end workers are great, very friendly and working very quickly but if I were willing to bet they probably hate working here.

If you're there for hotdogs, service is going to be slow (took about 45 minutes between ordering and receiving my order of four dogs, there were two families in front of me, I can only imagine how long the wait is when the line is longer). It takes time to cook those things, no way around that. It's not without effort, you can see the fry cooks going non-stop.

But really, the ambience here is like some little shack on the Vegas strips. Loud music, flashy lighting, and my favorite (🤮) a large screen showing various mukbangs of their food from different "influencers." Call me old fashioned, but I'm not interested in watching these narcissists eat in HD. I get straight up dystopian vibes from this place, and that's simply my opinion. Sorry, again, for being so harsh.

The food is what it is. The hot dogs used doesn't seem like the best quality, and it's just fried, chewy dough. It was nice to try but not something I'd crave personally. I'd probably come back for donuts. I would be tempted to try their drinks but there are SOOO many better boba options around.

I honestly think this place could use a little bit of Feng Shui. Maybe instead of super energetic music, play something a little more laid back and relaxing for folks who are waiting. You're in Koreatown, I'd go for a more bright, clean, and calm ambience. There's just too much frantic energy, couple that with impatient customers and you really get a terrible dissonance. I would also suggest streamlining workflow for front end staff by allowing them to focus on taking orders and getting orders out. Even though there are just two of them they are practically tripping over each other trying to do their...

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