Yangjae Station café for hotteok babka and watermelon juice: Mini Male

This is Mini Male Coffee Roaster Juam Branch, a café bakery in Yangjae.

Where is Mini Male Coffee Roaster Juam Branch, and when does it open?

Mini Male Coffee Roaster Juam Branch is at 38 Maeheon-ro 1-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Unit 102, near Yangjae Station. Hours are Mon–Sat 07:30–17:00, closed Sundays, and there are 2 parking spots beside the shop.

Today I went to Mini Male Coffee Roaster Juam Branch near Yangjae Station, a café where you can try an amazing latte made with really good beans!!

Since there are a lot of offices around Mini Male Coffee Roaster Juam Branch, there seem to be a lot of takeout orders too — there are 2 kiosks outside and one inside the store as well!!

The menu at Mini Male, from choosing your beans to watermelon juice

Since it's a proper coffee spot, you can choose your beans, and there are various coffee menus prepared like cold brew and lattes~!! Among them, the Helsinki latte is Mini Male Coffee Roaster's best menu item!!!

And since it's been hot lately, they're also selling watermelon juice, and it's really packed with real watermelon, no syrup at all!!!!

This place is also famous as a café bakery in Yangjae, and among everything, babka is the signature bread here~!! There's original babka, hotteok babka, pain au crème, pain au chocolat, egg tarts, and even levain cookies~!!

What we ordered at Mini Male Coffee Roaster Juam Branch

• Hotteok babka 5.8
• Egg tart 2.8
• Helsinki latte, beans - Dunkel 5.2
• Ttaengmoban Thai-style watermelon juice 6.3

Order complete!!

Inside Mini Male: about 16 seats and a trendy interior

Mini Male Coffee Roaster Juam Branch has about 16 seats, all done up in a really stylish, trendy interior~!

On the other side there's water available too, and the lighting above it is so pretty!?? I want it...

The bread comes out warmed with the drinks, so you can eat it warm~!!

How does the Helsinki latte with Dunkel beans taste?

The Helsinki latte I was most looking forward to!!!! The Dunkel beans themselves have notes of milk chocolate, honey, and almond, and it's so nutty from the very first sip..!!! It's a latte but feels like soy milk, so it was really delicious!!!

The ttaengmoban was also perfect for a hot summer day, refreshing and hydrating!!! No syrup added so it's not overly sweet — you get the watermelon's natural sweetness, which felt nice and not artificial!!!!

Hotteok babka and egg tart at Mini Male, served warm

And now the hotteok babka and egg tart!!!

I'd never seen hotteok babka (hotteok: sweet Korean pancake) before so I was super curious and ordered it — between the rolled layers of the bread, it's filled with the cinnamon and sugar filling from hotteok, so it smells great and is a sweet bread~!!

And the egg tart!! It seems to be Portuguese-style egg tart, with layered pastry packed full of a rich yet soft egg filling — it's light but nails both texture and taste!!! Each bite of the egg tart disappeared so fast it was almost a shame, it just melted in my mouth~!! Confirmed: a top café bakery spot in Yangjae~~!!!!

Mini Male Coffee Roaster Juam Branch, serious about beans — a top café bakery spot in Yangjae for outstanding coffee and distinctive desserts