Hwangnidang-gil dessert shop, persimmon sando gift set: Tareudang

As a dessert lover and mochi lover, I stop by Tareudang pretty much every time I'm in Hwangnidang-gil, and I heard they'd just launched a new dried persimmon sando. I was curious what it tasted like, so I tried it right away on my Gyeongju trip.

What kind of shop is Tareudang?

Tareudang is a fruit mochi and dried persimmon sando takeout shop at 49 Sajeong-ro, Hwangnidang-gil, Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk. It's famous for Gyeongju mochi and the Hwangnidang-gil fruit mochi.

So many people come by just to pack up the fruit mochi and dried persimmon sando.

Tareudang hours and the four-mochi discount

📍 Opens 11:00 AM 📍 Closes 7:00 PM Check the hours before you visit.

They also give you ₩500 off per mochi when you buy 4 or more.

What's on the Tareudang menu?

When I visited, they said the Dubai-style menu item had been discontinued. Since it's mochi with fruit inside, the lineup shifts a bit with the seasons, so keep that in mind when you go.

The egg tarts looked good too — nice and big.

How much does a Tareudang persimmon sando cost?

Here's the pricing for the currently trending dried persimmon sando.

• Red bean butter fig ₩5,000
• Matcha pistachio ₩5,000
• Injeolmi (rice-cake powder) red bean ₩5,000
• Black sesame walnut ₩5,000
• Strawberry ₩5,000
• Ube coconut ₩5,000
• Persimmon sando six-pack ₩29,000
• Six-pack bojagi wrap ₩32,000

A bojagi-wrapped six-pack of the persimmon sando would be great to bring for Chuseok and share with family.

Raw chocolate mochi, ₩6,000. I'd already tried the fruit mochi, so this time I picked up the new raw chocolate mochi too.

How Tareudang packs the persimmon sando set

Tareudang's desserts each come in their own plastic container, so they don't lose their shape even when you're carrying them around.

If you leave a receipt review, you can get cooler-bag packing as a free service.

The sun's still hot in the daytime, so I'd recommend getting the cooler-bag packing.

How the raw chocolate mochi tastes

I tried Tareudang's raw chocolate mochi as soon as I got home. It really looks like a chapssal donut haha 😋

Thick raw chocolate that leaves a proper bite mark, wrapped around chewy chapssal (glutinous rice cake). It was even softer with the chocolate castella powder coating the outside. Just remember the mochi needs to be eaten the same day.

I already love persimmons in general — dried, half-dried, soft ripened, or crisp — so as an eater, I'm genuinely grateful someone thought to turn dried persimmon into a dessert like this. Also proof that it's cheaper and tastier to just buy dessert bakery items than to make them yourself haha 😋

Four persimmon sando flavors compared

Fig red-bean butter persimmon sando

Dried fig with a nice crunch, red bean paste, and butter sandwiched between two pieces of dried persimmon — the texture of the chewy dried fig was really good. I'd kept it in the fridge and worried the persimmon would go hard from the chill, but it wasn't hard at all, just soft and chewy. The more you chew, the more a mellow, sweet persimmon flavor comes through, with a completely different depth from sugar sweetness.

Strawberry persimmon sando

Strawberry cream with dried strawberry and pistachio inside the persimmon sando. The bright, tangy flavor surprisingly worked really well with the persimmon.

Matcha pistachio persimmon sando

Matcha cream with dried strawberry and pistachio — similar in some ways to the strawberry one but with matcha flavor coming through, so it's less sweet than the other sandos. I think older folks would like this one too.

Black sesame walnut persimmon sando

The black sesame walnut sando has black sesame cream, red bean paste, and walnuts inside, so you get nutty flavor plus sweetness plus walnut crunch plus persimmon chewiness all at once — my mouth was basically a nutty-flavor party.

The best way to eat a persimmon sando

Tareudang's dried persimmon sando tastes better once the chill has worn off a little rather than eating it ice-cold — when the persimmon gets soft again, it tastes even sweeter. It also pairs well with americano, sikhye (sweet rice drink), or sujeonggwa (cinnamon persimmon punch).

Tareudang packs everything cleanly, tastes great, and looks pretty too. With Chuseok coming up, try getting the bojagi-wrapped Tareudang dried persimmon sando as a gift. Recommended by Jjuninmam 🧡