Gunsan bakery for chewy rice bread: Hongyun Bakery

Hongyun Bakery (홍윤베이커리) is a local Gunsan bakery known for breads made with Korean rice and Korean agricultural products :) They have apparently kept developing breads using Korean rice! There were breads with a chewy, moist texture that is quite different from ordinary wheat-flour bread, haha.

Above all, it is a bakery run by a master baker, so it feels like a place you can trust! 🏆 I was looking for a delicious bakery while traveling in Gunsan, and this came along at just the right time, so I stopped by. I was so satisfied that I want to recommend it today 🥐🤎

Hongyun Bakery hours and notes

• Weekdays 09:00–22:00
• Saturday 10:00–22:00
• Sunday 10:00–17:00
• Parking: nearby parking lot (I briefly stopped at the roadside)
• Notes: vegan options, gluten-free options, delivery

Bread storage you open with a button

The shop is not huge, but so many kinds of bread were packed neatly onto the displays that it was really fun to browse 🤩 What I liked most was how hygienically the bread was stored ✨

At most bakeries, bread is left out openly on display 🙉 But at Hongyun Bakery, you press a button to take out your bread ✏️ When bread is left exposed, dust or other particles can get on it, after all 😣 I was really impressed that they had put thought into letting customers take bread out this way 👍🏻👍🏻

Just how varied is the bread selection?

And Hongyun Bakery had far more types of bread than I expected 🥺 Every kind of bread I know was there~~ Really!!! There was nothing they did not have??? Just looking at the breads felt pretty rewarding 💞 You lose track of time while browsing, haha.

Can you see how it was hard to fit it all into photos..? Haha. From classic breads to financiers, mammoth bread, pizza bread, red bean bread, cream bread, garlic bread, mocha bread, pollock roe bread, sausage bread, and twisted doughnuts—if I list them all... I get tired 😂😂😂 They have everything, so you just need to choose what suits your taste!

As you look around, you start out saying, “I’ll only buy this,” but then another bread catches your eye 🙀 and you get distracted... totally dazed.. lol. I had such a bad case of indecision. Not bad... actually, it was thrilling...⚡️

I tend to love pollock roe breads and salt bread, so my ultimate favorite is pollock roe salt bread lol. They had a pollock roe baguette, so I grabbed it right away~👻 What is your favorite bread???

The breads were not skimpy, and every one was generously sized! You could really see the care that went into them~ The prices also felt reasonable for the quality 💳

There are cakes and rice roll cakes, too

There were several cakes as well as breads! In particular, a whipped-cream cake piled high with fruit was staring right at me... There is seriously so much fruit lol 🍒🍑🍊🍈🍇🥭 You know how hard it is to find a good classic whipped-cream cake in the neighborhood these days, right?? 🎂🎂

Do not the rice roll cakes look delicious, too? 🙅♂️ It is not ordinary wheat-flour bread 🙅♀️ The more you look around, the more you can feel that they make many kinds of bread using rice, haha.

The title of master baker’s shop, along with the belief in making healthy bread with good ingredients, is really wonderful! 👍🏻🥺💖 As a customer, knowing they use Korean agricultural products makes me want to buy even more 🌱

Rice-flour castella, pure-rice red bean bread, and pollock roe baguette

These are the breads we finally chose! Rice-flour castella + pure-rice red bean bread + pollock roe baguette 🥖 I wanted to try bread made with rice from the beginning 🌾, so as I looked around I naturally chose mostly rice breads, haha.

The rice-flour castella had a lovely fluffy, soft melt-away feel and was cleaner tasting than ordinary castella 🍞 Above all, it did not taste artificial, so it was easy to eat without feeling heavy.

The pure-rice red bean bread was chewy like rice bread should be, and the sweetness of the red bean filling came together so nicely that it felt easy on the stomach! Perfect even on an empty stomach 🥐

The pollock roe baguette was crisp outside and chewy inside! The crunchy exterior and chewy bite inside were so appealing 👻 The savory saltiness of the pollock roe made it a more intense flavor than the mild rice breads... 100 points 💯

After actually trying them, I could tell that the clean flavor and 🫧 chewy texture unique to rice bread suited my taste better than regular bread! If it were near my home, it would definitely become my go-to bakery. Ah~ I want the owner to spoil me with bread~ 🔫

Free keyring with purchases over ₩20,000

There was also a small but cute perk 🧸 With purchases over ₩20,000, they gave out a Bread Barbershop keyring 😀 So cute.. Yay, I have to show Mom~! Lol. There are several other events too, so keep them in mind 🙉

When I travel, I enjoy visiting delicious, well-known local bakeries, so I always do a bread crawl at two or three places, haha 🍞 Hongyun Bakery was known as a local Gunsan favorite, and I was totally satisfied because it had such variety and so many breads made with Korean rice! 💯💯

If you are looking for delicious, healthy bread in Gunsan at prices that do not feel excessive, I can confidently recommend it 🪎 After finishing my first round of bread shopping at Hongyun Bakery, I went straight to Iseongdang for round two!