# Housewarming gift bakery run near Jongno 3-ga: garlic and squid ink - By Bina (https://superchart.com/en/@seoul-cafe-interval/) - Written Sep 8, 2026 - Local places › Cafés › Jongno, Seoul - Sponsored: This visit was sponsored by the business. - English edition: https://superchart.com/en/@seoul-cafe-interval/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/ - Also in: [한국어](https://superchart.com/ko/@seoul-cafe-interval/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/index.md) ## In short Munhwa Bakery is a takeout-only bakery on Donhwamun-ro near Jongno 3-ga Station in Seoul. For a friend's housewarming, moist garlic bread, coffee bread, and squid ink milk bread were picked up and packed into a paper shopping bag, with the garlic bread sliced and boxed for easy eating. Munhwa Bakery turned out to be a place that doesn't chase trends — just solid, unpretentious, genuinely good bread. ## Good to know - **Location**: 65 Donhwamun-ro, 1st floor, Jongno-gu, Seoul (near Jongno 3-ga Station, Line 1) - **Seating**: No seating, takeout only - **Entry**: Only two groups allowed inside at a time due to small store size - **Breads bought**: Moist garlic bread, coffee bread, squid ink milk bread - **Packaging**: Garlic bread sliced and boxed, breads carried in a paper shopping bag - **Visit time**: Around noon on a weekend (maple cream cheese bread was sold out) *as written by the visitor on Sep 8, 2026* Today's Dasong's housewarming!! She moved in ages ago and is only now getting around to it… So for the housewarming snacks, I got bread from Munhwa Bakery, a Jongno 3-ga favorite. Munhwa Bakery is located near Jongno 3-ga Station on Line 1. I used to pass it every day commuting from my parents' place, always curious but never went in until now… ![Exterior of Munhwa Bakery on Donhwamun-ro near Jongno 3-ga](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-01-1y737-900.webp) ![Front of the clean-looking Munhwa Bakery building](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-02-1jh83-900.webp) The store just looks put-together. Feels like it could have a long history, but super clean at the same time. My bread-lover instincts said this is a good spot. Wow, turns out Munhwa Bakery is one of Seoul's top three bakeries. ![Munhwa Bakery entrance with bread visible through the glass window](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-03-1bwjx-900.webp) ## Weekend lunch, and why a line suddenly formed behind me Visited during weekend lunchtime. Nobody was around so I was peering in through the big glass window looking at the bread while waiting for my friend, when suddenly people crowded around me. Passersby stopped, looked at Munhwa Bakery, said the bread here is good, and suddenly a line formed behind me. ![Customers lining up in front of the store](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-04-z3955-m-520.webp) It was like a flash mob straight out of Dream High, and I was momentarily flustered… I immediately pretended I wasn't looking and moved toward the street. Once I stepped away, the people behind went into the store, and more groups arrived, forming a proper waiting line. ![Weekend lunchtime waiting line outside Munhwa Bakery](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-05-4pigc-900.webp) ## Only two groups at a time, takeout only The store itself is small so only two groups can enter at once! There's no seating to eat in, takeout only. The bread is on display, and you just tell the staff at the counter which one you want and they hand over the already-packaged bread right away, so turnover is very fast. ![Interior of Munhwa Bakery with bread displayed](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-06-33bds-900.webp) ![Display shelf and counter with packaged bread](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-07-1de08-900.webp) ## A look at Munhwa Bakery's bread lineup For the size of the shop, Munhwa Bakery has quite a lot of bread types. Not the trendy style loaded with fillings and chocolate, but not totally plain basic bread either? Visually, everything passed. Let's go through them one by one. ![Various types of bread on the display shelf at Munhwa Bakery](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-08-uwv63-1200.webp) ### Garlic bread Seemed like the signature item of this Jongno 3-ga top-three bakery. Looking at reviews, everyone eats the moist garlic bread. Munhwa Bakery's signature garlic bread is packed with garlic cream, moist all through. ![Moist garlic bread packed with garlic cream on display](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-09-tft3s-900.webp) ### Coffee bread Seems like the coffee version of a white roll. As someone who loves white rolls, I can't just walk past bread like this. Castella crumbs all over the outside with cream inside — you know the type right?? And really long shaped. ![Long-shaped coffee bread on display](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-10-1hfy8-900.webp) ### Loaf breads and sweet bean breads Around noon on a weekend, and the maple cream cheese bread was already sold out, spot empty. Being empty made me curious about it for no reason. There's also loaf breads like rice-chestnut bread and rice-cheese bread, plus sweet potato bread, white bean paste bread, walnut bread. All plain-sounding names but strikingly visual breads. Kind of like quiet attention-seekers. ![Empty spot on the shelf where maple cream cheese bread sold out](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-11-19bic-900.webp) ### Onion bagel This is a bread only people who've had it know. I've seen it a lot at big bakeries out in the suburbs or provinces, but didn't expect to find it sold in Seoul too! ![Onion bagel on the display shelf](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-12-ygqzg-900.webp) Black sesame bread, milk cream bread, cheese bread, squid ink milk bread. The names are all so honest. Ugh, how do you resist this look? I can't. ![Black sesame bread, milk cream bread, cheese bread, and squid ink milk bread on display](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-13-1no1z-900.webp) Injeolmi (sweet rice cake) bread, bread with beans, mugwort bread. Solid breads that don't want to give up on anything. ![Injeolmi bread, bean bread, and mugwort bread on display](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-14-lc3nb-900.webp) ## Three breads picked as the housewarming gift Out of all this, what I picked was coffee bread, squid ink milk bread, and ![Chosen coffee bread and squid ink milk bread](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-15-xcfjv-900.webp) moist garlic bread!! Of course the signature one~ You can tell just by looking that it's packed with garlic cream and looks moist. They sliced the garlic bread into easy-to-eat pieces and boxed it for me. Such a nice touch. ![Moist garlic bread sliced and boxed for easy eating](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-16-16mvf-900.webp) Since it's technically a gift, they put it in a paper shopping bag~ ![Bread packed in a paper shopping bag as a gift](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-17-61wk1-900.webp) So excited to get there and eat it. Rushed straight to Dasong's place (okay, technically walked). ![Bread served with fruit at the housewarming table](https://img.superchart.com/images/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread-18-1scw3-900.webp) This was the moment I'd been waiting for. Dasong's mom even prepared fruit and we ate it together. Thank you so much, Dasong's mom is the best! ## Honest review of Munhwa Bakery, a Jongno 3-ga bakery ### Squid ink milk bread The bread is chewy and has sweetened condensed milk cream inside, so it's nicely sweet and delicious. That said, not overly sweet. The cream isn't overloaded, so it hits just right. ### Coffee bread Genuinely tastes exactly like the coffee version of a white roll. The bread is soft yet appropriately chewy. Coffee flavor isn't strong, just subtle. The cream isn't greasy at all, just right. Recommend it if you like coffee and white-roll style bread! ### Moist garlic bread The one I was most excited for since it's the signature. Packed with garlic cream, exactly the sweet-savory garlic bread flavor Koreans love. The garlic flavor isn't overpowering so it's easy to eat casually. The bread itself is also appropriately chewy. ## Final thoughts Rather than being flashy, this is a bakery with solid fundamentals, nothing overdone, not just blindly chasing trends. The bread itself tastes great, and it feels genuinely, unpretentiously delicious! ## Where it is - Munhwa Bakery (문화제빵) - 65 Donhwamun-ro, 1st floor, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea - 서울특별시 종로구 돈화문로 65 1층 - 37.5742708, 126.9908703 - Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/%EB%AC%B8%ED%99%94%EC%A0%9C%EB%B9%B5/@37.5742708,126.9908703,17z --- Superchart · https://superchart.com/en/@seoul-cafe-interval/jongno-bakery-housewarming-gift-garlic-bread/ · https://superchart.com/llms.txt