# Seodaemun bakery garlic baguette return: Mandong Jegwa - By Yerim (https://superchart.com/en/@windowseat-espresso/) - Written Sep 11, 2026 - Local places › Cafés › Seodaemun, Seoul - Sponsored: This post was written with support for a store visit. - English edition: https://superchart.com/en/@windowseat-espresso/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/ - Also in: [한국어](https://superchart.com/ko/@windowseat-espresso/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/index.md) ## In short Mandong Jegwa Yeonnam Branch is a bakery in Seodaemun, Seoul. I stopped by just after weekday lunch with no wait, sampled breads for free, and took home kaya coconut, squid-ink onion bagels, and garlic baguettes. Verdict: a generously filled, great-value bakery worth returning to. ## Good to know - **Hours**: Daily 11:00–21:00 - **Parking**: Yeonnam 4 Street Public Parking Lot and Yeonnam 3 Public Parking Lot available nearby - **Paper shopping bag**: ₩100 *as written by the visitor on Sep 11, 2026* ## Visitor information for Mandong Jegwa Yeonnam Branch near Hongik University Station Mandong Jegwa Yeonnam Branch, a bakery stop on a Yeonnam-dong bread crawl, is easy to visit near Exit 3 of Hongik University Station on Subway Line 2, the Gyeongui–Jungang Line, and the Airport Railroad. With Donggyo-dong Samgeori nearby, it is also a nice stop when eating around Donggyo-dong Samgeori. It opens at 11 every morning, making it easy to pick up bread for a late breakfast or lunch brunch, and stays open until 9 PM, so it is also good for an evening visit after work. Parking is available at the nearby Yeonnam 4 Street Public Parking Lot and Yeonnam 3 Public Parking Lot. ## The Yeonnam-dong bakery I kept thinking about and returned to ![Exterior of Mandong Jegwa Yeonnam Branch in Yeonnam-dong](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-01-13exv-1200.webp) Today’s Hongdae bread-crawl stop is Mandong Jegwa near Hongik University Station, a Yeonnam-dong bakery. There are so many great places to eat, including new ones, around Hongik University Station that I do not often revisit places, but I came back to Mandong Jegwa because its crazily addictive flavor had stayed on my mind ever since my last Yeonnam-dong bread crawl. I visited just after weekday lunch, and there was no wait that day. There was no wait when I did an opening run on a weekday last time either, so weekday daytime visits seem comfortably easy. Customers kept coming and going even right after lunch, but no one was lining up. ## Choosing breads with free samples ![Inside Mandong Jegwa Yeonnam Branch bakery](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-02-1g4t1-900.webp) ![Bread display at Mandong Jegwa Yeonnam Branch](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-03-1j2gs-900.webp) Mandong Jegwa is famous not only for delicious bread but also for generous portions and great-value prices. And then there are the free samples they hand out so generously—heaven! The kabocha squash ciabatta I tried as a sample had a lovely combination of hefty, sweet squash and chewy ciabatta. Once you start sampling, the bread is so good that you magically forget your original mission while loading up on the samples. I absolutely have to buy the corn mayo bread, my original target, on my next return. ![Kabocha squash ciabatta and corn mayo bread](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-04-f1wt8-900.webp) ![Sample bread display at Mandong Jegwa](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-05-6gfwc-900.webp) The bacon ciabatta was good too. After sampling the chestnut, red bean, and mugwort bread, I thought its chestnut-red bean-mugwort combination had a very grandma-taste vibe, but it felt like a great dessert bread to give parents as a gift. Of course, I liked it too. ![Bacon ciabatta and chestnut red bean mugwort bread](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-06-193jy-900.webp) ![Dessert bread display at Mandong Jegwa](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-07-16qrc-900.webp) ![Chestnut red bean mugwort dessert bread](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-08-17wcx-900.webp) The fig campagne was also lovely, with pleasantly chewy bits of fig, as were the yakbap bread and chestnut loaf. ![Fig campagne bread](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-09-wctyu-900.webp) ![Yakbap bread and chestnut loaf](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-10-1l4ly-900.webp) ![Meal-bread display at Mandong Jegwa](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-11-1fart-900.webp) The chili sausage bread and tortilla bread looked delicious too, and the bread prices were so low. I was moved. ![Chili sausage bread](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-12-1ppj6-900.webp) ![Tortilla bread at Mandong Jegwa](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-13-zj9gv-900.webp) ![Various breads at Mandong Jegwa](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-14-1bz53-900.webp) ![Bread display at Mandong Jegwa](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-15-152xm-900.webp) The shelves were full of breads for all kinds of tastes: sweet, savory, sweet-and-salty, and nutty. ![Cappuccino bread at Mandong Jegwa](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-16-5lw6f-900.webp) You can put the other breads on a tray and pay for them, but the cappuccino bread and ![Basil tomato cucumber baguette](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-17-1ql2p-900.webp) ![Onion bagel at Mandong Jegwa](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-18-gpxdn-900.webp) ![Garlic baguette at Mandong Jegwa](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-19-xvz6q-900.webp) the basil tomato cucumber baguette, onion bagel, and Mandong Jegwa’s highlight, the garlic baguette, are not items customers place on their own trays. Tell the counter when paying, and the kind staff pack them with you. ## Packed kaya coconut bread, bagels, and garlic baguettes ![Mandong Jegwa bread packed in a paper bag](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-20-s48hr-900.webp) They pack purchases in paper bags; a paper shopping bag costs ₩100. When you walk in, it is a little funny to see people coming out carrying bags labeled “bread,” haha. I did not buy that much bread, but I had lots of other things to carry, so I put everything in a shopping bag while I was at it. ![Packaged breads from Mandong Jegwa](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-21-5siv1-900.webp) This time, my finds were kaya coconut bread, a squid-ink onion bagel, and a garlic baguette. All the packaged breads I got on my last visit were delicious, so the only difference this time was adding the kaya coconut. I got the squid-ink onion bagel and garlic bread again too—because they are ridiculously delicious. The other breads are good too, but I had a lot to carry, so I packed only the ones I had kept thinking about after eating them last time. ![Cross-section of a squid-ink onion bagel](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-22-r73m1-900.webp) The squid-ink bread has soft bread filled with condensed-milk cream—pure bliss. Should I say there is a faint cheese-like flavor in the squid-ink bread? Seriously so delicious. ![Kaya coconut bread](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-23-gu128-900.webp) The kaya coconut bread has a crisp exterior and an insanely nutty coconut-and-almond combination. It is full of rich, toasty kaya jam filling, sweet and nutty and deeply savory all at once; I enjoyed it so much that I finished it in one sitting. ![Onion cream cheese onion bagel](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette-24-pijj0-900.webp) The onion bagel is generously filled with onion cream cheese full of crunchy onion, tucked into a bagel that is crisp outside and chewy inside—obviously, insanely delicious. If you cannot eat it right away, freeze it. Even after freezer storage, the onion bagel’s onion crunch was still there. Mandong Jegwa Yeonnam Branch was a great-value Hongdae bakery where I could sample and pack generously portioned breads made with no skimping on ingredients. I recommend it as a place that will make you want to return. ## Where it is - Mandong Jegwa Yeonnam Branch (만동제과 연남점) - 32 Yeonhui-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea - 서울특별시 서대문구 연희로 32 - 37.561526, 126.9272585 - Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/%EB%A7%8C%EB%8F%99%EC%A0%9C%EA%B3%BC%20%EC%97%B0%EB%82%A8%EC%A0%90/@37.561526,126.9272585,17z --- Superchart · https://superchart.com/en/@windowseat-espresso/yeonnam-mandong-bakery-garlic-baguette/ · https://superchart.com/llms.txt