Deli Manjoo - Diamond Bar

Love the large sweet potato taiyaki. The taiyaki is more mochi texture which makes it my fav. Sweet potato filling has been sweeter than before.. wish it’s less sweet

My experience here was amazing! I am probably biased because sweet potatoes are my favorite thing in the world and they have a sweet potato taiyaki. The service was really good though, and the selection is unique! Order: Sweet potato taiyaki: this flavor was so amazing honestly. I love sweet potatoes so my favorite I have had by far Blueberry cream: this flavor was super yum as well. It tasted like a blueberry pancake! Custard: Classic, can't go wrong with this flavor. It was pretty yummy.

This is a small shop inside the food court of Super H Mart. Got a bag of six small treats (you can mix any flavors of the Lucky Fish mini taiyaki and the corn manjoo) for $5 flat. Favorites were the cream cheese taiyaki and the coffee manjoo. The taiyaki batter is made from tapioca flour so it has a nice chewy texture think mochi waffle. The manjoo batter is made from corn but has a soft texture, like sponge cake. The coffee flavor is really nice in the manjoo. The taro was decent but I'd rather try a new flavor next time. I didn't care for the peanut butter flavor taiyaki the peanut paste filling inside was dried up. I'll be back again to try different flavors!

Honestly, this is what sets this H-Mart location aside from all the other ones that I have gone to. The inclusion of a taiyaki and other custard filled pastries is what is so hard to find, unless you go to a Korean dessert place, Somi Somi, or out to Little Tokyo or something. Glad that I have the option of getting this here and that it's affordable, though prices have definitely gone up since the first time that I have been here (many, many years ago). There's lots of options here. There's the large fresh taiyaki with your choice of filling and then there are the smaller pastries with different fillings, like the smaller taiyaki, corn, and walnut. Some filling that I have seen before are the standard custard and others such as red bean, chocolate, cream cheese, peanut butter, etc. I believe the walnut ones have real walnut bits inside them as well. I love the chewy mochi texture inside the taiyaki and I also enjoy the soft pound cake fluffiness of the corn (manjooya). They have drinks here too, but I have never tried. The smaller pastries are individually wrapped, so you can get them in a baggie or in a gift box. My only issue here is that for some of the smaller pastries, I've had really variable quality with them. Sometimes super delicious, other times mega spongy and unpleasant to eat (maybe microwaving these would be better). You can never go wrong with their fresh big taiyaki though!

Deli Manjoo sells taiyaki. This place calls them lucky fish. They're in a food court located inside H-Mart Market in Diamond Hills Plaza Shopping Center. I ordered a set of 6 taiyakis with custard feeling which were served immediately. I also ordered a chocolate taiyaki. For the chocolate taiyaki, they gave me a pager that will beep when ready. I waited at least 10 minutes for the chocolate taiyaki. The custard filling was pretty good. The texture of the small taiyaki was soft and chewy. The chocolate filling wasn't that sweet, almost like rich dark chocolate. The chocolate was piping hot with the pastry having flaky and chewy texture. I enjoyed the custard taiyaki a bit more than the chocolate taiyaki. Will be back to try more of their taiyaki.