Kneighbor, 3504 W 8th St A&B, Los Angeles (Koreatown), CA 90005
Part Wappen House, part snack shop (Korean version of 7-Eleven), and part K beauty shop, Kneighbor brings the latest Korean trends to Ktown. It’s clearly aimed at the younger crowd.
Wappen refers to things you can customize with patches. In Korea, these shops are known as Wappen Houses. Kneighbor lets you customize tote bags and keychains with iron on patches (letters, food, dogs, cats). It’s affordable too. My nephew would love it, I’m sure.
Moving on to snacks, they have snacks from Korea, France, Thailand, Japan, etc. Snacks include chips, ramen, cookies, cakes, jellies, ice cream, etc. You can also buy beverage pouches and combine them for a custom drink. If you buy the ramen, you can make it at the ramen station. There is a microwave too. They have some add-ins for ramen too. There’s a drink menu and a hot snack menu (pizza, rollers).
The viral ice cream selection was impressive, with mini fruit ice creams, steak-shaped ice cream, hamburger-shaped ice cream, fries-shaped ice cream, etc. The cold case had onigiri, cheesy pizza, tteok bokki, and other foods that you can heat and eat there. They have Dubai chewy cookies too.
They had face masks, makeup, skin care, blind boxes, keychains, stickers, etc.
There are tables and chairs for dining, crafting, or just hanging out.
My picks:
Tofu snack
Yogurt jellies
Kneighbor is in Oxford Plaza which has parking.
5 out of 5 stars
By Lolia S.
