ANGHODU is the walnut-cake brand operated by Maytutu Inc., based in Songdo, Incheon. The company runs the flagship store there, supplies the franchise network across Korea, and works with partners abroad.
Hodu-gwaja, the walnut cake, is not new here. It has been sold at Korean motorway rest stops for decades, in one flavor, from a warming cabinet. Our premise was that the product deserved better than that: bake it to order, give people something to choose between, and put it in a shop people want to photograph.
46 locations are listed across Korea, with 43 open and 3 opening soon. They range from Seoul and Incheon down to Jeju, across 15 provinces and metropolitan cities. Formats range from street-front shops to units inside hospitals, universities and apartment complexes; the kitchen is compact enough that a single operator can run a shift.
Outside Korea, the first master franchise was signed in the Philippines, and the first overseas store opened in Ho Chi Minh City in March 2026, with a second since opened. Partner discussions are under way in Japan. Those markets came to us (K-dessert formats travel well), and they are the reason this English site exists.
Dough and fillings are produced at a HACCP-certified plant, frozen, and distributed to stores nationwide at −18°C. Stores bake to order: batter and filling into the mold, about three minutes, onto the counter. Nothing sits in a display case waiting.
That split, factory upstream and three minutes downstream, is what makes the taste repeatable across every location, and it is what makes the model portable to a new market without shipping a bakery with it.
Ang-i, the duck who sits on a walnut cake, is the face of the brand, on packaging, goods, stickers and the shop itself. It is a deliberate piece of the business rather than decoration: the packaging is designed to be photographed, shared and recognized at a glance.
The menu moves with it. Beyond the walnut cakes there are bungeoppang, ice cream, drinks and seasonal items, and a run of signatures built on regional Korean ingredients, which is not something a rest-stop brand had much reason to do.
We work with master franchise and distribution partners who know their own market. What we bring is the product, the production standard, the store format and the brand; what we look for is someone who can operate it locally and is in it for longer than a season.
The brand is operated by a Korean corporation. These are the details a partner or buyer needs to verify who they are contracting with.
- Legal name
- Maytutu Inc.
- Representative
- Hee-Won Wi
- Business registration no.
- 583-86-03414 (Republic of Korea)
- Registered office
- B111, Insta 2, Incheon Startup Park, 204 Convensia-daero (Songdo-dong), Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Republic of Korea
- Contact
- official@anghodu.com · +82 1660-1521
Built to be photographed
The interior is not decoration around the product — it is half of why people come back with someone else. Warm neutrals, one arch, lit shelving for the gift boxes, and the character where you cannot miss it. Formats run from a full café down to a compact kiosk of about six pyeong.
