Monday to Sunday

Originally opened in 1985 in South Korea, the shaved ice (bingsoo), coffee, and cake cafe Mealtop was one of the earliest businesses at Buena Park’s substantially Korean dining, shopping, and entertainment center The Source, occupying a fairly spacious, clean, and prominent third floor space near K Soul Food and dPot: a light and bright cafe contrasting with the first floor’s darker coffee, tea, and souffle pancake shop Basilur, with a pleasant outdoor seating area immediately next to the mall’s semi-famous outdoor signage. In 2023, Mealtop rebranded to Monday to Sunday – known in Korea as MontoSun – and expanded its menu to include a handful of savory brunch toasts, such as avocado, salmon, ricotta basil, and bacon cheese.

Over multiple years of occasionally stopping into this location, we had only sampled their oversized macaron cookies (~$3-5) and drinks, which were comparatively reasonably priced. While some of their macaron flavors were basic – salted caramel, strawberry, coffee – others were less common, with a rotating selection that included injeolmi, Vietnamese coffee, chocolate brownie, yuzu, blueberry yogurt, cheddar cheese, pineapple cake, and jolly pong. Served individually wrapped in plastic, they originally ranged in price from $2.50 to $3.50 before settling at $4. By contrast with classic macarons, Monday to Sunday’s tended to be thick and overstuffed, with solid flavors and nice presentation that contrasted with over-the-top and cartoon-styled versions sold at the first floor macaron and tanghulu shop Sweet Box.

At some point in 2025, Monday to Sunday got rid of their macarons. And in early 2026, our longstanding curiosity about the bingsoo eventually got the best of us.