My Recent Unexplained Donut Obsession.

Imagine this, you are on a public bus and somewhere along the way you fall asleep. You are roused by a sudden hitting of breaks--some idiot trying to cut ahead of your bus which is rolling around at unsafe speeds on top of weighing several thousand pounds--at which time you are confused about your surroundings. What city is this? Have I missed my stop? You look out the window and see a building shaped like two donuts with a tunnel connecting them.

Correct. You vow to return.

That's exactly what I did. I took confused, sleepy notes in my moleskine. I will return to this place for obvious reasons. It has donuts. It is shaped like donuts. It is awesome...

I mentioned it to my mom. Have you heard of this place? She says she thinks she saw Huell Howser do a story on it but can't be sure. She also has a desire to see it herself. After running an early morning errand on Saturday morning, we decide donuts are in order.

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WELCOME TO THE DONUT HOLE.
(15300 E. Amar Road/La Puente, CA 91744)





Located on a main drag of a San Gabriel Valley suburb. I thought of coming here by bus by myself, but you really need to drive through the donuts to get the full effect. The structure itself is the real draw as the donuts were only okay. They do their own version of the Tiger Tail (The Donutman Jim's is still better) and the women operating the shop were really quite nice. The chocolate bar was as good as anyone else's. The butter croissant was really kind of amazing in how much butter they were able to bake it with and the sheer size of the thing. I ate part of that in the car and decided it would make a nice turkey croissanwich at home and I ended up filling it with mesquite turkey and dijon mustard. In the time that it sat in the car, the paper bag it was in became entirely saturated with grease.

Verdict: I would return for my love of roadside attractions and liberal uses of butter.

Know of a donut spot I should visit? Please suggest in the comments area of this post.






Previously on the Empirical: The Donutman/Jim Nakano.
Previously on the Empirical: Donut Attack!