By Erick Galindo – LATaco.com – Photo: Erick Galindo.
A bell rings when you walk through the doorway into Donas donut shop in Downey and the sounds never stop. (The shop is named after the word for donuts in Spanish.) “What’s a mazapan?” Asks one customer. “How do you say that word?” Another one asks. This goes on seemingly all day. “What’s in the Bidi Bidi Bom Bom donut?”
Questions abound as customers from all different backgrounds come to this little Mexican-American donut shop in Downey to try their bicultural approach to the artisanal donut. Donas became internet famous three weeks ago by a viral Foodbeast video that changed everything.
