Sneak Peek: Moona Moono – Mpls.St.Paul Magazine [Video]

Yuzu poppy seed donuts and strawberry matcha lattes are brightening up the corner of Hennepin Avenue and 31st Street, where Moona Moono, a new retail shop and café that celebrates all things Asian and Asian American culture, opens this weekend. If there’s an antidote to the perpetual Uptown dead-or-alive discourse, it’s got to be this: An airy, thoughtful space stocked with kawaii-driven home goods and K-beauty treasures, with a little café tucked in the back serving black sesame lattes and snacks. You heard the donut news here first: Moona Moono is collaborating with Anne Rucker of Bogart’s Doughnut Co. on two exclusive flavors for the café (yuzu poppy seed and brown-butter matcha). 

Moona Moono owner Angie Lee, previously a branding and marketing executive, transplanted to Minnesota from New York during the pandemic. At the time, she was working for Samsung and traveling frequently to Asia. She noticed that many of the trends, themes, and …