Japan
Beard Papa’s Fresh and Natural Cream Puffs by Muginoho
Many Japanese products, when translated to English sounds a bit funny. Including this one. I mean, why would you brand your cream puffs as “Beard Papa’s”? Is it that the cream in the puffs looks like an old man’s beard? Yuck! Luckily, if you can ignore the brand, the puffs itself are nice. The cream …
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K. Minamoto Fukuwatashi Cookie
The Japanese are perfectionist. If you think your custard creams are great, then the Japanese can still improve on it. They can make it bigger, with more cream, rounder and most importantly, with zig-zag creases like an origami art. And oh boy, the packaging and presentation is meticulous. With all these improvements, it should be …
YBC Butter Cookies
What is the most common objects that you find in butter biscuit tins? Sewing materials, of course! Which is why at YBC, they put it in paper boxes, not cylindrical metal tins to prevent grandmothers from putting in sewing materials and creating that great disappointment when you’re yearning for butter biscuits. Question is whether you …
Tokyo Milk Cheese Factory – Chocolate and Mascarpone Cookie
We reviewed another cookie from the Tokyo Milk Cheese Factory earlier. The Salt and Camembert flavour. That is a very pleasant surprise. This one is the Chocolate and Mascarpone flavour. Like the previous review, we will cut straight to the point. The surprise is not really there. It’s good. Chocolate is good. Mascarpone is good. …
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Tokyo Milk Cheese Factory – Salt and Camembert Cookie
Let’s cut straight to the point. These are like typical Japanese cookies. Nice, fine and always packed in nice environment-friendly Japanese paper but not-so-environment-friendly individual packs. The cookies are good and crunchy and fine. But the filling in the middle… boy oh boy… The filling in the middle is not just cream. It’s salty Camembert …
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Kobe Fugetsudo Petit Gaufres Vanilla Salees
Gaufres are waffles. One would assume Petit Gaufres are small waffles. Yes, kind of, but not really. These Kobe Fugetsudo Petit Gaufres from Japan are smaller versions of waffles, but they are more like two thin wafer biscuits with some cream in the middle. They are more like artisan custard cream biscuits. To add to …
Yamazaki Vanilla Roll Cake
First of all, you might ask why is the cake half-eaten? Well, it’s not. It’s probably a smaller size but they didn’t have any smaller container. What about the cake? It’s nice. How nice? Kinda. The sponge cake is light and fluffy. You can see there are lot of air holes in it. The cream …
Taniguchi Farm Amazake
Amazake is Japanese fermented rice drink. It’s sweet and mostly low-alcohol or non-alcoholic. I had some amazake a while back. For me, it’s an acquired taste. This one is from Taniguchi Farm. It has bits of fermented rice so you need to shake it well. The taste is rather strong. For me, I’m not really …