Other Tokyo Must Eats!!

The Japanese love all things french, but I find that they excel at taking french pastries to the next level. As such, a notable mention is the Pierre Hermes cafe at Aoyama.

This is one of the Pierre Hermes that has a cafe for a sit down high tea. We actually still waited for 45min as there was only 10 seats.

The famous Ispahan cake - rose macaroon with fresh raspberry and lychee infused mousse 

Sadaharu AOKI is the first Japanese born french pastry chef that has its store in Lafayette in Paris. His french pastries are out of this world. The intricate flavours but with the touch of the refinement of Japanese ingredients. If I had a choice, I would definitely choose this over Pierre Hermes, especially for their cakes. The price is much cheaper too which is a bonus. 

They have a wide cake selection 

Their iced matcha tea is rich in flavours with just a hint of the green tea bitterness. I still reminisce about it today

I tried the bamboo green tea sake cake with a earl grey macaroon 

Both Mr."E" and I hate chestnut. As we all know, mont blanc is all chestnut based. However, this matcha mont blanc is out of this world. The chestnut is fresh, not the typical frosting like sweetness that coats your palette. The bitterness of the matcha heightens the natural sweetness of the chestnut. Just out of this world!!!!!

My obsession with all the cool bottled beverages that can be found in vending machines all over Tokyo. Most of their drinks are quite mild in terms of level of sweetness.

Peach herbal tea

Strawberry milk for breakfast 

White peach and yellow peach green tea 

Since it was winter time, yes the vending machines dispenses hot coco!!!!

 Hot caramel royal milk tea 

Sparkling apple tea soda - Yummy 

More hot caramel latte 

Sparkling fruit juice 

Some of the other cool snacks we tried in Japan

This melon bun was the size of my face!!!

Can't leave Japan without buying Pooh cookies - they are actually quite good! Mr."E" kept stealing them. 

Latte art - the design remained the same even when I drank to the bottom of the cup (double tall cafe - I went to the one in Harajuku)

They have really cool Haagen-Dazs ice cream flavours at covenant stores. This one is the Antoinette cake

Human engineered strawberries the size of my fist (literally)! I would say the emit more fragrance than anything. Is it worth it to buy 6 pieces for $20? Not really, but it was an interesting experience. 

Takano is a store famous for selling super high-end fruits. A honeydew can cost up to $100 each. We couldn't afford it, so we got jelly instead. Quite tasty.