Mandarin Oriental Gourmet Shop, Mango Short Cake and Tart Lemon

Sunday, I was busy, but I got a chance to do cake for two at Mandarin Oriental Tokyo Gourmet Shop, which was on the list of shops to get third cakes from. Actually, I got two cakes of course. There was not a big selection left at a little bit before 5 pm on a Sunday, so I recommend going earlier (there was also some sort of glass desert and a coffee desert), but we could get the last Mango Short Cake and the Tart Lemon, both at hotel café prices.
We would have rather eaten inside, due to the heat, but having stopped walking and purchased iced tea, it was actually fine at an outside table. Both cakes were good, although difficult to eat (big pieces of mango don't cut easily and the tart was designed for looks), but not any more than that. It's a fine shop, but this will probably be my last visit. Only five shops to visit, and I might get to two over the next week, if plans go as expected.

I didn't actually run on Monday but instead did a fuller upper body workout than I've done for a long time. The next few days will probably also keep me from doing runs on the neighborhood course, but even if I do indoors again on Friday, Saturday evening I should be able to hit the neighborhood loops from last Saturday again. I need considerable running to burn off this weekend (extended to Monday), so maybe I'll fit in some extra running on a smaller or more convenient loop, like around Akasaka Palace to Jinguumae--Kita-Aoyama.

Ginza West (Ginza branch): Mango Short Cake

No running Sunday, although Friday's run had that covered, somewhat. In the afternoon, I went to Ginza West, the main shop in Ginza, which I had been meaning to do after Sweet Sonobe mentioned it (not that I haven't been by at least the Aoyama one many times). It's very old fashioned, including the cake and receipt, which does not explain anything but the final price per person. I think the Mango Short Cake was 800 yen plus. I also got a plate with some sort of unbaked chocolate cake/fondant and ice cream in chocolate sauce with some whipped cream, but I can't recall the name now, other than having the word chocolate in it, and it's not on their online menu (again, old fashioned, and Tabelog doesn't want to transmit information to me). The picture is perhaps more useful. With drinks, they both cake out to 1512 yen each, even though the individual prices were a few hundred yen different.

The mango short cake was definitely good, in that the mango fruit was good and the sponge seemed good quality, though not my thing. I was even less into the chocolate whatever this is. It's vaguely brownie like but completely soft. I'm still called it good, I guess, but I'm less certain.