Sadaharu Aoki, Poire Caramel

This week's Aoki Sadaharu was Poire Caramel. I expected rain in the evening so I planned on exercising inside. I did my push-ups and practices some little used muscle groups, but didn't do as much as I should have. I'm thinking now that I'll do a long run covering the next level 12 loop tomorrow night, depending on the weather. I wasn't planning any cake from tomorrow anyway, so I would get a pastry or bread along the course.

Today's cake was heavy on the pear and light on caramel. I'm not generally very fond of cakes that are fruit dependent, and pear has been a fruit that I haven't wanted in cake, but this was definitely quality pear and this was excellent cake, which does not surprise me at all. Aoki Sadaharu continues to it's dominance as the number three shop, but I'm not going to rearrange my lists for now, since one less than excellent cake from them and one great cake from Bien-être (if I could get a new cake from them) would probably reverse things reverse things.

Paris S'éveille: Poire Caramel

Did my long weekday run, maybe the longest I've done between two full work days (assuming I make it to work tomorrow). It was about 22 km round trip to Jiyugaoka, a fast 11 km/h out and a deliberately slow 9 km/h back with a Poire Caramel (ポワール　キャラメル; 600 yen), which is my 17th kind of fresh cake from Paris S'éveille. It's a fruit dome and the fruit has much of its texture, so it is not just gel, but the caramel was too subtle for me (in Bavarian cream, though maybe other places; I carefully read the description, but time and running wipes it away), so it was just like eating fruit, good fruit, but still just fruit, and running for fruit doesn't much interest me. Still, I consider this a superb shop and I want more from there eventually.