Showing posts with label citrous fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label citrous fruit. Show all posts

Sunday, February 2, 2020

Rue de Passy, Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron

Started my Sunday run by heading down to Rue de Passy in Meguro-ku. They are on my exceptional shop list and were near the bottom, so I had been giving the top of the quite fine group a chance to challenge them but no replacement, so I finally went for the next two cake from them, #8. I ate in, which is usually the most convenient thing to do, but can affect the results. I decided that the Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron was the most promising even before noticing that it was the one recommend by the chef. The chef gave a good recommendation, as this was a great cake. Neither the praliné or the citron was very strong, but all the parts balanced well and I liked how a more buttercream filling rather than custard worked with mille-feuille. Not sure that it was actual butter cream or just there was enough nuts in the praliné to give that effect, but it worked either way. Too great cakes in less than a week: I feeling like I'm doing pretty good.

On the way I kept a sharp eye out for what shops were open, as I found too closures Saturday night and hadn't noticed some others. Lotus is looking different these days, and is hard to spot. I decided that Chavity right before them deserves to be a site on the neighborhood running map, but I'll need a different photo, as I got serious glare on the one I took. I'll also add Candyapple in Daikanyama-chou. Down near the Daikanyama Stn. the entire Tenoha shop block seems to have closed, so I'll probably need to revise that 10.4 km loop, but I'll put it off until its time do that clump.

Sunday, June 16, 2019

Yoku Moku, Citron Pistache & Mont-blanc

No running Saturday, but about fine hours of shopping afterward, which is more than my feet are up for. Before that, I finally over for some cake from Yoku Moku (via the Blue Brink Lounge) on the Minami-Aoyama 3 & 4 loop of the neighborhood running course.

This is a fairly ubiquitous department store gift cookie brand, so cake is pretty much an extra. After a nice lunch, we tried the Citron Pistache and the Mont-blanc. The Citron Pistache is on the soft side, but still definitely good. The mont-blanc was similar to Michilak's, in that it had a chocolate-coated base. The chestnut past was relatively thick for the amount of whipped cream and a little heavy for me, but still definitely good. While I don't need to go back there, the cake was better than it needed to be, so I respect them.