Cycling to Rue de Passy and Fraoula

I was late, and arrived at Ryoco at 10:45 so there was a huge line. I was reminded of Hidemi Sugino in Kyoubashi (north of Ginza), which is a rightly famous cake shop/cafe that I have not listed as great, partially because of the bother of lining up there and partly because their fruity mousse cakes are not my highest interest (although I'm talking myself in to going there). Anyway, I'll try again when I can go early enough to get cake in under an hour and probably also get at least two pieces for my trouble.

I went west next, as planned, to Rue de Passy and got their new Galaxy for 518 yen. It is a mousse dome. There is a base of milk chocolate ganache, a couple millimeters of chocolate (maybe) cake on next, then a dome of praline mousse with fruit, a covering of chocolate, and a few more pieces of fruit and other bits as you can see. The fruit was apple and pineapple compote, although I'm not sure which was which. Maybe the pineapple was the tiny hardish pieces on the outside and the apple was the fruit inside (it was a fairly small amount). It was a good balance all around, except it was a little too sweet and candy-like for me. Maybe I should have eaten in with tea. Given how bad the mosquitoes were in the park I tried, I wish I had used their cafe. I think I'll go back to considering this shop as very good and not give it further special attention.

I next, by an unintentionally long route, went to Fraoula, where I got the new Fig Tart. This was 518 yen. It is very good. You can see that it is slices of fig on a custard tart, or at least something in that family. Probably a good compliment for the Galaxy, but not really trying to be great. I also got La Boule, which is not cake, so no picture, but is a 4 cm sphere of sweet bread, for 108 yen; it was very nice and I'll continue sampling their their baked goods. 

Was quite tired later and needed a nap. I shouldn't be doing another long run this Wednesday---once a week would be more than enough---although I might try something special, like going out to Bigarreaux, to see what they have that I haven't tried. I'll need to get more done at home before then, though. At least the dishes aren't piling up, the mail is a little better dealt with, and three loads of washing got done. Also, I have ingredients for a big pot of curry and another version of cheesecake tarts.