Wako and Clair de Lune

Okay, (Patisserie) Clair de Lune and the patisserie at Wako Annex are now marked on the map as patisseries of interest after recent visits. It also shows (until I update it again, since there is a limit on layers) today's route somewhat (Google is not good about tracking some things and I don't know how to get it to map exactly where I want rather than using best-route find a letting me just tweak a few points, although I got lucky once and it really let me draw the route).

I started with a chocolate tart of Wako Annex, but I was out of the habit and hungry, so I forgot to photograph it; here's a Japanese page with a not very hi-res version. It's called Comme (?) Tarte Chocolat and was 648 yen, which is not cheap, but considering this is Wako, it's not as much as it could be. It was extremely good, maybe great. Certainly one of the better chocolate tarts, possible the best, that I've had. The linked article claims that there are are some nuts mixed in, although the chocolate is smooth. Hard to get back there, but I'll try.

The run was good. My times were 52 minutes going and 48 minutes coming back to 100 yen shop carrying cake. This seems to correspond to 5'20'' per kilometer and 6'12' per kilometer, but I caught Google overdoing and shortening the route, respectively, so the truth is that they were probably closer together, although running with cake with some wind after a long run out certainly was slower coming back (plus, I'm not sure what roads I actually took toward the beginning, but I think that they were at least parallel to what's mapped).

The cake was Chiboust again, for 540 yen, with the traditional (?) apple. Usually, these things are round cakes with a flat base, but this one had a crust that curled up on the two sides (seemingly, this was sliced from a longer cake). This crust is several layers of flaky pastry crust and there are large apple pieces, so it was more apple-pie-like than Chiboust usually is (which is a kind of semi-frozen mousse). It makes me think that this is a more home-made style, but it is really good, I'll say great, so I should get back there, despite the distance route problems and try some of the other things. It's a really small operation, so I probably didn't respect it when I went there before, which is why I didn't write any note on the card. Pretty cramped store right on the street and the kitchen seemed tiny, too.