Les Cacaos: Cuba

Went back to Les Cacaos for a second cake, but on the way I stopped by Lily Cakes to verify their location (which I had conflicting information on) and that they were worth visiting, which they seem to be, though I didn't quite get the route right, so I need to make an earlier left turn or end up needing to plow through the crowd around Shinagawa Station (versus taking the tunnel north of the station to cross the tracks).

The cake that I chose this time was Cuba, which is a chocolate (what else) mousse dome flavored with orange. The orange is more subtle than I expected, or at least less acidic, which is probably good thing, and the chocolate had an usual usual but somehow nostalgic  flavor. I have to wonder whether it tastes like American chocolate, even though USA ('Hersey process') chocolate is famous for tasting like crap. It had a sort of syrup-like taste, though I was not other conscious that it was overly sweet, so I'm not sure what that means. In any case, it was clearly definitely excellent, and since the taste was unusual and I'd like to have it again, that qualifies it as great. So this place is quite excellent so far, but I'm not sure that they have more than one actual cake left for me to try (a tart, actually), their other similar items that I can recall being a cream puff (which I consider no more cake than ice cream in a cone is cake) and a verrine, which I've disparaged in the past but am willing to give a new look.