Sadaharu Aoki, Chou Ginza Vanille

Trying to catch up, I'm trying to get two post in before sleep, so let me mention Saturday. Saturday was rain most of the day, so I walked to Ginza Mitsukoshi via Pierre Gagnaire starting around 9 am, looked around at Marunouchi at the usual places (Viron and main shop of Sadaharu Aoki, which hadn't opened for the day yet), and came back. In the evening, I ran my new top sites route on the neighborhood running map, which I had only developed as far as the northeast tip of Sendagaya. Still, that was almost 1.5 hours, so enough with light rain, wearing a mask, and having walked at least the same duration in the morning.

But back to catching up, after scoring three cakes (since I was trying to get specific cakes and don't know when things are going to get shut down again, with Tokyo one case short of the re-evaluation level the next day), my shut-down all cakes on the weekend strategy is continuing. Coming back, I ate one of these after a half lunch, the Chou Ginza Vanille from Sadaharu Aoki, the last of the current special chuu cream selection at their Ginza counter that will continue through August (Tokyo Sta. area shops supporting each other, I suspect, as one shop doesn't usual dominate that counter for that long). This time, I knew what to expect from the Chou Ginza Vanille, so I wasn't disappointed. Not sure that the chou pastry is my favorite type, but it's fine and the filling is good, so this was definitely good.