Tuesday, I went over to redo verifying the Maruyamachou--Shinsenchou loop, not because it was the highest on the list, but just because I had it and then had to change it, so I wanted to clean that up. Then I can get back to Roppongi and the different Azabu neighborhoods. I biked out to Shibuya Hikarie and parked and then walked and then ran the loop, which is only 1.33 km, but with biking and then doing a basic indoor work out at home, it was enough for one day. At Hikarie, just to sample everything (though there were places along the way that I could have stopped), I got a Chocolate Sand' Bitter sandwich cookie from La Maison Shirokane Bis, which links to Bon Bonheur (which I thought was associated with a different brand) and the home page is part of a French restaurant La Coupe D'Or. Anyway, it's not a fresh thing, it's gift sweets, but what the heck. Because it's not fresh, the cookie is made with vegetable oil, not butter, which I can understand. It ends up being a pretty hard cookie, but since the filling is really thick, that's useful under biting pressure. Actually, it was excellent, consider the price, so I can recommend them for gift sweets. I ate it at the west JR exit, where it was pouring rain. It settled down by the time I finished eating and had made use of indoor routes to cross to the full west side of the connected system of stations and buildings for Shibuya Station.
Wednesday I did the same loop, only the reverse direction. First, I got cake from La Vie un Rêve, which is at Isetan with a lot of cakes that tempted me. I went with Chocolat Spécialité, which won an award in 2010. It is chocolate and orange. Unfortunately, the test just reminded me of bar chocolate with orange, which I wouldn't have thought was a problem, but apparently did, because it was not a flavor that I appreciated. Maybe I don't like chocolate and regular orange (versus blood oranges). Or maybe I impression from looking at the online cakes was correct: too fruity for my tastes. I'll call the cake good, as it was, really, just not what I want from cake, and consider them a fine shop for now but probably never get back there.
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Tuesday, I went over to redo verifying the Maruyamachou--Shinsenchou loop, not because it was the highest on the list, but just because I had it and then had to change it, so I wanted to clean that up. Then I can get back to Roppongi and the different Azabu neighborhoods. I biked out to Shibuya Hikarie and parked and then walked and then ran the loop, which is only 1.33 km, but with biking and then doing a basic indoor work out at home, it was enough for one day. At Hikarie, just to sample everything (though there were places along the way that I could have stopped), I got a Chocolate Sand' Bitter sandwich cookie from La Maison Shirokane Bis, which links to Bon Bonheur (which I thought was associated with a different brand) and the home page is part of a French restaurant La Coupe D'Or. Anyway, it's not a fresh thing, it's gift sweets, but what the heck. Because it's not fresh, the cookie is made with vegetable oil, not butter, which I can understand. It ends up being a pretty hard cookie, but since the filling is really thick, that's useful under biting pressure. Actually, it was excellent, consider the price, so I can recommend them for gift sweets. I ate it at the west JR exit, where it was pouring rain. It settled down by the time I finished eating and had made use of indoor routes to cross to the full west side of the connected system of stations and buildings for Shibuya Station.
