Jean-Paul Hévin: Mont-Fuji and Caracas

After running maybe 15 km Friday night, 20 km Saturday morning, and 43 km Sunday, I wasn't planning to run Monday night, but I was feeling pretty good (besides being sleep-deprived from getting up too early Sunday and not making it up yet) and I wanted to get the Longchamp Chocolat from Jean-Paul Hévin to compare it to Mont-Fuji, which I already had waiting at home. However, sold-out again at Isetan, so this time I ran first to Omotesandou Hills. When they were sold-out, I didn't have much hope, but tried Tokyo Midtown, which I at least bothered to ask about how long it would be around (took the guy a long time to find the information), which is through the end of February, reportedly. I decided that for that much effort after that active a weekend I needed more cake, so I got the Caracas, which I've noted as excellent, though not recently, so I thought I'd review it. The Mont-Fuji in question came from the freezer the night before, where I'd kept it for more than a week as a experiment.

The Mont-Fuji was as a remembered it, so this might be viable option to stash cakes with brief line-up times for later. Obviously, it's not going to work with cakes with fresh fruit. The next experiment, besides storing something longer, would be to compare fresh to defrosted. No specific plans to do either. The Caracas was fine, but I think excellent is the right evaluation. I did not run Tuesday and did manage to get more sleep.

Jean-Paul Hévin: Mont-Fuji and Longchamp Chocolat Noir

Today's indulgence was from Jean-Paul Hévin at Iseten. The Mont-Fuji is a basically their Mont-Blanc with pistachios mixed in, in addition to the chestnuts, in the paste on top. Of course, it's still the almond meringue base that sets apart this seasonal series, but I'll take this one as my favorite of the three that I caught so far (missed one of the monthly specials) and call it great from this great shop, for 674 yen.

The other is also considered seasonal, the Longchamp Chocolat Noir. This is bitter chocolate and almond as a coating around chocolate mouse and meringue, apparently. Actually, the center seems like just powered sugar almost, so be careful to share that out with different bites to keep this great cake. Also 674 yen. Sorry, should have rotated the cake 180 degrees.

Tomorrow, it should be medically safe for me to run, except rain is forecast. In the mean time, someone tried to recommend a couple new places to me, so I need to track them down and add them to the map.