Since the first cake was judged excellent, I changed my plan and got cake again at Schloss Bäckerei at Isetan. I say "cake", but this was a cream puff with the top made up like a mont-blanc (they even warned me when I was buying it that it was a cream puff, not a normal mont-blanc, which I had not noticed but was okay with, due to the limited selection of cake; it is, I'm assuming, actually a bakery anyway).
For running, I tried my South Minami neighborhood running course for the first time, which I'm listed under Aoyama in my map (wish I knew why all the pictures I uploaded to the original Aoyama map are now gone). and found various problems (e.g., not crossing at a cross-walk for a two-lane road, which was true a few places) and later noticed that I left out a little park, so the maps has gotten more convoluted. It was a little under 10 km at a little under 9 km/h.
The cream puff was not even a authentic chou pastry, but the Japanese soft version, and yet, it was actually good. I've complained before about mixing custard and whipped cream, but if you add chestnut paste, which goes with whipped cream, it balances out. The soft shell holding it together was tasteless, but then it is not intended to have a taste and I'm not above enjoying Japanese-style "shuukuriimu". Since the second cake was at least good, I'll have one more on Monday and hold off on cake Tuesday.
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