So yesterday I finished a long day at work, went to another work related event and finally showed up late to my Japanese class.
After I had a MAD craving for mochi (what I believe to be a Japanese sweet thing though I haven't looked in to it). I usually get this sort of thing in China town (where one would go for most any thing south-east Asian/ Oriental in Birmingham) I went there knowing the supermarket i usually go to would be closed but with a hopefully sweet tooth that I might still find some thing to settle my craving.
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| The selection I bought |
I ended up going in to the prettiest little shop. I don't know if I simply hadn't noticed it before or if it had popped up since the last time id been in china town. but i had to go in. it was a lovely little patisserie and bakery with all those fine sort of sweets you see in the cake shops depicted in anime and the J Drama of 絶対 彼氏(Absolute boyfriend). the cakes where so lovely i had to share them.
This is the mango moose. The first one I tasted (as it had started to fall apart on the journey home). It is a quite dense and sweet thing and you can really taste the mango. I had nothing to drink with it but think an unsweetened warm drink like Green tea would compliment its sweet flavour.
Next was this very tasty little treat.A Green tea cake with red bean and cream layers, making a fair pallet of textures. This was much less sweet then the mango moose and was just perfect with my sweet coffee this morning. Oh and it was surprisingly filling. I only had half I've been sharing them with my mom and letting my little sister have a taste but i still felt full after (could this be one of those green tea effects i wonder?)
This is the last sweet I have yet to taste it and i cannot remember the label at the shop. I assume it is a green tea moose however i think there was a nut or two in there so perhaps pistachio.
More photos
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| Details if you want to try the shop |
