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Chocolate in Shirokanedai
Today we went to Shirokanedai for the first time, with the intent of checking out some recently opened chocolate shop. Our walk took us to three shops selling sweet stuff.
We don't often spend much on chocolates and such, most of the time going for conbini goods or down-priced stuff at okashi no machi oka, but today we did an exception...
1st stop: Doughnut Plant
Our first stop was Doughnut Plant, a donut shop from New York. They make rather huge donuts (4.7" in diameter), sold ¥280 each, a rather high price when compared to Mister Donut's ¥90-150 (the biggest donuts chain around here). However their donuts were really fresh and tasty, quite worth their price (also considering their size).
2nd stop: Oriol Balaguer
Recently opened shop with a very cool design, this chocolate maker from Spain has won many prizes for his creations. The chocolates are of course delicious, but damn expensive at about ¥1500 for a box of 4. Ouch.
They have some interesting products such as wasabi chocolates and golf ball-shaped ones (at first sight I thought they were real golf balls).
3rd stop: Chocolatier Erica
Our last stop was Erica, a Japanese shop, where we picked up some more chocolates mostly for Christmas gifts, this time reasonably priced.
Posted on December 19, 2004 at 23:59 | Tweet
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Ritsu is crazy about doughnuts ... scratch that .. she is plain crazy ...
she now wants to know exactly where this place is !!!
and what kind of word is 'compated' ??? a mix between compeeted and compared ?? heck, my spelling sucks
Posted by Peter on December 20, 2004 at 07:08
Oops, I fixed the typo. I should have reread myself!
Check the Japan Web site (http://www.doughnutplant.jp/) for the address and a map.
Just finishing some remaining donuts for breakfast now. :)
Posted by Patrick on December 20, 2004 at 08:53