Well, I guess they can’t all be winners. To be fair, that’s probably more my fault than it is Kantaro’s. When he went to Kajitsuen Libre on the show, he ordered the peach parfait. Alas, that’s a seasonal item that isn’t available at the moment.
Chestnut desserts don’t really get the respect they deserve back home. They basically don’t exist unless you really seek them out (and even then they’re difficult to find), and I don’t understand why. They’re quite tasty.
Add this to the always-growing list of line-based discoveries. The line-up at Yanagiya Taiyaki is pretty intense, even by Tokyo’s line-loving standards.
If you haven’t seen Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman on Netflix, you need to rectify that immediately. It’s basically a sitcom crossed with a food/travel show, all filtered through a lens of grade-A Japanese weirdness. It’s delightful.
This isn’t going to be the longest post ever, but there are a couple of facts that I need to point out.
The coconut pudding pancakes (or kanom krok) I just had are odd — tasty, but odd.
Mango sticky rice is a classic Thai dessert, and it’s very, very easy to see why.
When I had the chendol from Penang Road Famous Chendol, the vendor across from it was closed because of Chinese New Year (Thanks, Chinese New Year, for making sure basically everything was closed during the bulk of my trip to Penang. Thanks. I was hoping that most of the places I wanted to try would be closed. You know, just to spice things up).
Ice chendol isn’t the most photogenic dessert ever, but man, it’s so good.
After eating a tasty plate of noodles at Koon Kee Wan Tan Mee, I couldn’t help but notice the vendor selling tasty looking peanut pancakes in front of the restaurant.
I like peanuts. I like pancakes. Trying this out was a no-brainer.