TOKYO: Harajuku ( Com Crepes コムクレープ原宿店 , Zaku Zaku ザクザク, Coisof, Eiswalt Gelato )

So I always make a trip to Harajuku regardless how time tight I am when I'm in Japan. It's near Meiji Jingu shrine which is a plus point because I visit the shrine every trip, sometimes maybe twice a trip because it's just so calming ! It gives me such inner peace!

I always eat the same thing when I'm in Harajuku - THE CREPES! and this time I actually tried other desserts there.

I've previously blogged about the famous 3 crepes places here - Harajuku Takeshita Dori ( click) , and Marion crepe & Cafe crepe Harajuku 

I'm gonna introduce a new crepe place to you today!

Please don't ask me which one is better, because crepe is crepe la ok. They all taste good haha.

This is a newly opened crepe called comcrepe. It's making the japanese go crazy because instead of the usual cream and banana or strawberry or ice cream, this is a creme brulee crepe !

The second place I'm gonna introduce is Zaku Zaku. I remember first seeing it 3 years ago and holy cow, the queue was so long, I did not bother.

Zaku Zaku is a store that specialises in unique cream puffs using the freshest ingredients from Hokkaido.

I bought both their soft serve as well as their Croquant Choux. What is croquant choux you may ask? It means crispy cream puff. And FYI, zaku zaku means crunchy. So there you go, crunchy crispy cream puffs :D

1 croquant choux - 280yen
1 soft serve - 450yen

I still recommend Cremia over this soft serve anytime.

FYI, Cremia is my FAVOURITE original flavour ice cream. There was once I saw this influencer type something on instagram that was along the lines of " got my hopes so high but was disappointed " I almost wanted to create a fake account and flame her. LOL. This is how much I LOVE cremia. I would even consider doing something so irrational.

And the third place, which has been making waves on instagram is none other than this super instagrammable ice cream shop Coisof. I actually also call this style of ice cream Turd Looking ice cream.

Very instagrammable :D Didn't taste too bad either (: They serve 3 different flavours - white sesame, black sesame, and mix of white and black sesame. Their sesame ice cream come from specialist purveyors Gomaya Kuki. Interestingly enough, their name combines the japanese words for " love " and " richness" both pronounced Koi. And their drawcard is the " love soft cream", a Kagawa prefecture speciality said to invite love into one's life and decorated with colourful toppings sprinkled on top of the ice cream.

So if you're looking to have some steamy romance hehehehhehe, best make a beeline for this shop :p 

Fourth place to recommend is this new gelato joint which first opened in LA.

How can you ever bear to eat such cute gelato?! And the best part is, unlike some things which are good to look only, this also tastes really good !

1) Comcrepe Harajuku/コムクレープ原宿店

Address: Tokyo-to, Shibuya-ku, Jingumae 1-8-25 One Takeshita Place 1A

東京都 渋谷区 神宮前 1-8-25 One Takeshita Place 1A

Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. (Closed Wednesdays)

2) Zaku Zaku ザクザク

Address: 1-7-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku 

Cute Cube Harajuku 1F

Hours: 10am - 8pm

3) Coisof 

Address: 1-8-24 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku 

hours: 10am - 8pm 

4) Eiswelt Gelato Harajuku ( click for our review! )

Address: 1-8-5 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo

Opening Hours: 10:00-20:00

TEL: 03-6804-3103

Website: http://www.eiswelt-gelato.com/

TOKYO: Kit Kat Chocolatory

Do you remember what was your favourite chocolate brand as a child?

Mine was Merci. I love how smooth their chocolate was and best, they were packaged so nicely!

But they were considerably more expensive than some of the other more budget chocolates I used to have on a more daily basis.

I guess you could say the chocolate I'm MOST familiar with from childhood is KIT KAT !

I remember 2 used to be too much so I used to break it into half and share it with my dad.

It used to previously just come in one flavour and thats milk chocolate......

Paid a visit to the Ginza Kit kat chocolatory which opened just over a year ago operating under the supervision of Yasumasa Takagi, owner chef of Le Patisserie Takagi.

Honestly, I dont know who this guy is and I've never tried his cakes :/ But I'm sure it must be good because....

Mr Takagi has been supervising the development of new flavours of Kit kat from 2003 and various novel and yummy kit kat has been created under his supervision so far.

We didn't buy any of the special flavoured kit kat this time round because I didnt want to be lugging around kit kats for one month while I travel, and all the more I didn't want to be stuffing my face in kit kat and then end up with a sore throat for the trip bleh. 

Decided to have a taste at the cafe on the 2nd level......

Complimentary kitkat of unknown flavour. yummy tho !

Ordered their signature parfait !

And that filled me up for the rest of the late afternoon...

Parfait 1 Vera 0.

KO

Kit-Kat Chocolatory, Ginza Honten
・Address: 1F Oak Ginza building, 3-7-2 Ginza, Chuo, Tokyo
・Business hours: 10:00-20:00 (no regular holiday)

TOKYO: Harajuku Takeshita Dori Crepes 竹下通り

One of my favourite go to place in Tokyo is Meiji Jing-gu. Somehow I dont know why but Japanese Shrines always give me a sense of peace. I think I feel the happiest and at ease whenever I step into the shrine. 

Usually there's quite a bit of walking to do when youre visiting a shrine like Meiji Jinggu because there's just so many different gates and gardens and the main hall is really.. haha quite a distant. I am ALWAYS hungry after a visit to the shrine.

Post shrine, I usually drop by Harajuku. I really like this place because it's perfect to people watch. Harajuku is home to many of Japan's youth sub-cultures and is a magnet for cosplayers and merchants of cool. 

Another reason is because, THEY ARE CREPE SHOPS :D YES DESSERTS!!

There are 4 crepes shop present. 

1. Santa Monica

2. Marion Crepes

3. Cafe crepes Angel hearts

4.Sweet Box

You know, I'm a very very loyal person. Once I like something or somebody or a certain shop, I feel this sense of betrayal over me whenever I do not stick to them.

I remember asking a bunch of Japanese girls during my first trip to Tokyo which crepe is the best, and they unanimously said CAFE CREPES ANGEL HEARTS!

Henceforth, I have been patronising cafe crepes since 2013. I've been told that Cafe crepes angel heart is one of the oldest crepe shop in harajuku!

Cafe crepes serves both savoury and sweet crepes. But I'm a bigger fan of sweet crepes. (: 

Savoury crepes.. should only be eaten at a French creperie. hahaha

 Strawberry cheesecake

 Chocolate banana cream

TADAH. Okay, this was the day I went crazy and ate 2 crepes consecutively. Until I had to photoshop my fat face to make it skinnier wtf.

Now that I'm getting more serious about this blog, I promise I will definitely return to try out the other 3 crepes. Hopefully maybe Nick will be able to help with me a blind test from all 4 crepe places.

Keep your eyes peeled for more updates!

Cafe Crepe Angel Hearts
Address: 1-20-6 Jingu-mae Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Hours: 10:30am-8:00pm
Closed: None

TOKYO: Sadaharu Aoki patisserie

I AM A HUGE FAN OF DESSERTS!
In fact, I would be perfectly fine just eating cakes all day!
And I am the happiest in Japan because all their desserts are so easily accessible, yummy and kawaii desu ne!

I've always only bought aoki's desserts from the basement food level of huge departmental store ( oh god, I remember when I was in Nagoya, I used to buy 2 aoki's cakes every week from Takashimaya, go back to the dorm and have the best supper )  and it has always been my wish to go to one of aoki's cafe and stuff my face.
I purposely made a trip down to Sadaharu Aoki in Tokyo Midtown after having gyukatsu motomura near tokyo station.

Phew! Got there half an hour before the last order ! I was so confused I didn't know what to order, I just wanted a slice of EVERY CAKE!
So I calmed myself down and made my Id and superego reach a compromise.
Okay! Degustation set (1600yen) it shall be.

Look at how pretty my cakes are !!!!

Definitely recommend all dessert lovers to give sadaharu a try ! You really don't have to go into their boutique, just getting the individual cakes from big department malls is good enough.

Tokyo Midtown
B1F
11am-9pm last order 8.15pm

TOKYO: Desserts ( Shidedo parlour @ ginza & Marion crepe & Cafe Crepe Harajuku)

It's not a secret that I love desserts bit Apologies if you were expecting a long list of recommendations, Nick isn't much of a sweet tooth so we didn't really get to try much  ):

Tokyo is known for having amazing desserts, even random shops along the street or at the basement of shopping centres taste wonderful. Okay, actually those shops aren't random, some of them are really famous eg, Pierre herme, but you get my drift. 

I really wanted to try hidemi sugino, he is touted as one of best pasty chefs in Tokyo. I've heard that the patisserie makes beautiful pastries and they're particularly known for their mousse cakes. Such a shame I didn't get to teh this. Ahhh, probably next trip this year ): 

Shishedo parlour at Ginza 

Tokyo Ginza Shishedo Building 

4-5F 8-8-3 Ginza

I had their cake(s) of the day set. 

You get to choose one cake from this selection and it comes with tea/coffee.

My strawberry shortcake set. It's so amazing you won't regret it. Very light and fluffy and the cream is out of this world. 

Nick had the baked cheesecake with vanilla ice cream. SO GOOD. I'd recommend his over mine anytime. 

It's not cheap though, I felt myself getting porter with every bite, but for the taste and ambience and service, please make a pauper out of me. 

Harajuku crepes

Well, I've tried 2 crepes shops in harajuku. 

The first being Marion harajuku crepe. This shop was recommended to me 2 years ago by some really nice random japanese high school girls and I remember I loved it. Marion crepe is Japan's longest running crepe shop, starting its life as a food truck in 1976 before settling at its current home.

1-6-15 jingumae shibuya ku 

Take takeshita exit, harajuku station

This year, I begged Nick to follow me to Meiji jingu shrine. I really like places of worship such as japanese shrines and cathedrals. There's some " holy water " there for visitors and devotees to wash their hands and drink. It is said that the water is a detoxifying agent, gives you good health etc. 

After our shrine visit, I decided to go hunt for some crepes! Saw this crepe shop with a long queue. Well, Singaporean mentality, long queue = either inefficient or v delicious. 

Crepes in Japan are just so different from crepes elsewhere, I'm not sure what's the secret behind it. Superior cows making superior milk ???? 

We had their seasonal strawberry matcha cheesecake crepe. 

It was so good after we finished the first one, Nick went " eh go buy another leh " and as I said Nick is never a fan of sweets and he is usually more in control of his appetite as compared to me. So for him to make such a statement... YOUVE GOT TO TRY THIS.  

Marion crepe

Cafe crepe harajuku 

Harajuku station Meiji jingu mae station 

Opening hours mon-sat: 1130am - 1030pm

Sunday: 1130am - 10pm

Crepe prices are ¥400 onwards

Shishedo parlour at Ginza 

Tokyo Ginza Shishedo Building 

4-5F 8-8-3 Ginza