People can fall out of love, I guess. Even though I continue to be committed to Pokka, some of my other colleagues (hiding identity on request) have decided to call it quits. The love affair with the Japanese culture continues, though. In fact, the feeling is that the indifference to Pokka is a natural progression towards our absortion into the eastern culture. Certain amount of at-home comfort is quite visible as we explore mitsuwa further.
Already, I have walked thru' all the aisles of the grocery area looking for fortune cookies. Within the bakery itself, we have discovered the cream cake, which is very similar to our own cream roll, only a little more sophicticated. It's a diamond shaped crispy shell with just the right amount of cream and berry extract inside. It was love at first sight as well. Then, we also have been exploring the food court on the other side of the mall. The first time, the stalls and food are totally baffling, but then for people like us, they have nicely taken pictures along with ingredients posted at the counter.
Special mention of Re Leaf Matcha Cafe is required. This was considered as one of the alternatives to Pokka. Matcha is Japanese powdered green tea. So this stall has various kinds of innovative drinks based on matcha, and then they also offer regular coffee drinks including latte & cappacino. The person on the counter was very patient with us. Showing off his perfect hair spikes, he explained to us in his deep voice & perfect english what matcha was. In the end, we ordered latte, which was quite expensive for a small glass and no match to Pokka, obviously.
So, the search continues.
2 comments:
matcha pacha what is this chacha..
Hey, you can't mock our language, I mean Japanese language. The other day, we finally tried out Matcha latte - lots of green tea with milk, froth and sugar.
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