Mother’s Day

Interviewer: Do you have any special drinks for Valentine’s Day in 2023?  Chef Mike: We have Valentine’s cake already set that goes well with hot chocolate.  We make our own chocolate milk chocolate recipe. We don’t use any mixes, so we heat up the cream and milk with whole chocolate. And it has a really…

Interviewer: Please let us know your Hot Sando menu and its varieties. How is the menu item that was added last month going? Chef Mike: So we just started the Hot Sando menu. Everything kind of varies off the same base with the toast. We butter the bread and toast it with scrambled eggs with…

Interviewer: Do you have any dessert recommendations for this Spring? Chef Mike: We have the Hinamatsuri special, which is going to be on pre-order soon. There’s a rare cheesecake with Sakura jelly for girls’ day. And we are also working on Matcha Gateau Chocolate for St. Patrick’s Day which we’ll have that special probably the week before…

Interviewer: Please let me know more details about Fuji Apple!  Chef Mike: Fuji apple is the four most popular apples in the United States right now. There are Granny Smith, Red Delicious, and Gala in the top three. It’s actually more popular in the U.S. eating Fuji Apple as it is. Not a lot of…

Interviewer: Apple season is coming! Why did you make this drink menu?  Chef Mike: So we started doing these bottled drinks two years ago, trying to think of ways we can optimize the kind of ingredients we had and different things we have at the shop. So we decided to play around with apples in…

Interviewer： What is a Millecrepe?  Chef Mike： Millecrepe is a type of cake that’s made of layers of crepe and cream in the middle. Our Millecrepe has 16 layers in clape. The idea of the “Mille” crepe came from mille-feuille, which is 1000 layers of crape. Interviewer： Do you use matcha for this cake? What…