Have Chopsticks, Will Eat Christmas Cake
French styled bakeries abound in Japan almost to the level of fast food restaurants in the USA. At my local train station, there is a French styled bakery on either side of the train tracks to capture customers coming and going in either direction. You can find almost anything baked into bread: hot dogs, curry, mashed potatoes, spaghetti, apples and other fruits, squash, you name it. Only the imagination limits what you will find baked into different breads. And while the Japanese make extremely beautifully shaped breads, cakes, pastries and other assorted items, the nicest aspect of Japanese baking is that it is less sweet than in the USA, and that is a good thing. One can eat a big piece of cake here and not feel like you are going to throw up from the sugar overload. This brings me to my point. The annual office Christmas cake.
Today we enjoyed our annual office Christmas cake. The Japanese love to have a cake for special occasions, like Christmas. A cake here easily costs double of one in the USA. The cakes here are much smaller, so folks get a much smaller piece of cake than in the USA. For example, a 6”-8” cake can easily start at $12-$15 dollars. Add fruit, fancy filling or fancy designs, and I have seen them in the stores for $30 or more for a 6” cake, especially if it comes from a popular bakery. Our cake today was a white cake with a light cream cheese mouse filling. The white frosting with rosettes and fancy swirls was topped with some fresh blueberries and a few strawberry slices. It was almost too beautiful to eat. The taste was light and good. Had it been an American cake, I would have felt ill after eating that much sugar.
When my piece of cake came around I politely thanked my server, picked up my chopsticks, and dug in. Yes, you can eat cake with chopsticks. I haven’t seen anything here yet that can’t be devoured with chopsticks. It seems most people carry a few pairs of chopsticks in their desk drawer, so one is never without a means by which to eat. Have chopsticks, will eat.
Today we enjoyed our annual office Christmas cake. The Japanese love to have a cake for special occasions, like Christmas. A cake here easily costs double of one in the USA. The cakes here are much smaller, so folks get a much smaller piece of cake than in the USA. For example, a 6”-8” cake can easily start at $12-$15 dollars. Add fruit, fancy filling or fancy designs, and I have seen them in the stores for $30 or more for a 6” cake, especially if it comes from a popular bakery. Our cake today was a white cake with a light cream cheese mouse filling. The white frosting with rosettes and fancy swirls was topped with some fresh blueberries and a few strawberry slices. It was almost too beautiful to eat. The taste was light and good. Had it been an American cake, I would have felt ill after eating that much sugar.
When my piece of cake came around I politely thanked my server, picked up my chopsticks, and dug in. Yes, you can eat cake with chopsticks. I haven’t seen anything here yet that can’t be devoured with chopsticks. It seems most people carry a few pairs of chopsticks in their desk drawer, so one is never without a means by which to eat. Have chopsticks, will eat.
posted by Terry & Mio @ 4:29 PM
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