mon chou chou & beauty hotpot

Tokyo train station has this big Daimaru shopping mall that has a food floor fuuuuuuuullllllll of gorgeous cakes. we went once earlier this year on our wedding anniversary, but we were heading to a sushi restaurant, and didnt want to buy any cakes cos they will all melt by the time we finish our usually long sushi dinner.

last month on tv, there were many tv programs featuring cakes at this Daimaru outlet which was reopened recently, and is so so chic. of course every girl will drool at those pretty looking full of fluffy cream cakes...

we have been busy the last few weekends and i have been wanting to have a piece of roll cake from mon chou chou, a new roll cake shop from that food floor.

i used to detest the cream in roll cakes and any dessert. my good friend qiuxiang sitting next to me would always reach for all that cream and say i leave the best part wasted.

recently, i dont know why, but i am loving the cream in cakes!

either, the cream here is very skillfully made and also made with really delicious fresh milk cream, which makes it sooooooooooo light and fluffy, or its just me and my usual weird food liking swings.

Jun brought a little surprise home after work last night!

pink angel, filled with nice fluffilicous white cream, and strawberry mouse, with strawberry bits in there. the wings are made with white chocolote.

rena, filled with dancing lite coffee cream, chocolate truffles (yes! melt in your mouth real chocolate truffles), a slice of banana, and topped with white cream and nuts.

i was blown over by this.

i was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo satisfied that when we passed by the cake shop in Takashimaya today, i said i didnt need any. =)

Breakfast this morning

croque madame

we havent had croque madame for a long time, ham and cheese open sandwhich topped with a bulls eye egg.

Dinner was....................

bijin nabe (beauty hotpot) with added collagen

We bought this from the supermart, and just added whatever ingredients we like in there.

The soup was chicken based. Added white cabbage, pork slices, leek slices, lots of shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, maitake mushrooms, some fish cakes, and tofu.

gonna have nice skin tommorrow! =)

J says he just needed beer to go with hot pot.

gosh, the way he drank made it sound sooooooooooooooo good!

i couldnt stomach any beer cos i usually gulp lots of soup when i have hotpot.

i think i will grab a can of alcocohol free beer the next time we have pork steak for dinner.