When I lived in Japan, Japanese-style desserts were so commonplace that I hardly remember ever going out of my way to buy them. Even the neighborhood cafes and convenience stores turn out decent desserts, after all. Mon Chou Chou is a good shop too, but in the end it is just another Japanese dessert place, so I tried the Dojima Roll once when it was all the rage and never went back. But now that I am in Korea there is almost nowhere to get Japanese-style desserts, and I cannot tell you how glad I am that Mon Chou Chou is here.

Some people believe there is such a thing as absolute taste, but eat the same dish two or three times and it is hard to feel the excitement of the first time. Taste is a very relative thing. To really enjoy food, you need to know not only what to eat but how to eat it. That is why doing gourmet properly gets a little complicated.

The display case

A well-made cake is beautiful no matter how many times you see it. Just being able to taste a standard Japanese cake right in the middle of Korea is moving enough.

The cakes

There is quite a variety, plus a few seasonal items. Every one of them looked delicious. I would love to buy some of these besides the roll cake, but somehow the chance never comes up.

Decoration roll

It was a family birthday, so I bought the decoration roll cake, and I think it might actually beat the usual strawberry shortcake. We have strawberry shortcake for every family birthday, which means several times a year, so I am getting a little tired of it.

Monte Carlo and souffle

I was curious how the other items taste besides the roll cake, so I bought a couple of light desserts, and both were top notch. They would make good gifts.

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