Sweet Eats:: Little Danish pick-me-ups in Shibuya

Tokyo is a city filled with quick sweet pick-me-ups... there seems to be something to entice you on every corner. This is something Nicky & I were more than grateful for after we had been gazing at Zakka, admiring baking paraphenalia & rifling through rolls of fabric for hours in Shibuya. You just have to have something sweet. Don't you?

One of my favourite places in Shibuya is Cafe Danmark. It is a cool & quite island in the sea of pichinko (sp?) halls, flashing lights, love hotels and what seems to be millions of people... and it has a bathroom! Another plus is the amount of pastries, they have... This seems to be the home of Danish pastries in Tokyo. There is also a touch of the "east meets west". Nicky ordered what she thought was a jam doughnut, a deep fried number coated in sugar. But she was surprised to discover inside was red bean paste, not strawberry jam. Still yummy apparently!


I think I know why the Japanese are much more svelte than your average Aussie. Most food servings seem to be a third of the size! It is nice to have something petite and elegant... I got these two cute mini rectangular pastries. Baked cream cheese is not big in Australia so it was a yummy surprise to find that what I thought was custard was actually a lemony cream cheese filling. As you can see I only remember to take a photo once I had started eating!

One thing that still bamboozles me a bit is the way the Japanese sort their waste. Because they live on a relatively small island waste isn't dumped in a hole somewhere, it is burnt. So when you put your rubbish in the bin it must be separated into combustible and plastics. I used to stand at the bins picking through the contents of my tray trying to get it just right... But after a while I just fell into doing this at the table. Much more efficient! T