I adopted Chocolate Gateau on November 25th 2024, but it was until December 5th that I gained the confidence to take a stab at customizing! From that day forward, I started adding custom build a bears to my collection!

Chocolate Gateau is a very formal pitch black dyed axolotl vampire. He appears to be in his late 20s, but is actually 300 years old! Don't worry, he doesn't actually have the ability to turn anyone into a vamp. He frequents Lotlspire Castle often, where he reads in the big library by himself. He occasionally strikes up conversation with Licorice while he's there. He fancied Sugar Plum for a while, but stopped once she happily married to Pecan Pie. While it hurt him, he wanted to respect Sugar Plum by not pursuing a relationship with her any further.

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Chocolate Gateau appreciation : one / two / three / four / five / six / seven / eight / nine

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Ginza Onodera

Afternoon tea.

I would usually associate this with the British tea drinking culture.  With dainty scones, luxurious finger sandwiches and select beverages.  All held in a carefully white tablecloth environment.  Altogether a rather refined affair.

Japanese seemed to be the antithesis of English tea with its emphasis on minimalism and excellent but simple looking food.  The setting prepared me for the same with carefully presented table culinary promising something different.

Kabusencha, tea leaves covered for 10 days to give elegant sweetness.  Starting with the arrival of the tea.  Rather fresh and light, it was a contrast to the sometime heaviness of the English variety of Earl Grey etc.  With a light taste, it was a great preparation for the lighter (as compared to the British version) foods to come.

Although there is no pleasing everyone as my dining companion wasn’t that impressed at first glance.

Spider roll, deep fried crab rolls with spicy sauce.  Interesting departure from the traditional with the brown rice.  Carefully prepared ingredients finely chopped.  However, the brown rice added an unusual touch for me.  Perhaps appealing to the new Western generation but I prepare white rice (of varying grades) in my sushi.  Although it was decent, perhaps it was something more suitable for others.

Wagyu slider and crab croquette, premium Wagyu slider and deep fried crab croquette with home made bechamel sauce.  I enjoyed the depth of flavour of the mini burger.  The buttery crab croquette was generously packed with crab too.  The full taste of both brought some pleasing weightiness to the meal, all served on particularly refined crockery.

Salmon tataki, lightly seared salmon with plum and cucumber dressing.  Quickly seared not to impact on the smooth raw flavour, this was quickly gone, although I did wonder why maguro (tuna) did not make an appearance as for the Japanese, it is the king of fish.

Chicken karaage, lightly battered fillets served with lemon and sun dried chillies.  Excellent.  Avoiding too much oil, crunchy, moist, juicy and satisfying.  Perhaps they could provide some lessons to the fryers around London.  Yet, on second thoughts, if they did that, I would be a larger man.

Beef teriyaki, grilled sirloin beef served with seasonable vegetable.  A small little slice of beef which was pleasant, although overshadowed by the slider.  Instead of a beef explosion, it was something different, so perhaps preferable for others.

Soya bean blanmage with black sugar syrup.  A little finisher, sweet, delightful with body and some berries to add ready to be picked sweetness.

  Chocolate gateau served with berries.  Although I noted that the menu stated that there would be mochi ice cream and matcha sauce, it was absent this time.  Perhaps a wasted opportunity as although the sweet and tart berries provided interesting counterpoint to the chocolate cake, perhaps a more radical change in texture and temperature might have delighted the senses more.

I was a bit surprised that the vast array of pastries, to which the Japanese are renowned for in Asia did not make an appearance.  However, perhaps this is a good thing as this afternoon tea managed to straddle the line between something perhaps unrecognisable to western audiences and something a bit more familiar.  Although, I must thank them though.  As somewhere that is willing to show that there is more to Japanese food than sushi, curries or ramen.  If you can’t make it to Japan, perhaps visiting Ginza Onodera might give you a taste of what you are missing.

  A quieteating 8/10.

We were invited to review.  Estimated costs is GBP29 excluding drinks and service.

  Ginza Onodera

Im hungry again. XD

Anyways i was also going to phone my dad up but my brother said its best to phone him tomorrow as he is at the pub.

So i will phone him tomorrow. :) 

Im going to phone him up for next Saturday (as im going round his house that day) and going to phone him up about.. wait for it.... FOOD!!!