Food Trip: cakes, pastries, sweets & delicacies

The pudding that I've always ordered at Shokudou

Sweet tooth? YES!
Although I tend to restrain myself from those stuff(s) (that's what you get for having cases of Diabetes in both side of family). So, having restrictions on  sweet stuff is greatly inevitable -- especially, chocolates.

Sad to say, am now allergic to chocolates (ok that's a lie), well, am not really sure, it's just, there's a time I devou-- err ate only chocolates for 3-consecutive days, and so -- the red rashes appeared in my arms and back. So my mother pointed 'chocolate' as the genin (responsible, cause) for that red rashes, and from now on I was restricted eating chocolates (but having born stubborn, what else can you expect from moi? :P)

So, about sweets and stuff, I'm really quite interested in pastries especially the ones that were made in France. I first tasted Madeleine when a friend of mine (from Kobe U) went to D**** for a 6-days vacation, he gave us box of madeleine(s) as sashiage and other stuff. Oh Dieu, that was delicious! Tres Bien! I guess, that was my first and last, huh? ^_^ I don't know any shop selling madeleines, and if it were to have one, I don't think it's as good as those I've tasted before. The quality is superb.

In terms of cakes, I'd definitely like sort-of ice cream-ish cakes especially -- Red Ribbon, but since it's a commercial cake shop, I think there's still much beyond imaginable tasty cake out there, and the only way to find that out, is if I'd go to France. The world's best pastries and where best patissiere(s) are.

Oh yeah! There is one, the cakes I've tasted in Japan, there's this friend of a friend who invited us to their homes and the wife prepared the cakes (from a certain cake shop w/c I don't know where and what) but that cake was indeed delicious, the cakes are well presented and like french cakes, they're all in even shape, not just the presentation but the taste as well, it has that bittersweet after taste...
 

I love Japan's sweets too, especially, momiji manju (in Hiroshima). Although if you're looking for a well-known japanese sweets, you should visit Kyoto. There was a time that we really made one, and well, for me who rarely holds cooking utensils, I was able to make 'okashi' and well, it tasted good too... not as good as the shop sells but it's somehow edible! :P

I first ate pudding in Japan, and when  it's time for breakfast/lunch/dinner, I'd always make a point that I'd buy one... ^__^ it tasted like leche flan but not actually a leche flan. :P In terms of pancakes, so far, the tastiest pancakes I've ever tasted were at Pancake House :)  So before I reminisce too much on those, that's about it, the sweets I've tasted so far. :P

Oh, in my county, especially the city I live in, there's this special delicacy called Bibingka, and in my hometown, there's a famous shop who tops it all. So among delicacies I've tasted (in my country) that's the most promising one. It may not look tasty to everyone but you can assure that its good  Don't base a food on what it looks like it might look crap to you but once you've tasted it, you'll crave for more. :D