Hey Everyone!
I finally did it
and thankfully without having to queue for an hour. Today my friends and I went
to Tsujiri, the new all matcha Japanese café that opened up in The Discovery
District. Let me just say this visit has seriously been a long time coming. Ever
since one of my friends mentioned this place to me back in March I’ve been
seeing bazillions of pictures posted on Instagram (@naheedzzz, if you’re not
following already -_-), and have been experiencing major FOMO. But yeah, I finally
got some now so everything good in the hood.
This brand is spread all throughout
Japan and has been open since 1860. Isn’t that crazy?! Just take in the fact that
they’ve been open for one and a half centuries! The location I went to, which is
the only one in Toronto, was a small little place which harboured a few
two-person seating arrangements and one cute little seiza-style seating in the
back of the restaurant. For those of you who don’t know, “seiza”-style seating
is basically the tradition Japanese way of sitting on the floor.
I got the Matcha Chiffon Cake Parfait with Matcha Ice Cream on top. For your ice cream, you get a selection of
matcha, matcha and vanilla twist, chocolate, or plain vanilla. The actual
parfait had a matcha chiffon cake, layers of ice cream and frosted flakes with
red bean, which I omitted and overall I really liked the parfait. After just
having a bite of ice cream I could tell the matcha they used was really high
grade. Good matcha always tastes pretty sweet, which is a result of the
complexity of the amino acids in the powder they used. The bright green colour
was lovely to look at and the chiffon cake nor the ice cream in the parfait had
that fake bitter overwhelming grass flavor. If you love matcha this is a must
try dessert.
The company even has a philosophy they’ve
been keeping up with for more than 155 years:
TSUJIRI's philosophy of offering the best quality green tea remains
the same by painstakingly selecting the best green tea leaves from the renowned
harvest of Uji in Kyoto, using the traditional grinding method to bring out the
best aroma and flavour.
Lets just say they basically had me at “155
years”, like seriously one and half centuries… still can’t get over that. So yeah based on the treat I tried today, if you
asked me I would definitely recommend you to try Tsujiri… just don’t expect me
to pronounce it for you.
Happy Hump Day,
Naheeda
Fun Fact- Matcha is the only form of
tea where the entire leaf is consumed.
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