Green Beans in Writing

I guess part of it is just flying home once a year, but the food scene in Hawaii seems to be changing very rapidly! There is now a new cake shop that opened up at Ward Center in Hawaii which features Japanese style pastries. I don’t normally like cake — but when I do like cake, it tends to be light and fluffy and just a little sweet — which is pretty much how Asian cakes are. I absolutely had to make a visit to this cake shop!

This particular cake featured chestnuts. As a kid, I grew up craving the taste of chestnuts - which was so expensive that it was a treat I probably had only two times in my lifetime. The taste of this chestnut cake was a nice surprise to me in terms of taste. I loved this cake a lot although other people didn’t find it that distinguishable. They also had other unusual treats including a green tea cannoli which I thought was pretty interesting. I also had their yogurt drink which was not really much of a drink at all because it was so thick! But I love their yogurt. It was tart and just a little sweet. Quite expensive though at $4. All in all, it was a nice place to try something new!