The best and only musubi I have tried so far

I have never been keen on Musubis because I used to think they taste bland as it is mostly made of rice.

In Hawaii they have spam musubi.

I decided to try this place when I found out they had Pizza flavoured musubi and the soybean chicken meatball soup.
I really wanted to try the pizza musubi because I thought it would be fun having Risotto in musubi form.

After taking the effort walking to Brim, there was no Pizza flavour that day, so I got the Mentaiko musubi, Scallop musubi, XO sauce musubi, Yukuri (akajiso – purple perilla) musubi, wasabi octopus musubi and the soup.

I ate the XO Sauce musubi and the Wasabi musubi last because it had the strongest flavour.
I started on the Yukuri first because it was just plain rice with akajiso herbs.
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Yukuri (akajiso – purple perilla) musubi:
I was surprised the rice was flavoured and there was akajiso pieces evenly distributed within the rice.
This was the first time I could taste the purple perilla because the taste of the rice did not overpower the perilla.

Purple perilla musubi

 

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Mentaiko musubi:
Again it was plain rice with a piece of mentaiko in the middle.
The rice tasted nice with or without the mentaiko, and it was soft and moist.
When I got to the mentaiko, it was hard and dense, but it had a nice salty tone to enhance the rice.

 

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XO Sauce musubi:
The rice was evenly mixed with XO sauce, there were pieces of dried scallops and prawns.
The texture of the rice was also soft and moist.

XO sauce musubi

 

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Wasabi octopus musubi:
This was nice too, but it tasted the same as a giant gunkan/Temaki made with Wasabi and octopus.

Wasabi octopus musubi

 

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Scallop in vinegar musubi:
The label saids "trabeculae" which is an interesting translation, but I think they mean scallop.

 

There was generous pieces of small scallops in it, and the taste was similar to the XO Sauce musubi.

 

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Soybean, chicken meatball Soup:
I loved the soup and could not get enough of it.
On the menu it is called Collagen soup.
Although it claims to have collagen, I did not expect the soup to have collagen in it.
It was did not taste of soymilk even though it contained soymilk.
The taste of the soup was similar to chicken in cream sauce but in liquid form.
There was generous pieces of spinach and chicken meatballs.

 

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Brown sugar warabi:
I really liked this because it is different from mochi, because it is made from starch and less chewy.
However the brown sugar powder was slightly too sweet.

Brown sugar warabi

 

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Restaurant: 華御結 Hana musubi

Saint Honore Cake Shop's Chocolate Lamington

There were two flavours for the Lamingtons at Saint Honore's cake shop: Lemon or Chocolate.

I got the chocolate lamington which costs $4.

The usual Lamingtons are shaped like a cube.

 

However the shape of Saint Honore's one was not a cube, it was a rectangular cuboid, the only advantage your getting is that you are getting more.

The Lamington tasted quite nice, it was moist and soft.
The outside of the lamington was covered in dessicated coconut.
The outermost layers of the sponge was really moist because it was dipped in chocolate sauce to adhere the dessicated coconuts.

Kingdom of German cakes galore

There were two cabinets, one had pre-cut samples which I was puzzled why she did not offer me any to try, after I had bought a piece of cake, she still did not offer me any samples.

In UK, they always offer you samples and let you try things, so I would have thought that as Germany is part of Europe that it would be similar too, and if it was managed by German people, they would probably instruct their staff how to offer people samples.

Anyway, I bought the Spanish Vanilla Slice with Raspberries and Cream first, after I ate that I decided to go back and order another cake, the next cake I chose was the chocolate and cherry cream slice and then she finally offered me a sample of the cakes!!!

Although she said that these cakes were imported from Germany, I was surprised it was not owned by the locals because the service was localised and not European.
If only they had arrived earlier, then it would be interesting to judge their customer service.

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Spanish Vanilla Slice with Raspberries and Cream
I was expecting real raspberries, but it was raspberry puree. When you look at it from the side, they looked like real raspberries, but it was puree in that shape.
The base was cake with chocolate, the chocolate had been cut and mixed in with the cake mixture before baking so when the cake it baked, there are dots of moist chocolate in the cake!

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Chocolate and cherry cream slice
I really loved this one, the cherries were tart and chewy.
The cream was frozen cream, so its texture was slightly dehydrated and firm, but I really liked it because this is the type of cream they have in UK, but you can’t expect the cream to be fresher because it has been frozen and imported.
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Future items to try:

Black Forest with Alcohol

Frankfurt Ring Cake

Chocolate and Cherry Sheet Cake

Plum Cake

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English menu: Yes

Service: They were not iniative at offering samples
Yummy factor: Very
Sweetness levels: Just right
Website: http://www.kingspastryasia.com/

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