Funky Fruit

With the holiday week-end over, I thought I needed an early pick-me-up. So Tuesday afternoon, I headed over to Sheppard and Yonge, which I had previously thought was a wasteland of cars and condos. And although that was mostly true, they have lured in a few restaurants at ground level to give the street some interest.

One of which was the tiny HCafé, an offshoot of Uncle Tetsu. No surprise that they had Japanese cheesecake here, though obviously not made on site. But since their specialty was dessert there was a wide variety of ice cream, several types of madeleine (which I tried a few weeks later), the sticky dough dessert mochi, and Daifuku fruit mochi.

Each mochi came in different sizes, depending on the fruit inside. So $3.55 got you either 4 little blueberry ones, a large strawberry or kiwi, or 2 medium peach. The small blueberries were good, though too small to have any filling. The best was the peach, which lent a wonderful perfume to the bean paste. The strawberry was disappointing, perhaps because they used the bloated but bland sort you find in most grocery stores. The kiwi didn't add much except a lot of juice.