suwanose jimaShortcake (strawberry, cream and sponge cake) is 280 yen, which ranks as the lowest price in Japan.
In Singapore, Chateraise exports shortcakes from Japan by air every day for almost 500 yen (another corporate effort).
Koshigaya in the eastern area of Saitama Prefecture is a precious area where retro coffee shops have survived for decades
I visited retro cafes and old-fashioned house cafes in Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture, all at once. All of them are privately owned. As the owners get older, the risk of closing increases. It is a retro trip not to go there someday, but to go there as soon as you can.
Click here for other Koshigaya retro cafes and old folk house cafes.
Saitama Oobukuro Station Japanese/Western Confectionery Cafe Fugetsu（和洋菓子喫茶風月)和洋菓子喫茶風月)
The building looks like an office building, but the second floor is a coffee shop.
I think it’s rare to see a coffee display, filled with coffee beans, these days. I have not seen this in Singapore yet.
Outside, the replicas are displayed in such a way that they are easy to understand, but just reading the menu list inside the store did not give me an image of the products. This is a coffee shop that needs to be memorized by the brain before entering. Customers are tested on their memory.
It says “Tokoroten (ところてん 570yen, started this year too. I do not like tokoro-ten, so I did not order it.
I ordered the “your choice of cake and tea set (570 yen)”.
The word “Indian” can only be read as “Indiaso.” N,” can be read as ”So. This is not a good idea when drawing this in a cartoon mimetic. If you read carefully, the la in “plus” is no longer the letter la, but has become the letter su and the devil combined. The letters written in correction fluid next to the price of a hot dog were indecipherable.
I chose the Beni Imo Mont Blanc for 280 yen. The reason is that I am a mixed breed with more than 5 generations of family history in Kagoshima and Okinawa. My family is Singaporean and beni-imo is a tropical vegetable.
The lace curtains are showing their age. The way the curtains are tied is unusual.
Two types of lamps from the ceiling.
Kabocha Mont Blanc is priced at 300 yen. A price of just 300 yen for something that takes a lot of time and effort to make.
The omelette with banana, grape, and blueberry sweets is 280 yen, no way. These all have expiration dates of today (except for the purin). This is a display that inspires me to purchase them with the help of many people to keep them alive.
Japanese/Western Confectionery Cafe Fugetsu（和洋菓子喫茶風月)
It was run by people who were supposedly parent and child, but that’s not specific information because it would be a thing if they were not parent and child.
If it was a father and daughter, the daughter was still in her 50s. With the high cost of living, I hope that this retro coffee shop will continue to survive amidst the closing of individual stores around the Oobukuro Station area.
