Kobe Altena
I received from a Japanese guest a gift. That gift was a delicacy in Kobe Japan. It called a Kobe Altena cake. It’s a green tea sponge cake with a layer of chestnuts and chocolate. The package itself was beautiful drawstring wrapped the box and inside another layer of hand packaging. I read somewhere that the Japanese consumer was very picky about packaging that even a letter was even off on its alignment by millimeters the product would not sell. They believe if the packing was bad then the product was bad also.
Well this cake passes all the marks. The cake was delicate nothing overpowering in taste even the chocolate in the bottom part was not sweet rather still has that dark flavor of chocolate yet not enough to offset the hint of green tea flavor and chestnuts.
It was a great gift for me I had to share the cake with my staff not after keep a whole cake for myself heehaw. Hope to get some when I pass by Japan this week
