Want to get your hands on a free cheese tart on Saturday? Here's how to nab yourself one:
😎 : Rock up to our new Melbourne Central store between 1-2pm
📷 : Share a post of the launch on social using our Snapchat filter, #HokkaidoMelb or @hokkaidoau on Instagram.
📱 : Show your post to our team at the till to redeem.
😋 : ENJOY!
We've only got a limited quantity to give away (and only between 1-2pm), so get in fast.
Location - Near the station, and next Hungry Jacks.
"…we’ve sourced the finest local ingredients to recreate the Hokkaido cheese flavour perfectly."
Then it's not using real Hokkaido milk or cheese. Such a rort.
Hokkaido Ice Cream is amazing.
Everything in Hokkaido (in fact, most of Japan) is amazing. I had a strawberry Swiss roll from this cake shop in Shibuya, I still have dreams about it
@supasaiyan: I had some Belgian waffles next to Keio entrance at Shinjuku Station… bloody delicious:P
Yup even the finest ingredients in australia cannot replicate the japan taste.
I tried Uncle Tetsu in sydney and was dissapointed. Texture wise it matches but taste wise similar but was watered down and not as strong as the one in Japan.
I will give you guys a try and write a review here… not getting my hopes up though… been dissapointed by that promise of perfect taste replication too many times.
@lplau:
even the finest ingredients in australia cannot replicate the japan taste
- unless its Australian ingredients in Japan ;-)
A few years back ate Genghis Khan at Sapporo brewery. 100 minutes to stuff your face with lamb cooked at your table (¥2500) and beer (¥1000). Not a culinary highlight, but an experience.
When paying, there was a plaque thanking them for popularising Aussie meat. They explained there were sheep in Hokkaido, but not enough for the hundreds of diners per sitting. The lamb was from Australia & NZ.
I felt a little cheated. But the dairy products, people & landscape made up for that😯
Currently sucking on a UHA Hokkaido milk candy 🍬
@supasaiyan:
Yeah I used to treat myself to these Hokkaido cheesecakes after work in Kobe… damn but they were good. Never had anything like it in Australia or other Asian countries.
I read somewhere that it will be customized to local tastes, so defs not authentic.
It's with Australian dairy, not from Hokkaido
I wonder if they can be sued for false advertising. Because saying "Hokkaido Cheese Tart" misleads the purchaser to think they are either from Hokkaido or Made with Hokkaido Cheese.
Instead they should say "Hokkaido Style Cheese Tart" or "Hokkaido Cheese Style Tart"
Yeah well if you go down that path, you're going to have to add "style" to a lot of food names.
French style baguette
Portuguese style tart
Chicken Madras style
Singapore style fried noodles
Bejing style duck
can't make it on Sat for the free tart but I'm keen to pay for one to try out this week.
There's one opening at QV too.
I've been to the one in KL and was pretty let down
Oh man I was addicted to the ones I had in Kyoto, if they're even close to being as good i'll be a repeat customer D:
Snaffle and Petit Merveile are the best
It's past 2pm and I'm still in this looooooong line! It's slow as well. Despite the time, they haven't cut the line off, so hopefully I'm still going to get a free one. Given the size of the product and the wait time, I'm 90% sure this is not going to be worth it. :/
Ah, the things one does for free products!
Edit: Finally close enough in the line to smell it! Smells good! But still too far to actually get one ☹️
Edit: Sorry, wasn't worth the wait. I know it's their first day, but I would be conciliatory about the wait if the staff were working ultra mega fast. It did not seem that way at all.
Lines are very in atm, but then at some point you realize your time is worth more than $4 per hour.
How did you line up for?
About 45 minutes! At about 30 minutes in, I felt so invested in it (sunk cost fallacy?), that I continued my wait to finally get my free (usually $3.90) okay-ish tart.
I know that feel, been here for so long that you can't give up now. My record was 3hrs - and I never made it to the front.
@tanoshiiki: Nails. I got there at 4.45pm, but the line was already about 20ppl long, they opened at 5pm. We had to go to at 8pm to get to a concert. I was about 2 people away from the front!! They took forever, it was quite something. Never again shall I line up for nails, I could do my own within minutes.
Is it actually made using Hokkaido cream cheese or is it made with Australian Cream Cheese? lol.