Le Musée de H (Kanazawa) - Best ever Pâtisserie!
Mont Blanc
Le Musee de H
Le Musée de H (Kanazawa)
As per this post’s headline, it’s no clickbait or exaggeration.
It is really the best ever Pâtisserie we ever experienced at that moment of our life (and still is as of April 2020).
Mont Blanc
Le Musee de H
Mont Blanc (¥500)
I will just start off with our favourite of the lot, the Mont Blanc! Furthermore chestnut is in season at that time.
The first impression, it is really nice looking and uniform outer structure of the “Spaghetti” layer.
Next, the chestnut puree is also made very smooth with some sugar powder on the exterior. When you bite in, there’s the cream, chestnut, and biscuit as the base of the Mont Blanc.
I love how the flavour and texture are working in harmony, smooth and natural sweetness of the chestnut puree and cream, and the crunch of the biscuit makes it really balanced. Of course, the usage of good ingredients aka the chestnut is important too.
We have eaten quite a few Mont Blanc from popular stores during our trip, this is no doubt the best one in terms of flavour and look.
Rating: 4/5
Noto Milk Pudding
Le Musee de H
Noto Milk Pudding
Le Musee de H
Noto Milk Pudding
Le Musee de H
Noto Milk Pudding (¥350)
This was a pleasant surprise for me, I never expected it to be so good!
For info, this is my second favourite of the lot.
Texture: Silky smooth and creamy, imagine the smoothness of eating a proper traditional beancurd (imagine Rochor Beancurd in Singapore).
Taste: Milky and robust taste in a good way. For those who want it sweeter, you can mix more of the caramel at the base to your pudding.
Rating: 4/5
While writing for this post, I did more research on this pâtisserie and of course the award-winning pastry chef Hironobu Tsujiguchi. Apparently he is also an equally accomplished chocolatier, will definitely try his chocolate creations next time!
From articles I read, he likes to use seasonal produce and also the best ingredients into his creation. I can feel his love and passion for what he is doing and being very detail oriented. No wonder his creations are so darn awesome.
You can find more insights about him from this interview article, and I quote one of the interesting insights or philosophy of his from the article.
“Nothing really remains after you eat something, so I feel it’s really important to have a story behind each piece where even the salesperson can tell the customer about how it was made, the ingredients that were used and where each of them came from, and how the chef put these ingredients together to make the piece,” he said in an interview. “I feel that it’s very important to have that kind of story because unless you have the story, nothing remains. It’s the way you can create something that lasts and gets passed down, and it’s a very important part of sharing my creations.”
The other 3 cakes
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Lychee Berry Rice-Milk Mousse : Riz Rouge
Le Musee de H
Lychee Berry Rice-Milk Mousse : Riz Rouge
Le Musee de H
Lychee Berry Rice-Milk Mousse : Riz Rouge (¥550)
This is so beautiful like an art piece when we see it in real life, comes with Kanazawa’s iconic gold leaves and puffed rice on the top. But most importantly, how does it taste?
Texture: Thin jelly-like exterior layer, smooth in the inside with a bit of crunch from the biscuit base
Taste: Sweet and sour from the cream, lychee and berry fruits. The combination of the flavours works well here too, nothing overpowering and everything in balance.
For info, this is Poka second favourite of the lot.
Rating: 4/5
Matcha Mousse Sesame & Mango : Wa-cha
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Matcha Mousse Sesame & Mango : Wa-cha
Le Musee de H
Matcha Mousse Sesame & Mango : Wa-cha (¥525)
Texture: I would descript it the same as the above Lychee Berry Rice-Milk Mousse. It is a similar type of mousse and this has red beans and sesame on the top instead of puffed rice and gold leaves.
Taste: We feel that the matcha profile is quite subtle, mango part is leaning towards the sweeter side with very subtle sourness. Overall it has a very balanced flavour, but this is more on a subtle note rather than the usual matcha which has a more robust flavour.
Rating: 4/5
Sheri
Le Musee de H
Sheri
Le Musee de H
Sheri (¥475)
As this doesn’t have an English name and description on the display card, I could only google image translate, and I got Sheri. Didn’t see it on their official website also, so can’t even google translate that.
Anyways, let’s cut straight to the chase.
Texture: Cake itself is smooth and soft, but there’s quite a chunk of fruits and chestnut in the middle, with a chocolate (?) biscuit base.
Taste: I can’t fully remember the exact taste may be due to it’s not so memorable compared to the others + it’s been half of a year since. What we could roughly remember is the mixture of flavours is not that refined/smoothly balanced, thus we find it a bit not on par of the standard of the rest we tried.
Definitely the worst of the lot for this awesome pâtisserie, but I will say in most other places this will be considered good or great, but over here I feel it is just not on par with the rest we have eaten.
Rating: 3.5/5
Fruit Tart
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Chocolate Mousse Raspberry Pistachio
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Cheesecake : Soufflé Fromage
Le Musee de H
Classic Gateau Chocolat
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Some photos of their whole cakes on sale, we wanted to try more but our stomach doesn’t allow us to eat anymore!!
Cake Varia (Pound Cake)
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Yukizuri Confectionery
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Baum Rusk
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Lots of options for takeaway souvenir and gifts.
Part of the seating area
Le Musee de H
Our seats that day was at the left corner of the photo, it is a nice seating location for views and to chill. Bonus point it also has good natural light to take photos of the cakes too!
Preparation
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Overall
As mentioned from the start, the best ever pâtisserie we ever tried in our life till now (April 2020).
Quality is superb, pricing is cheap for its quality, nice relaxing place with a good view too.
I need to reiterate on the great pricing again, just imagine a slice of Lady M’s Matcha Mille Crepe in Singapore which costs around S$11 after tax and GST, and the cakes over here just cost a mere S$4.5-7 thereabouts. I would rate Lady M Matcha Mille Crepe at 2.5/5 only.
I would strongly recommend without a doubt to give this a try if you are in Kanazawa. Speaking about being a work of art, the pâtisserie is also located in a museum building too
The next time I visit Japan, would try to revisit this place again and also try his chocolates at Le Chocolat De H.
Entrance
Le Musee de H
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Address: 石川県 金沢市 出羽町 2-1 石川県立美術館
Opening Hours: 10am-7pm Daily
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