{"title":"Languly Cream Biscuits","description":"\u003cp\u003eThin, crisp langue de chat biscuits from Mister Ito, sandwiched around a cream: vanilla and chocolate all year, and a seasonal flavour or two beside them. For the wider shelf, see \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-biscuits\"\u003eJapanese Biscuits\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mister-ito-languly-vanilla-cream","title":"Mister Ito Languly Vanilla Cream Biscuits — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo crisp biscuits with a sweet vanilla cream between them, twelve to a box, in four sealed packs of three. The biscuit is a langue de chat, French for \"cat's tongue\", which is the flat oval biscuit this one is built from. If you'd rather have a plain biscuit with your coffee than another chocolate one, this is that biscuit, and it's an everyday Japanese supermarket sweet rather than a gift-shop one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnow one thing before it arrives: it is \u003cstrong\u003ethicker than the delicate French biscuit the name promises\u003c\/strong\u003e. That catches out anyone expecting something wispy, and it is also why one biscuit is genuinely filling rather than a mouthful of air. Ito Biscuits has been making the Languly line since 1979, and had sold 150 million units across the whole line by its fortieth anniversary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eラングリー バニラクリーム: the name on the box, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan. The brand reads \u003cem\u003erangurii\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Sweet, plainly so, and the biscuit carries more of the sweetness than the filling does. The cream tastes closer to white chocolate than to anything dairy. How sweet is a real matter of taste here: this sits at the sweeter end of a plain biscuit, not the restrained end.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fine-grained and short, with a crumble to it rather than a hard snap, and a browned rim around each biscuit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe bit Australians don't expect\u003c\/strong\u003e: There's no big bag. The twelve come as four sealed packs of three, so the rest stay crisp once you've opened one, and a pack survives a day in a bag without turning to crumbs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe cream is not dairy cream\u003c\/strong\u003e: It's a fat-based sandwich cream. It does contain milk solids.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest caveat\u003c\/strong\u003e: The cream layer is thin. If a thick filling is what you're after, this isn't it: you are eating this for the biscuit, not for what's between it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt travels better than most biscuits: the sealed inner packs do the protecting, not the outer box. Heat is the thing to watch rather than breakage: a langue de chat goes soft in warmth and humidity, so keep it out of a hot car and off a sunny doorstep and it stays crisp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTake one box if you're trying it. The chocolate version of the same biscuit sits beside it on the shelf, and the two are worth reading side by side before you choose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mister Ito","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269688635618,"sku":"SH-SNK-0015","price":4.62,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/mister-ito-languly-vanilla-cream-box.webp?v=1787899418"},{"product_id":"mister-ito-languly-chocolate-cream","title":"Mister Ito Languly Chocolate Cream Biscuits — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo crisp biscuits with a cocoa cream between them, twelve to a box, in four sealed packs of three. The biscuit is a langue de chat, French for \"cat's tongue\", the flat oval biscuit this one is built from. It's an everyday Japanese supermarket sweet, and the thing to understand before you buy is that \u003cstrong\u003ethe biscuit leads and the chocolate accompanies\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat isn't a criticism, but it is the whole argument. The cream layer is thin and deliberately restrained, and people divide sharply over it. If you want a chocolate hit, buy chocolate. If you want a biscuit that happens to have cocoa in it, that is exactly what this is. Ito Biscuits has been making the Languly line since 1979, and had sold 150 million units across the whole line by its fortieth anniversary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eラングリー チョコレートクリーム: the name on the box, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan. The brand reads \u003cem\u003erangurii\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Sweet, but the sweetness sits in the biscuit rather than the filling. The cocoa cream is quiet and faintly bitter against it, steadying the biscuit rather than adding to it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fine-grained and short, with a crumble to it rather than a hard snap, and a browned rim around each biscuit. It's thicker than the delicate French biscuit the name promises.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat the filling actually is\u003c\/strong\u003e: In Japan it's labelled \u003cem\u003ejun-chocolate\u003c\/em\u003e, a defined lower grade: at least 15% cocoa solids where chocolate proper needs 35%, and made with vegetable fat rather than cocoa butter. It's a cocoa cream, and we'd rather say so than let the word \"chocolate\" do work it hasn't earned.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe bit Australians don't expect\u003c\/strong\u003e: There's no big bag. The twelve come as four sealed packs of three, so the rest stay crisp once you've opened one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest caveat\u003c\/strong\u003e: It's a dry biscuit and it takes some moisture with it. Have a drink to hand; black coffee is the natural one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot to be confused with the same maker's Languly Premium Shocola, which is a richer, separate product: cocoa blended into the biscuit itself and a white chocolate cream. This is the standard one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn warm weather the cocoa cream can soften, so treat it as a summer consideration rather than a surprise: heat, not handling, is the risk here, because the sealed inner packs do the protecting rather than the outer box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTake one box if you're trying it. The vanilla version of the same biscuit sits beside it on the shelf, and the two are worth reading side by side before you choose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mister Ito","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269689028834,"sku":"SH-SNK-0016","price":4.93,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/mister-ito-languly-chocolate-cream-box.webp?v=1787899973"},{"product_id":"mister-ito-languly-assam-milk-tea","title":"Mister Ito Languly Assam Milk Tea Biscuits — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thin, crisp biscuit with a milk-tea cream between two of them, twelve to a box. The tea leads: it is the first thing you get, not a background note behind the sugar. If you want a biscuit whose flavour is the reason you picked it up, this is that one: if you want the biscuit itself to be the star, the vanilla or chocolate Languly will suit you better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eラングリー アッサム香るミルクティー. Look for the navy box with the teacup on it and the red seasonal flash in the corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe tea is Assam, and it is forward.\u003c\/strong\u003e It goes into the cream as a tea extract rather than as leaf, and you get it the moment the pack opens.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA langue de chat, a thin, crisp, buttery biscuit\u003c\/strong\u003e: but a noticeably thicker one than the delicate French version the name comes from. It snaps rather than shatters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwelve biscuits, as four sealed packs of three\u003c\/strong\u003e: so it is four sittings rather than one, and the rest stay crisp once you have opened the first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest caveat: the tea can win.\u003c\/strong\u003e People who love this biscuit plain sometimes find the milk tea walks over it, and that is a fair description rather than a fault. It is a strongly flavoured biscuit and it is meant to be.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cream itself is a fat-based filling rather than dairy cream, though it does carry milk. It is the same biscuit as the vanilla and chocolate Languly: across the range only the cream changes. Ito Biscuits has been making the Languly line since 1979, and had sold 150 million units across the whole line by its fortieth anniversary — that record belongs to the line, and this is one of its seasonal editions rather than one of the two year-round flavours, so it comes and goes: the chocolate and vanilla are the ones that are always there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mister Ito","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290700689634,"sku":"SH-SNK-0035","price":4.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/mister-ito-languly-assam-milk-tea-box.webp?v=1788159084"},{"product_id":"mister-ito-languly-uji-matcha","title":"Mister Ito Languly Uji Matcha Biscuits — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thin, crisp biscuit with a matcha cream between two of them, twelve to a box. The honest version: the biscuit is the strong part here, thick, properly crisp, better than it needs to be, and the matcha is light. You taste a gentle green sweetness rather than a bracing bowl of tea. If you want a matcha biscuit you can eat three of in a row, this is it; if you want matcha that bites back, this is not the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eラングリー 宇治抹茶玉露入り. Look for the deep green box with the little paper tag and the red parasol on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe biscuit is the reason to buy it.\u003c\/strong\u003e A langue de chat, a thin, crisp, buttery biscuit, but thicker than the delicate French version the name comes from, so it snaps rather than shatters. The browned rim on each one is deliberate, and the bakery treats it as the sign of a good bake.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReal tea is in the cream, and so is gyokuro\u003c\/strong\u003e: a shaded green tea, both as ingredients in their own right rather than flavourings. The maker adds the gyokuro deliberately as a background note, and almost nobody picks it out as a separate thing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe caveat, said plainly: the matcha is not strong.\u003c\/strong\u003e This is not a dark, bitter, ceremonial-grade hit, the cream tastes closer to a sweet white chocolate with green tea through it. As an easy-to-eat green-tea biscuit, it is a good one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe green is not all matcha.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gardenia and turmeric are on the ingredient list as colouring, alongside the tea. Worth knowing, since the colour is the first thing that sells it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwelve biscuits, as four sealed packs of three\u003c\/strong\u003e: so it is four sittings rather than one, the rest stay crisp once you have opened the first, and the box survives a bag without turning to crumbs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGyokuro is the shaded tea described above; you are not meant to taste it as a separate thing. Uji is the Kyoto tea district the maker names this cream after, no farm or grower is named behind it, so read it as the pack's own name for the flavour rather than an address. People divide sharply over how sweet the whole biscuit is, and every box tastes the same: some find it restrained and some find it a sweet biscuit with a green cream. It is the same biscuit as the vanilla and chocolate Languly: across the range only the cream changes. Ito Biscuits has been making the Languly line since 1979, and had sold 150 million units across the whole line by its fortieth anniversary — that record belongs to the line, and this is one of its seasonal editions rather than one of the two year-round flavours, so it comes and goes: the chocolate and vanilla are the ones that are always there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mister Ito","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290700820706,"sku":"SH-SNK-0036","price":4.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/mister-ito-languly-uji-matcha-box.webp?v=1788159242"}],"url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/collections\/languly.oembed","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}