Product information
About
A 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.
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.
What you're getting
- The tea is Assam, and it is forward. It goes into the cream as a tea extract rather than as leaf, and you get it the moment the pack opens.
- A langue de chat, a thin, crisp, buttery biscuit: but a noticeably thicker one than the delicate French version the name comes from. It snaps rather than shatters.
- Twelve biscuits, as four sealed packs of three: so it is four sittings rather than one, and the rest stay crisp once you have opened the first.
- The honest caveat: the tea can win. 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.
- Allergens: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
The 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.
Ingredients
The maker's ingredient list, translated from the Japanese pack. Anything after the break is an additive — the Japanese label lists those separately.
Wheat flour (produced in Japan), beet sugar, shortening, margarine, egg, egg white, sugar, fat-processed food — this is the cream — (sugar, vegetable oil, starch hydrolysate, whole milk powder, skim milk powder), salt, whole milk powder, starch hydrolysate, black tea extract powder
flavouring, caramel colour, emulsifier, cyclic oligosaccharide. Contains wheat, egg, milk and soy.
The printed label on the pack is always the authority on ingredients and allergens, not this page — please read it in full before you rely on our summary. If you are unsure about an ingredient, contact us.
Allergens
The maker declares:
- Allergens
-
- Wheat
- Egg
- Milk
- Soy
The printed label on the pack is always the authority on ingredients and allergens, not this page — please read it in full before you rely on our summary. If you are unsure about an ingredient, contact us.
Details
- Maker
- Ito Biscuits Co., Ltd.
- Prefecture
- Ibaraki
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- 12 biscuits, four sealed packs of three
Our guide
How to eat it
- Drink something unsweetened with it: plain black tea is the pairing that works. The cream is already a sweet milk tea, so a sweet milky brew alongside it doubles up and flattens both.
- Keep it somewhere airtight once a pack is open. A thin biscuit like this takes up moisture from warm, humid air and goes soft, and once it bends instead of snapping, it is finished.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
What do the numbers mean?
Counts of how many reviews mentioned each thing, not a score. One review can mention several. Every quote is our translation, with the original Japanese beneath it.
- What they like
The milk-tea aroma wafts out.
ミルクティーの香りが漂います
mentioned in 6 of 23 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
The black-tea flavour is properly there and it's very good.
紅茶の味がしっかりあってとても美味しい
from monolog
- What they grumble about
A shame the cookie's own tastiness was wiped out by the milk-tea aroma.
クッキーのおいしさがミルクティーの香りで消えてたのが残念だった
from monolog
- What they like
Delicious! I love milk tea so I bought it instantly.
美味しい！ミルクティー大好きなので即購入
from monolog
- What they like
It went really well with unsweetened black tea.
無糖紅茶によく合いました。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
I love this cookie's taste and this was the first milk-tea version I'd seen — it was good, but I felt the milk tea cancelled out the cookie's own flavour.
このクッキーの味が大好きで初めて見たミルクティー味、美味しかったですがミルクティーの味がクッキーの味をなくしてしまってるように思いました。
from monolog
- What they like
A limited-edition item — the milk-tea cream really comes through, and it's good.
期間限定品でミルクティーのクリームが効いてて美味しい
from monolog
- What they like
The sweetness is restrained.
甘さが控えめ
from monolog
- What they grumble about
It was underwhelming.
いまいちだった
from monolog
- What they like
I'd honestly want to eat it all year round.
通年で食べたいくらいです
from monolog
- What they like
Mister Ito is good.
ミスターイトウは美味い
from monolog
- What they like
The milk-tea flavour is delicious.
ミルクティー味が美味しい
from monolog
Real quotes from Japanese review sites (monolog), translated by us. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Ito Biscuits Co., Ltd.
- Ibaraki
Ito Biscuits has made one thing properly for a long time. Languly launched in March 1979 with two flavours, chocolate cream and tea cream — the vanilla everyone reaches for now came later — and the idea was to take langue de chat, which in Japan then meant an expensive tin you were given as a gift, and put it in an ordinary supermarket for everyday money.
The biscuit has been quietly revised ever since. In 2020 the bakery moved to a two-stage method of working the egg into the dough, deliberately mixing it more than you would think sensible, to get a finer crumb and a cleaner finish in the mouth. The ovens run to a controlled humidity as well as a controlled heat, which is what produces the browned rim around each biscuit: the bakery treats that rim as the sign the bake went right, and has given it a name.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: mr-ito-shop.jp (opens in a new tab)
Often bought together
-
Mister Ito Languly Assam Milk Tea Biscuits — 12 Pieces
$4.94
You are on this one
