{"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","url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/products\/mister-ito-languly-chocolate-cream","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}