Product information
About
Two 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.
Know one thing before it arrives: it is thicker than the delicate French biscuit the name promises. 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.
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 rangurii.
What you're getting
- Taste: 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.
- Texture: Fine-grained and short, with a crumble to it rather than a hard snap, and a browned rim around each biscuit.
- The bit Australians don't expect: 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.
- The cream is not dairy cream: It's a fat-based sandwich cream. It does contain milk solids.
- The honest caveat: 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.
- Allergens: Contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
It 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.
Take 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.
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), fat-processed food — this is the cream — (sugar, vegetable oil, starch hydrolysate, skim milk powder, whole milk powder), beet sugar, margarine, shortening, egg, egg white, salt
emulsifier, flavouring. 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
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- 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
- Pour something first. It's a dry, crumbly biscuit, and coffee, black tea and green tea all sit well beside it.
- Keep it somewhere cool and out of direct sun, and leave the unopened packs sealed. They are what keeps the rest crisp; once one is open there is nothing left to reseal.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
The langue de chat is crisp and then just melts away in your mouth.
「ラングドシャがサクサクでくちどけてく✨」
from mognavi
- What they like
Mr Ito's biscuit has real thickness and a crunch to it — delicious!
「ミスターイトウのクッキー厚みがあってザクザクでおいしい！」
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
It's quite sweet. I bought it as a snack but even the kids only eat one — because it's too sweet.
「かなり甘いですね。おやつに買いましたが、子供も１つしか食べません。甘すぎるから。」
from monolog
- What they like
Anyone wanting more butter in the biscuit may find it lacking, but I love this dry, crumbly feel!!
「クッキーにバター感が欲しい人は物足りないかもしれないけど、わたしはこのもそもそ感が好き！！」
from mognavi
- What they like
Super-crisp langue de chat matched with a vanilla cream like white chocolate.
「サックサクのラングドシャにホワイトチョコみたいなバニラクリームがマッチしてる。」
from monolog
- What they like
The crispness of the langue de chat and the sweetness of the cream go together perfectly — once you start you can't stop.
「ラングドシャのサクサク感と、クリームの甘さが絶妙に合っていて食べ出したら止まらなくなります。」
from monolog
- What they like
Being individually portioned, there's no worry about it going soft, and I feel it stops me overeating.
「小分けになっているので、しける心配がないし食べ過ぎ防止にもなっている気がします。」
from monolog
- What they grumble about
The langue de chat was thicker than I expected — it didn't have the delicacy I'd pictured.
「ラングドシャが思ってたより分厚くてイメージしている繊細な感じはなかったです。」
from monolog
- What they like
The portion in each pack is just right. It doesn't crumble easily when you carry it around.
「小分けの量がちょうどいい。持ち運んでもボロボロになりにくい。」
from monolog
- What they like
Because it's in small packs it's a good finishable size. It's delicious chilled.
「小分けになってるから、食べきりでちょうどいい。冷やすとおいしい」
from monolog
- What they like
Langue-de-chat biscuit with vanilla cream! Coffee! Black tea! Green tea! Oolong! It's good with absolutely anything.
「ラングードシャクッキー？にバニラクリーム!コーヒー!紅茶!緑茶!烏龍茶とにかく何にでも合う美味しさです。」
from monolog
- What they like
Crisp and sweet — it's soothing. I like eating it with black coffee.
「サクサクで甘くて、癒されます。ブラックコーヒーと一緒に食べるのが好きです。」
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Compared to other langue de chat the white-chocolate ratio is low — if a langue de chat is 2:1, this Languly is 10:1.
「他のラング・ド・シャと比べ ホワイトチョコの比率が少ない ラング・ド・シャが2:1とすれば このラングリーは10:1」
from monolog
- What they like
The vanilla cream especially I adore — I've been eating it since childhood, more times than I can count.
「特にバニラクリームが大好きで、子供の頃から何度購入したかわからないくらい食べてます。」
from mognavi
- What they like
I bought it because I like langue de chat. I usually buy the chocolate, so I was curious about the vanilla cream too. It was good, so I bought it again.
「ラングドシャが好きで買いました。いつもはチョコを買っていたのでバニラクリームも気になったので買いました。 美味しかったのでリピ買いました。」
from monolog
Real quotes from Japanese review sites (mognavi, 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 calls itself a cookie and biscuit specialist, and that is genuinely all it makes, no chocolate bars, no crisps, no drinks. Languly has been in production since 1979.
The biscuits are baked at the company's own factory in Omitama, in Ibaraki, north-east of Tokyo.
The thing they talk about most is the dough. They add an extra mixing stage to it, and they tune the oven's humidity as well as its heat to the state the dough is in. The browned rim around the edge of each biscuit is how they tell it worked.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: mr-ito-shop.jp (opens in a new tab)
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