Made byIto Biscuits Co., Ltd.Ibaraki, Japan

Mister Ito Languly Vanilla Cream Biscuits 12 Pieces

Two crisp biscuits with a sweet vanilla cream between them, twelve to a box, in four sealed packs of three.

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Why we say this

The Languly line had sold 150 million biscuits in total, across all flavours and sizes, between its launch in 1979 and its fortieth anniversary in 2019.

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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 thin French 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 had sold 150 million biscuits across the whole Languly 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 name reads rangurii.

What you're getting

  • Taste: Sweet, and the cream tastes a lot like white chocolate. How sweet is a real matter of taste here: some people find it nicely judged, others find it too sweet.
  • Texture: Crisp and fine-grained, with 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 carried in a bag doesn't easily turn 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, and may contain peanut and macadamia. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.

In the post, the sealed inner packs, held in their tray, are what keep the biscuits whole: the biscuits themselves break easily, so they travel in their packs. Heat and humidity are the other thing to watch: the box asks for it to be kept away from both, and damp is what turns a crisp biscuit soft, so keep it out of a hot car and off a sunny doorstep.

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

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.

For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.

Allergens
Contains
  • Wheat
  • Egg
  • Milk
  • Soy
May contain
  • Peanut
  • Macadamia

Not ingredients — these are made or handled on the same equipment as this product, so traces are possible. We list every shared-equipment allergen stated on the pack or by the maker.

For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.

Nutrition
Nutrition
Per biscuit
Energy 247 kJ (59 kcal)
Protein 0.7 g
Fat 3.2 g
Carbohydrate 6.8 g
Sodium 20 mg

From the Japanese pack's nutrition panel — not the Australian nutrition information panel. The Japanese pack gives no saturated fat or sugars figure. The kJ figures and sodium (from the pack's salt equivalent, 食塩相当量, ÷ 2.54) are our calculation.

Details
Maker
Ito Biscuits Co., Ltd. · Ibaraki
Made in
Japan
Net contents
12 biscuits, four sealed packs of three

Our guide

How to eat it

Good to know

  • Pour something first. It's a crisp, fairly dry 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.

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The maker

Where it comes from

  • Ito Biscuits Co., Ltd.
  • Ibaraki

Ito Biscuits calls itself a cookie and biscuit specialist. 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)