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