This video features Part 2 of our introduction to Mr. Abe from “RF Café,” centered on a tasting report of their hotel-grade afternoon tea set. The content captures moments of amazement while actually savoring items like Niigata apple and white peach mint fruit tea, semifreddo made with cream cheese and yogurt, and handmade strawberry cake created in collaboration with Tachibana Greengrocer. The video emphasizes how they achieve authentic quality comparable to hotel wedding receptions at the incredible price of 650 yen (1,250 yen for the tea set). Mr. Abe shares his vision for the future, including developing original Joyful Minowa scones and collaborating with Tachibana Japanese Confectionery for matcha homemade sweet bean paste sandwiches, expressing his desire to become deeply rooted in the community through strengthening connections with local shops. The content fully conveys the charm of this hidden luxury café in the shopping street.
Host (Ishizaki) 0:01 From the little window! Oh! Walnut. Walnut scones.
Host (Takasugi) 0:10 It’s making me drool.
Host (Ishizaki) 0:21 It’s so wonderful how you serve from that little window.
Mr. Abe 0:15 Yes, this comes with semifreddo.
Host (Ishizaki) 0:22 Oh!
Host (Takasugi) 0:23 It’s really delicious. Even if this were in a department store, it wouldn’t lose at all.
Host (Ishizaki) 0:28 I see. So your recommendations are cakes?
Host (Takasugi) 0:30 Oh, well, cakes and scones.
Host (Ishizaki) 0:37 Is there another recommendation? Cakes, scones… ah, fruit tea.
Host (Ishizaki) 0:50 You have this lovely tea set today. Could you prepare it for us, Mr. Abe?
Mr. Abe 0:57 Yes, this is Shinshu apple and white peach mint tea.
Host (Ishizaki) 1:02 Oh, looks delicious.
Mr. Abe 1:13 This is Shinshu apple and strawberry fruit tea. Here’s honey if you’d like. The apple…
Host (Ishizaki) 1:29 Oh, nice. Oh, it really is apples! Bears love this. Please try it. How is it?
Host (Takasugi) 1:51 It’s delicious.
Host (Ishizaki) 1:54 It’s delicious, right? The aroma is amazing. The fragrance is incredible. Let me try some too. It has this refreshing apple quality and a mysterious sense of peace – it’s really healing. What’s in this with the apple?
Mr. Abe 2:42 White peach and mint.
Host (Ishizaki) 2:48 Peppermint. Ah, so that’s why the aftertaste has that cool sensation?
Mr. Abe 2:54 Yes, exactly. And it’s not too sweet.
Mr. Abe 3:11 The range is quite broad. I was wondering about the higher price point, but actually we’re probably selling more volume than we did in Nihonbashi.
Host (Ishizaki) 3:11 Oh, really?
Mr. Abe 3:14 These kinds of products just don’t exist elsewhere. People make special trips to buy them, so I’m glad we’re doing this.
Host (Ishizaki) 3:24 Where do you see RF Café going in the future?
Mr. Abe 3:29 I want to become rooted in this area, to really establish ourselves here.
Host (Ishizaki) 3:37 I heard earlier about creating something original?
Mr. Abe 3:43 Yes, scones. They might not be very familiar here, but I want to promote scones more prominently. Our sign does say “scones” after all.
Host (Takasugi) 4:02 So that would be Joyful Scones?
Mr. Abe 4:05 Yes, exactly.
Host (Takasugi) 4:05 When you say scones, people of a certain generation remember “Sukon Sukon Koike” (a famous TV commercial jingle).
Host (Ishizaki) 4:14 Yes, there was that!
Host (Takasugi) 4:20 So it would be “Sukon Sukon Joyful, Sukon Sukon Joyful Sukon.”
Mr. Abe 4:23 Yes, exactly.
Host (Ishizaki) 4:32 Ah, Joyful Minowa original scones!
Mr. Abe 4:35 Yes, it’s our signature menu item.
Mr. Abe 4:42 This is our new creation – matcha sweet bean paste chiffon sandwich. I’ve arranged it Joyful-style to make it easier to eat, using chiffon cake.
Host (Ishizaki) 4:54 Are you collaborating with Tachibana-san?
Mr. Abe 4:56 Yes, exactly. Tachibana-san has been incredibly helpful to us, and I asked if I could source their delicious sweet bean paste.
Mr. Abe 5:08 We blend two types – soft sweet bean paste and firmer sweet bean paste.
Host (Ishizaki) 5:14 I see.
Mr. Abe 5:16 And matcha from Shizuoka.
Mr. Abe 5:18 This comes with semifreddo. It contains cream cheese, so it’s close to custard.
Host (Ishizaki) 5:32 I’ve never heard of custard like that.
Host (Takasugi) 5:34 It’s Italian.
Mr. Abe 5:40 Takasugi-san, please try the chocolate mousse.
Host (Takasugi) 5:41 Oh, thank you. Since you can tell the difference.
Host (Ishizaki) 5:50 This arrangement of cake, pudding, whipped cream, strawberries and muscat grapes is beautiful. This is incredible. Should we try it? It seems a shame to break it apart. Let’s start with the pudding… oh wait, it’s not pudding.
Mr. Abe 6:24 Right, it’s semifreddo.
Host (Ishizaki) 6:25 Semifreddo. Oh, like frozen ice cream sponge?
Mr. Abe 6:29 It’s frozen. Made with cream cheese, yogurt, fresh cream and crushed frozen strawberries. And we slowly simmered our blueberry cassis to make this sauce.
Host (Ishizaki) 6:44 I see. This is definitely a flavor women would love. The texture is refreshingly cold and perfect for this season. And the cassis flavor is so rich. This is absolutely a taste girls would love, and I can understand why Takasugi-san makes RF Café’s cakes his meals.
It’s delicious. The whipped cream is so cute, isn’t it? Like angel wings.
Host (Takasugi) 7:41 Angel… something I can’t quite say.
Host (Ishizaki) 7:44 Let’s try the cake. It’s a shame to break it apart. Should I start from the strawberry area? Oh, I broke it.
Mr. Abe 7:58 These are strawberries selected by Gon-san.
Host (Ishizaki) 7:59 Ah, Gon-san’s… Delicious! This is incredible, absolutely incredible.
Mr. Abe 8:13 My assistant says the quality is amazing.
Host (Ishizaki) 8:17 The whipped cream is so fluffy and not too sweet. This balance isn’t sweet at all.
Mr. Abe 8:24 I can make it rich, but achieving this balance is difficult.
Host (Ishizaki) 8:30 This is highly recommended. The whipped cream isn’t too sweet, the sponge is really fluffy and light. It looks sweet but isn’t at all, and the strawberry’s slight tartness complements it perfectly. This is Joyful love – Gon-san’s love. There’s a greengrocer diagonally across – we collaborate using their strawberries. It’s incredibly delicious.
Mr. Abe 9:10 650 yen! It’s a crazy price!
Host (Ishizaki) 9:13 Wait, 650 yen?
Mr. Abe 9:14 With the tea set, it’s about 1,250 yen!
Host (Ishizaki) 9:17 I’m shocked.
Mr. Abe 9:20 But we’re currently offering it standalone with extras for 650 yen.
Host (Ishizaki) 9:24 That’s incredibly cheap.
Mr. Abe 9:25 Elsewhere it would probably be around 1,200 yen.
Host (Ishizaki) 9:30 Right. That certain tea shop is more expensive. The man who can tell the difference, the restaurant god has descended. A word from the man who knows the difference.
Host (Takasugi) 9:57 The sponge – you might know this – many places are quite careless, but this sponge is calculated for this exact taste.
Host (Ishizaki) 10:12 How’s the matcha?
Host (Takasugi) 10:14 The matcha is so good it’s troubling!
Mr. Abe 10:17 Thank you, I’m happy to hear that.
Host (Ishizaki) 10:22 Let’s try the chocolate canelé too.
Host (Takasugi) 10:22 This chiffon melts in your mouth. This kind of texture isn’t easy to achieve. It’s wonderful.
Mr. Abe 10:40 Thank you, I’m really glad.
Host (Ishizaki) 10:42 The chocolate canelé…
Host (Takasugi) 10:43 Just a little chocolate!
Mr. Abe 10:44 You can warm it up to make it fondant-like too.
Host (Takasugi) 10:47 I really think this is like food served at luxury hotel weddings.
Host (Ishizaki) 11:00 Exactly. Like what comes out at the end.
Mr. Abe 11:04 Thank you very much.
Host (Ishizaki) 11:06 No doubt about it! Amazing!
Host (Ishizaki) 11:09 Thank you. This became our first food report. Did we convey it well?
Host (Takasugi) 10:47 It’s the best. Absolutely the best.
Host (Ishizaki) 11:24 Thank you for today. This was Mr. Abe from RF Café.
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