Uncle Tetsu’s Cheesecake

Rating: 5⭐

Ordered: 
- original crepe brulee: $15.50

Like, yes. This is 100% a gimmick. But also? It was really good. 

These crepes are completely on par with Harajuku crepes. I've yet to find any crepes that do it like Harajuku crepes, but these creme brulee crepes actually meet the competition. There is a gap in the market of sweet crepes and Uncle Tetsu discovered it and is capitalising on it. Harajuku crepes doesn't have creme brulee crepes. The creme brulee crepes were really really good.

They only have two flavours here - the classic cream and strawberry and the other is chocolate and passionfruit, which feels like a strange combo. I got the classic. Pretty much everything is identical to Harajuku crepes - they are made to order, you can watch through the window of them making your crepe, and piping in the cream and sprinkling in the strawberries and drizzling in the strawberry syrup. At the end they pipe some cream at the top and also lather what I guess is the creme part of the creme brulee at the top to cover the whole crepe. Sprinkle with sugar, blast it with the blowtorch and bam. Creme brulee crepe. 

The crepe itself was just as soft and sturdy as Harajuku's. The strawberries were not too sour to be overpowering but melded well with the cream. The brulee at the top was easy to crack, deliciously sweet, and having the sugar pieces with the rest of the creamy strawberry was a match made in heaven. It was honestly, very good. There are also pieces of Japanese cheesecake inside, because this is a place that primarily sells Japanese cheesecakes. Man. On par with Harajuku. I'm reluctantly impressed, because it does inherently feel like such a gimmick. Price-wise they are similar to Harajuku's. 

No card surcharge here.