Pastry House Hippo -- Because things go better with bread

I was at the Mitsuwa shopping center in Arlington Heights today and stopped at the Pastry House Hippo. I decided to try some of the more unusual stuff, so I bought a takoyaki, a "potato donut," and a "fruit sandwich." The "takoyaki" wasn't a real takoyaki (at least going by what I could find on the Web), but an ordinary bun stuffed with a sort of octopus croquette. The "potato donut," too, was a potato croquette (though with bits of some kind of seafood in it, I believe) coated with dough and deep-fried. (It wasn't actually a doughnut; it was more sort of bialy-shaped.) And the fruit sandwich turned out to be just that: a filling of whipped cream and a variety of fresh fruit pieces between two slices of white bread with the crusts cut off. The fruit sandwich was actually quite good; the potato donut is worth trying, too, if you're in the mood for very greasy junk food.


The store also had various bread sculptures on display. (They may have been there before, but if so I never noticed them.) The strangest were two working clocks: of course, the mechanisms weren't bread, but the faces were. Most of these weren't for sale, but if you want to buy a rose made of bread for Mother's Day, you're not too late.

Dude,

I love pastry house hippo, I don't get out there too often, but its one of the highlights of any mitsuwa trip.

I always liked their ice cream too, and a while back I remember Monica Eng doing a piece on those brazilian cheese puff thingies and coming to the unexpected conclusion that their's were about the best around.

zim wrote:I always liked their ice cream too

They don't serve ice cream these days, now that there's a new ice cream / cold tea / coffee place that opened up in the food court area.