Bakery: pâtisserie Sadaharu AOKI paris    
Address: 〒150-0002 東京都渋谷区渋谷2-21-1 (渋谷ヒカリエ ShinQs B2F)
Area: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Nearest Station: Shibuya (渋谷)

Before coming to Tokyo, I came across a Tokyo Eats post about Sadaharu Aoki’s “Tokyo Macaron Yaki”. It’s a matcha flavored imagawayaki (round, thick cake typically filled with red bean paste) with a chocolate macaron inside!

Aoki is a Japanese-born patissier based in France, with patisseries in Paris, Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Taipei. They carry a variety of macarons and desserts.

If you’re lucky, you can see them making macaron yaki behind a glass window next to the cashier. As you can tell from the photo above, I didn’t get to see them in action. ;(

The macaron yaki was hot, so perhaps they had made it a bit earlier. I ate it while it was hot, so the macaron was soft, moist, and cakey with the imagawayaki. It was like eating matcha imagawayaki with a chocolate cake inside.

Imagawayaki is best eaten hot and freshly made, while macarons are best eaten at room temperature. I would think the macaron would be a bit crunchier if the macaron yaki was eaten at room temperature, or maybe not?