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I’ll raise you Japanese desserts. If you’ve ever marveled over the bottom floor food hall of a Japanese department store, then you know what I mean. The best croissants I’ve had have all been from Japan, and not France. [/quote]

Indeed.  Japanese take everything to the extreme in terms of perfection. Strawberry shortcake from Japan is unbeatable.[/quote]
I am central European desserts pp. I've never been to Japan. What kind of desserts are we talking about?[/quote]

They have western deserts in Japan.

You simply have to understand Japanese philosophy and culture. A strawberry isn't just a strawberry, and a melon isn't just a melon because the look like ones. Japanese take perfection to the extreme.  Strawberries are grown to look *perfect*.  Melons are grown to look *perfect*.  And not only do they look perfect, they're grown to taste perfect. Take the concept of a melon or a strawberry and think about their zenith potential for taste and appearance. That's what they have in Japan. You've never truly had a good strawberry or melon until you've been to Japan.  I mean you'll certainly pay for it.....a single perfect strawberry might cost $12 while a slice of perfect melon might cost $20+, but it will open your mind to how good a price of fruit can truly taste.

Now take that kind of extreme perfectionism for craft, taste, and appearance to everything from coffee to confections.  The Japanese are masters of cooking and baking.  They perfect things from everything like strawberry shortcake to ice creams to cheesecakes to basically every kind of western dessert you can imagine.

Of course there are Japanese style sweets that are fantastic, but are probably less appealing to westerners who like heavier desserts.  The Japanese do western style desserts often better than westerners themselves.  Heck, I'd even argue that even Thailand does that too in their crazy rich asian shopping malls, fancy hotels and boutique cafes. But yeah, this is what the ground floor of a typical Japanese department store looks like,they're monuments to perfectionism:

[img]https://c8.alamy.com/comp/MBD0RM/tokyo-japan-akihabara-department-store-desserts-display-case-kanji-hiragana-katakana-characters-symbols-japanese-english-fruit-t-MBD0RM.jpg[/img]

[img]https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/11377-66557/1000/kanagawa-japan-s-famous-food-basements-66557.jpg[/img]

[img]https://savvytokyo.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/app/uploads/2016/11/hidemi-sugino-13-768x568.jpg[/img]

[img]https://monanomura.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/img_4518.jpg[/img]

One thing that Europe wins hands down on though is chocolate.  Japanese don't do it all that well like Belgians or Germans.

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Agree about Japan, but also keep in mind our low baseline/standards as Americans. Fruit and produce in many other countries around the world taste much much better than we are used to in the States. In SK, for example, fruit tastes very good but is very expensive. Same with beef. The same is true in some of the Middle East as well. [/quote]

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