This past weekend, I took a trip to Tokyo to visit my brother.  We had a great time walking around the city streets, taking in the all the sights and sounds of a bustling metropolis.  My brother and I love to people-watch and drift in and out of shops at our leisure, but our most favorite thing to do is eat.  There’s no doubt about it, my brother and I are gluttons.  We ate our way through Tokyo, enjoying everything from Middle Eastern food to more traditional bowls of ramen.  I think one of the highlights of our culinary tour was our stop at the Dominique Ansel bakery.  Dominique Ansel is a New York City pastry chef who invented the “cronut” back in the early 2010’s.  What is a cronut?  It is basically a pastry that is a croissant and donut fusion.  It’s chewy, sweet, and beautiful to look at.  We were lucky enough to grab a raspberry and praline flavored cronut.  It was delicious!  I don’t normally like donuts, but these special treats are definitely an exception for me. I can’t wait to go back and get another one!

(Just look at that bad mamma-jamma… YUM!)