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Today the Hereios of the We’re Here! Group are visiting Chocolate Lovers. Someone dropped their wrapper on the golf course.
Anyone else remember Monster Chews? They were sort of like Laffy Taffy but had monsters on the wrappers.
I first started getting them in the late '80s. I think they came in banana, strawberry and grape.
The ones pictured are later versions from the early '90s. I think at that time there were only two flavors--cherry and grape.
They are marked with "Fun Stuff" and "Confex".
fairly mundane/modern looking except for the red stripe and "home of the whopper" at the bottom - the only fast food bag in the latest lot.....
Yummy crepes are great for a quick dessert in Box Hill :)
The 2 helpful girls were nice enough to put our crepes on a plate and serve it up just like in the plastic models on the wall. Typically Japanese-style crepes are served in a cone and eaten with a spoon or by nibbling at the edges.
Ichipan Crepes
Box Hill mall
Market St, Box Hill VIC 3128
Photos:
- Strawberry and Red Bean Crepe with Ice Cream - AUD6.10
Reviews:
- Box Hill blues, by John Lethlean, The Age, Epicure, November 3, 2007 In the Box Hill mall, a small retail slice of Kowloon right here in Melbourne where an old-fashioned continental deli, a daggy old discount shoe shop and a medical practice is about all that's left to remind us of another time, we found the gloriously bright Ichipan Crepes.
"Oooh," cooed my daughter at the sight of the Japanese dolls in the window and all these lurid and synthetic resin models of designer Japanese crepes to go. "We're coming back here."
Alongside models of crepes layered with all sorts of fruit, creams, custards and legumes were savoury versions, with lettuce and tuna or chicken with curry sauce. Seeing them presented this way, in all their shiny glory, was really a case of just a little too much information. A monster flat-screen television belted out Japanese pop videos while people stood watching the crepes made to order; they're then filled and rolled into a cone shape and served in a bright paper wrapper.
My first Ichipan experience, with lettuce, chicken and satay sauce, had a kind of crisp, biscuity texture closer to a waffle than what most of us might think of as a crepe; the sensation of tasting - first - a sweet wrapping followed by the savoury innards was a little disconcerting. I sat outside in the mall where everyone smokes and a little Chinese lady from inside Ichipan - not in uniform but clearly associated with the business - came out to suggest that now they had a bright red espresso machine, I probably should order a coffee.
I told her I'd settle for a second "delicious" crepe instead.
The next, made by a different crepe meister, was far more pliable; it was apple and red bean. For $6 I thought it rather pleasant, if a little sweet.
Ichipan is a Hong Kong international franchise; there's one in the CBD that opened last year and they're in Saudi Arabia and Canada.
I'm not sure I'd race back for a "Nagoya Buzz" or a "Cold Peach"; Japan has given us plenty of good things to eat such as eel with fermented soy bean paste and rice with sea urchin roe. And besides, I suspect the Ichipan crepe is to an authentic Japanese crepe what Dominoes is to Neapolitan pizza.
Still, it adds a bit of colour to the ever-surprising Box Hill Central. And it might give you something to do if you find the yum cha trolley has that same look about it every time it goes past.