It's been 2 weeks since my last visit to the Matcha Cafe, and I decided to give this place a 2nd chance.
There's no confusion about the buy 3 get 1 free offer today. With just a few customers ahead of me when I arrived at 3:45 pm, I was in and out in 5 mins.
I ordered a matcha soft serve in a cup plus 4 matcha azuki madeleines. Total with taxes came to $13.50. This time my matcha soft serve tasted a lot better. The bitterness from matcha was well balanced by the sweetness in the ice cream. However, it's still not creamy like what I had in Japan. So if you like a lighter or icier version, you might enjoy it.
No change in rating unfortunately. I have an OCD for consistency. The matcha soft serve I had today is almost 50% bigger than the skinny mini I had 2 weeks ago. If the previous one felt like a DQ small, this is almost the size of a DQ medium.
As for the matcha azuki (red bean) madeleines, they look like they shrunk in size to fit into the new (and smaller) boxes. Also the ones I had 2 weeks ago had a lot of azuki filling - like half its depth is filled with red bean paste. Today's is perhaps less than 1/4 of its depth... Quality control inconsistency? Or are they cheaping it out?