Heard the crazy line up so when I came back to Toronto wanted to check this out. I grew up on the fake chinese version of this and had this once in Japan where I also fell out of my chair on how good it was. Was curious how this fell on the spectrum.
I would say if fake chinese is a 4 and the one in Japan is a 10, this is a solid 7.5. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty good. Maybe I'm biased cuz I didn't eat it in Japan. I felt that the one in Japan was even more creamy and fluffy - though it could just be my memory.
Great cheesecake nonetheless. I've tried both Matcha (no red bean) and original. Tbh, I think they are both really good and no idea why no one lines up for the matcha. It is a bit smaller but the matcha taste is awesome.
My fiance loves getting the matcha ice cream too. that's a real winner.