I've been to both the regular Uncle tetsu and the matcha cafe. The regular cheesecake is good. Be sure to refrigerate it before eating because the taste is a lot nicer. It tastes pretty bland at room temperature. Today I decided to try the matcha cafe. I bought the matcha cheesecake, the matcha madeleine with red bean, and the matcha soft serve.
When I took the matcha cheesecake out of the box to see it, It was extremely cracked and broken, and I could see the insides were still wet. It was VERY undercooked and I can't believe they actually packaged it and gave it to me! Luckily I was still in the shop so I asked for another one. The girl working in front apologized and gave me another cake quickly. I checked it again and it looked okay. The shape of the cake was definitely not as round and raised as the original one, but I let that pass. Fast forward to when I got home. I let it sit in the fridge for a couple of hours and then took it out to cut and eat. The cake fell apart while I was cutting it, unlike the clean cut with the original cake. The taste was pretty good, it has a Japanese cheesecake taste with a punch of matcha, but the texture was off. It was still a bit too wet and slightly undercooked. I think the batch that they made today was just taken out of the oven too fast. Or maybe the matcha flavour is known to be more wet... Someone please offer some insight here.
My review on the matcha red bean madeleine : it was great! Texture was on point and the red bean really compliments the taste of matcha!
The matcha soft serve: I expected it to be more on the creamy side... It seemed more like a sorbet to me. The taste was eh. It's too water based for me.
From my experience, the original uncle tetsu seems more consistent with their cakes. I really want to give the matcha cheesecake another shot, just because I've heard that people like the matcha cheesecake more than the original. Maybe today was just bad luck.