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What's on the bill this Easter at J-P Hévin

 

Remind me (next year) not to go through Midtown any time near Easter. It's impossible to go past the Jean-Paul Hévin shop without stopping, gawping, drooling and finally buying one of their trademark weirdo eggs.

This year's selection sported appendages in the shapes of a) a duck's bill; b) some sort of pig (or other animal) mouth; and c) a chicken's beak.

It was c) that really grabbed me...

 

But a) was the only one left. So I snapped it up and hauled it home. Where it started to look more like a platypus than anything else...

 

I also picked up a smaller milk-chocolate egg that was a bit more ordinary.

 

Like the larger one, it had crustaceans, fish and turtles nestling inside...

 

Obviously, while I was there I couldn't not look and see what was next door in the Sadaharu Aoki boutique. Another classic, which appeared to come with chocorons inside. I did not succumb to this temptation though...

 

 

Last year's seasonal egg at J-P Hevin was even more bizarre. I wrote it up here…

 

Happy Easter to one and all!

memories of Easter in Tokyo Midtown

 

Easter is way past now. But these eggs are far too good to forget in a hurry.

As spotted at the Jean-Paul Hévin boutique in Tokyo Midtown (and mentioned in my recent Sweet Inspirations column in The Japan Times)…

 

They're all chocolate, of course, down to the wonky stitched-up smile and those sad sunny-side-up eyes.

 

And so are the contents: fish, shrimp and turtles in milk and dark chocolate.

What does it all mean? Who knows, but hopefully they'll be back next year to brighten up our lives — and lend some Lent temptation.