The Little One — Restaurant in New York

Pleasant, minimalist and simple decor and very nice desserts! The decor is reminescent of Muji with the light wood and white walls, natural feel. Very clean cut. Reasonably priced, especially for the quality of desserts you get. The ice cream monaka and dorayaki were between $4.50-$5.50 if I recall correctly, and kakigori (Japanese shaved ice) was ~$7.00. All the desserts have a more subtle sweetness level; do not come here if you are expecting a very decadent dessert. These desserts are much more delicate and very refined. I had the pleasure of trying the following: Corn Ice Cream Monaka with Like Zest, Parsnip Ice Cream Monaka with Chocolate and Burnt Honey Caramel, the Apple Dorayaki which features marscapone cream and apple confit as well as apple slices, and the Sweet Potato Dorayaki. I also had the malted spiced hot chocolate! Everything was very good; my favorite was the Apple Dorayaki by far. It had a great balance and variety of textures. The corn monaka was more settle but had a lovely texture, the wafer was perfect. I enjoyed the Parsnip monaka as well but wasn't a fan of the chocolate; I personally don't like chocolate with ice cream as it makes the chocolate cold and harder to taste. But the flavor of the Parsnip ice cream was delightful. The sweet potato dorayaki did not have as much textural variety as the Apple Dorayaki but was still tasty. I liked the spiced hot chocolate a lot; it was reminiscent of a chai latte. You can tell that they use high quality ingredients in their food and that a lot of thought has been put into these desserts. The part I appreciated the most was how varied and different the selection was here - no generic flavors or flavor profiles so it was nice to see new things! My friend and I actually had gotten one round of desserts at first and then decided to try even more desserts because we were so intrigued. Overall I really enjoyed coming here and definitely want to come back! I have already recommended it to a...

So we have 6 people in our family, the procedure is ordered first so we do that before sat down. And then we ask for a restroom, he told us to go the park next door or cafe across (that you need to buy to borrow the restroom).

Four of us sit in this little one cafe and other two check the restroom in the park (which was locked), the cafe was small and table only fit for 3 people each table. Because there’s six of us, of course we take two tables, and they didn’t let us. 🙂 They told us rudely to not take two tables. We ordered 2 kakigori, one drink and one menu of mochi. Maybe they thought we didn’t ordered enough to keep 2 tables. But it’s dessert, and we want to share. Had we known better we will just leave and not ordered anything.

In the end we told our other family to just sit at the cafe across the street and take turn to eat the dessert.

Overall the food was not bad, the service left a bad feeling though. 👋🏻 This is gonna be one of my bad story about new york to my folks...

Cute little dessert shop on the outskirts of Chinatown bordering the LES. It's a very long and narrow space but still has some seating to bring a friend or two, definitely don't bring a large group. Their desserts look simple but use very unique ingredients to add some pizazz to some of the traditional Japanese staples like the dorayaki and kakigori. Although I wasn't particularly a fan of the coconut kakigori despite the presentation looking beautiful, I was really there for their monaka ice cream sandwiches anyway. I really enjoyed the corn ice cream sandwich. It was subtle in its sweetness and had the perfect balance with the toasted coconut and lime zest. The "sandwich" part is made of rice flour so it had a bit of a slightly chewy and crunchy texture at the same time but I think it still went well with the ice cream. Can't wait to try out their other flavors when it...