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Indian creator tries Japan's viral 10-layer matcha Mont Blanc

The dessert comes from Chacha Futatsume, a small Asakusa shop in Tokyo with limited seating and long queues; it is a waffle cone, not soft-serve.

Photo: Honio · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN
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Watch it as it aired: Chip Darnell, Vera Bullock and Brock Thunderson on this story, from The Weekend Shift at 1:30 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are NDTV Food's, the jokes are ours.

Photo: Mont Blanc (dessert)
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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWhat a day to be in America!

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNDTV Food reports an Indian creator tried Japan's viral ten-layer matcha Mont Blanc and told viewers, quote, don't be fooled. Vera, your take.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe shop made ten layers and served them as soft-serve in a waffle cone. That's discretion.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorChacha Futatsume isn't hiding ten layers. It's simply declining to comment on them, in a cone.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHOT. Nobody has ever hidden ten layers better.

  6. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistIt's reportedly twelve hundred to sixteen hundred yen, the shop is tiny, and it doesn't typically take reservations.

  7. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo we wait outside a tiny shop, no reservations, to pay around fourteen hundred yen for something dressed as soft-serve. I take that personally.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNOT. Reported prices run twelve hundred to sixteen hundred yen, Brock.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSixteen hundred. Fine.

  10. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHere's my take. Mont Blanc is a French chestnut dessert.

  11. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIf the cone is the disguise, then Melbourne selling it for fourteen ninety Australian is witness protection.

  12. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTen layers, and the review says don't be fooled. By what? It looks like soft-serve.

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