Saturday, October 29, 2011

Crazy for em Ottocakes.

About five years ago, my boss told me about a particular cheesecake that was offered by a worker named Otto at the restaurant of The Academy of Arts.  I didn't think too much of it until I tried my first piece of "Ottocake" during a lunch at a museum in Makiki.  It was very flavorful and clean.  Cheesecake was definitely worth the price of admission.  A year ago, I had my second slice of Ottocake at a joint co-worker's baby shower.  The cheesecake was phenomenal.  Simply "Amazing plain".  I was told there were many Ottocake flavors including red velvet.  Red Velvet cheesecake????  I was sold!  I had to get this red velvet flavored cheesecake.  I walked into Ottocake on Smith Street in Chinatown weeks later.  I thought what a cute little place.  There was one of those bakery type displays with various cheesecakes being sold by the slice.  The cash register was a vintage ring em up type register.  Prices of cheesecake, beverages, and other baked goods were written on a small chalkboard.  A friendly skinny Caucasian gentlemen, greeted me with an Aloha, welcome to Ottocake, How may I help you?  Looking through the glass.  No, RED VELVET!  I settled on raspberry cheesecake.  It was Ono.  SOOOO GOOD.  I was hooked.  After a year of regular weekly visits the list of cheesecake flavors tried includes: lemon, banana foster, peanut butter cup, raspberry, blackberry, strawberry, key lime, cookies and cream, kilamanjaro, amazing plain, chocolate, chocolate caramel, lehua honey, pumpkin, chocolate raspberry, chocolate chocolate chip, red velvet, blue velvet, mango, white chocolate strawberry. chocolate haupia, tiramisu, mocha, root beer float, german chocolate, lilikoi, blueberry, dark chocolate cherry, strawberry basil, orange chocolate chip, mojito, peanut butter nutella, and green tea,

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