Earlier this year in January, there were two pop-up Pokémon Cafés in Tampines and Jurong that served drinks and cakes. The menu for these two set-ups in Singapore weren’t as varied as the 2016 Pokémon Pop-Up Café in Bugis Junction, which served many dishes with Pikachu’s smiling face plastered on it, like omurice and pancakes. Well, good news for fans of Pokémon who miss eating Pika grub and happen to be travelling to Japan this December — the Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo retail store will be opening a new F&B concept there called Pikachu Sweets by Pokémon Café.

Instead of the usual dine-in Pokémon Café like the outlet located near Tokyo Station, Pikachu Sweets by Pokémon Café will be a smaller set-up focused on selling adorable and totally Instagramable takeaway desserts and beverages. Check out how pretty the store will look — it’s slated to open on December 19.

According to the Pokémon Café website, there will be lots of brand new Pikachu-themed dessert items to look out for, but they’ve only revealed part of the menu. Don’t expect typical tacky themed character food. Instead, based on preview photos on the site — the treats look rather minimalist chic, but still cute of course. And all will feature “different evolutions of Pikachu”. So there’ll be a faceless Pikachu cupcake, complete with swirly yellow frosting and fun Pikachu ears. Also available is a baumkuchen layer cake with classy pastel-coloured, whimsical Pikachu, Raichu, and Pichu designs on top. For the uninitiated, baumkuchen is a German spit cake which translates to ‘tree cake’ in English due to it resemblance to tree rings when sliced (think angmoh kueh lapis). Lastly, end your sugar high with a caffe latte that comes frothed with “a random design of Pikachu foam art”.

The Pikachu Sweets by Pokémon Café will open on Dec 19, 2019 at Pokemon Center Mega Tokyo, Sunshine City Alpa 2F, 3-1-2 Higashiikebukuro, Toshima City, Tokyo 170-0013. https://www.pokemoncenter-online.com/cafe/