Tokyo’s Pokémon Cafe Reveals Lugia & Ho-Oh Food Dishes

23.June.2019 | ANIME&GAME / FOOD / SPOT

The Pokémon Cafe in Nihonbashi, Tokyo has revealed that it will serve up Lugia and Ho-Oh inspired dishes from July 20 to September 6. The two Legendary Pokémon feature in the Pokémon Gold & Silver video game released for the GameBoy in 1991.

Lugia & Whirl Islands Shaved Ice Dessert Plate: ¥1,922 (Tax Included)

If you’re a Pokémon Silver fan you can expect to enjoy this Lugia cake which comes served with lemon flavoured shaved ice which has been made to look like the Whirl Islands where Lugia resides.

Ho-Oh & Rainbow Wing Ice Cream Dessert Plate: ¥1,922 (Tax Included)

Those who owned Pokémon Gold will be throwing their Poké Balls at the Ho-Oh cake and ice cream that looks like the Rainbow Wing, a legendary artifact associated with Ho-Oh.

 

© 2019 Pokémon.©1995-2019 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.

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