Beard Papa's Green Tea Creampuff

I might be the last person in San Francisco to have tried a Beard Papa creampuff.
Beard Papa is a Japanese brand of French creampuff (ah, globalization!) that landed first in Manhattan and is spreading to major and minor cities via franchises. Luckily, though we are a minor city, we have some Beard Papas here in San Francisco.

The creampuffs come filled with either vanilla custard, chocolate, or a rotating special flavor, like green tea custard or coffee custard. They also come as an éclair; the éclair is the vanilla creampuff topped with chocolate. The outer shell of the creampuff is crisp and flaky and the inner shell is sort of soft and chewy, and the custard is delicious and not super-sweet. After having my first one, I now realize what all the fuss is about.

But I still think that if you're going to consume some egg-filled, high-cholesterol custard-y dessert it should be crème brûlée!