From Nov. 1 throughout the holiday season, the Mandarin Oriental Gourmet Shop at the Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo, is offering 10 Christmas sweets, including three kinds of Buche de Noel, two kinds of Christmas shortcakes and several other seasonal treats. From Dec. 1, the hotel is also offering a Japanese New Year osechi ryori, or traditional food eaten at around the new year, and a spa osechi gift box.

The Orange and Chocolate Buche de Noel comes with chocolate cream made of homemade orange marmalade and 65 percent cacao Belgium bitter chocolate, and comes in two sizes, with a small priced at ¥850 and a large at ¥5,600. Two other kinds of Buche de Noel are maple and pear (small: ¥750, large: ¥4,800) and raspberry and pistachio (small: ¥850, large: ¥5,200), while the Christmas shortcake comes in two sizes: 12 and 15 centimeters in diameter and priced at ¥4,600 and ¥5,600 respectively. Moreover, a two-tier shortcake with Amaō strawberries is available for ¥20,000.

The osechi ryori (¥18,000) consists of three stacked boxes; two of them filled with Cantonese dishes and the third featuring marinated shrimp and roast sirloin.