Speaking of bread
In Japan there are all sorts of weird bread you can’t find anywhere else or at least not in Sweden. For starters, I’ve never eaten that many types of bread that are offered here in Japan. The only bread types I’ve eaten which are special are curry pan (pan = bread in Japanese… It’s actually a borrowed word from Portugal or something though but who cares), melon pan and anpan.
Curry pan is what you could imagine before I mention it, is bread with curry in it. The outside is a bit fried I think to get a crunchier consistence to it and the curry adds more of a “food” feeling to it. It’s very good but I haven’t had one of those in a long time.
Melon pan is melon bread or at least they want you to think that it is. It doesn’t taste much of melon though and there are usually two sorts of them. One without cream and one with cream and the one with cream is the best. The taste is anything but melon, but it’s still a sweet type of bread with sugar and other things in it. I’m guessing not so healthy things.
The anpan is also sweet bread but this has anko (azuki) inside of it which is a sweet red bean paste. My mom loves this one and so do I. There’s a white version instead of the red one as well and it taste somewhat different but I can’t explain how. It’s sweet nonetheless.
So why this topic about bread? I’ve decided to make this topic because I’m going to try out some different types of bread before I go home. The other day I bought melon pan and its brother koucha melon pan (western tea melon bread). Don’t ask me why it was called koucha, because it didn’t taste much like it. It had some sort of black things in it, but I’m not sure if it was tea or not. It also had some sort of fruit in it. I don’t think it was any sort of melon though.
In any case, the koucha melon pan was alright, but I would’ve bought two of the usual melon pan if I knew that it wasn’t so special. Here’s how they look. Melon pan being the closest one and the Koucha version in the back.
Tomorrow I’ve decided to buy something else! They have so much to choose between that it’s almost exciting. It’s not too expensive either. One of these usually cost like 150 yen which would be like 11 Swedish Kronor. I don’t mind paying some money for the new experience!
It’s only 2 weeks and 6 days to go before I go home. Once I get back from Kansai this weekend I need to take care of some stuff. It’s sad, but also a reality that has to be faced.
Curry pan is what you could imagine before I mention it, is bread with curry in it. The outside is a bit fried I think to get a crunchier consistence to it and the curry adds more of a “food” feeling to it. It’s very good but I haven’t had one of those in a long time.
Melon pan is melon bread or at least they want you to think that it is. It doesn’t taste much of melon though and there are usually two sorts of them. One without cream and one with cream and the one with cream is the best. The taste is anything but melon, but it’s still a sweet type of bread with sugar and other things in it. I’m guessing not so healthy things.
The anpan is also sweet bread but this has anko (azuki) inside of it which is a sweet red bean paste. My mom loves this one and so do I. There’s a white version instead of the red one as well and it taste somewhat different but I can’t explain how. It’s sweet nonetheless.
So why this topic about bread? I’ve decided to make this topic because I’m going to try out some different types of bread before I go home. The other day I bought melon pan and its brother koucha melon pan (western tea melon bread). Don’t ask me why it was called koucha, because it didn’t taste much like it. It had some sort of black things in it, but I’m not sure if it was tea or not. It also had some sort of fruit in it. I don’t think it was any sort of melon though.
In any case, the koucha melon pan was alright, but I would’ve bought two of the usual melon pan if I knew that it wasn’t so special. Here’s how they look. Melon pan being the closest one and the Koucha version in the back.
Tomorrow I’ve decided to buy something else! They have so much to choose between that it’s almost exciting. It’s not too expensive either. One of these usually cost like 150 yen which would be like 11 Swedish Kronor. I don’t mind paying some money for the new experience!
It’s only 2 weeks and 6 days to go before I go home. Once I get back from Kansai this weekend I need to take care of some stuff. It’s sad, but also a reality that has to be faced.
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