Japanese taste in bakery

There may be many kinds of bread in your country, but bread or bun in Japan is unique - it's like a collaboration between Japanese taste and Western one.

For example, Japanese enjoy 'ann-pan' , sweet red bean paste in a bun. Here is the inside of the bun.
You'll find the pink topping; it's a pickled cherry blossom. Ann-pan is one of the Japanese favorite, so we have different kind of sweet bean paste buns.

Also, we have 'yakisoba-pan', fried noodle with bread roll, sweet potato bread, and sometimes we find a rice ball in a bun!! Each bakery in Japan tries to create new combination, so it's fun to go rounds of them.

Of course familiar rolls like crescent and muffins are available. Why don't you come to a Japanese bakery to find your own treasure?



Right photo: (from back; left is "yakisoba-pan", right is green bean paste bun front; left is "ann-pan", right is custard cream bun)