The Japanese Hot Dog (ホットドッグ) is a light meal featuring a split roll filled with a crispy coarsely ground pork sausage and curry-flavored sautéed cabbage, topped with ketchup and mustard. This American classic has been thoroughly adapted over the decades to suit Japanese tastes.
Crispy Shokupan Crusts are fried bread crusts coated with sugar. They are not the healthiest, but they’re a cheap and delicious homemade snack. Many of us make sandwiches at home and cut off the crusts from the bread and throw them away. Next time you make sandwiches, save those crusts! Simply deep-fry the bread until…
Bread may not be a traditional Japanese food like rice, but it has been an important part of the Japanese food culture for decades. More people eat bread than rice for breakfast, and there are many bakeries that specialize in Japanese-style fluffy bread or European-style artisan bread everywhere in Japan. Bakeries are usually inside or…
Melon Pan Toast tastes just like Melon Pan, but it’s so much easier to make it with only 5 simple ingredients. Melon Pan (メãƒãƒ³ãƒ‘ン) is a popular Japanese sweet bread, and it’s found everywhere in Japan from bakeries to convenience stores. Soft white Japanese milk bread is covered with a thin cookie crust on top,…
Ham Roll is a typical Japanese savory bread roll that can be found at many local bakeries in Japan. Thinly sliced ham is interestingly rolled into bread dough and baked, and it shows a nice swirl pattern in the end product. Ham Rolls may look a little complicated but they are actually quite simple to…
Typical Japanese Bread is a soft white bread used to make many kinds of Kashi Pan (sweet bread) such as An Pan and Melon Pan. Japanese people love the softness in bread so much that it’s almost fanatical. There are more rustic crusty breads around and they like those kinds too, however, they always go back to…