Danielle- The Bakery

The Bakery

One of the most dangerous places in Japan: The Bakery. D8 *Dun dun DUUUN*

Seriously, I’ve been doing my best to getting used to transportation out here. Not driving and instead, taking the train and walking. But walking means window shopping which means walking past bakeries, or in my case, it means walking INTO bakeries. Which is incredibly dangerous for my wallet.

My host mama introduced me to a bakery in Yachiyo called "SunBretta", and it's cool because they also serve you free coffee or tea if you buy their bread. When I have time on my hands and have a hankering to go buy some bread at a cute local shop, I walk from my home to SunBretta to get those cravings satisfied. :)

In case you can’t tell, I love bread. And I love trying new things. For this blog post, I thought I’d show you my latest baked favorites.

Creme Pan (Pan = bread)

Anpan (Anko = red bean paste)

Chocopan (as close to a pain au chocolat I can get out here)

Pizza (though it tastes nothing like the pizza back in the States)

and Melon Pan

Before coming to Japan, I’d only seen this at a handful of Asian supermarkets out by Chicago. Back then, I never actually tried melon pan before; I’d always went for the fruit pastries, personally. But I had to give it a shot. And that was a bad move, because I’m now hooked. It’s sooo good.

Because I was curious, I looked up how it was made. Here’s a pretty cool link I found on Cookpad (a popular Japanese cooking website):
http://en.cookpad.com/recipe/1154928

By the way, Cookpad has a lot of really great recipes. I tried a recipe for dango and dashi before, and they both turned out well (which says a lot haha)! Even though I had to guesstimate a bit with some of the measuring units like liters, grams, oosaji (large spoon), and kosaji (small spoon).

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