Also known as Melon Bread.
I'm sure you've seen it.
I've seen this maaaaany times throughout my anime/manga/J-Drama experiences.. but i never actually tried some..
UNTIL TODAY :DDDDDD
Had the chance to check out the local japanese market today and got my hands on some ^~^
^^pic is a bit blurry cuz i was in the passenger seat of the car driving home..
but yeah. you get the point.
IT'S MERON PAN!
Here's a brief history of the wonderful MelonPan taken from Wikipedia:
Melonpan (メロンパン meronpan), also known as Melon pan, Melon buns or Melon bread, are sweet bakery products from Japan, but also popular in Taiwan and China. They are made from an enriched dough covered in a thin layer of crisp cookie dough. Their appearance resembles a melon, such as a rock melon (cantaloupe). They are not traditionally melon flavored, but in recent times it has become popular for manufacturers to add melon to melon bread. Variations exist, including some with a few chocolate chips between the cookie layer and the enriched dough layer, and non-melon versions flavored with caramel, maple syrup, chocolate, or other flavors, sometimes with syrup, whipped or flavored cream, or custard as a filling. In the case of such variations, the name may drop the word "melon" ("maple pan") or may keep it despite the lack of melon flavor ("chocolate melon pan").
The name has a bilingual etymology, since melon is a loan word from English, while pan is from the Portuguese word for bread.
In parts of the Kinki, Chuugoku, and Shikoku regions a variation with a radiating line pattern is called "sunrise", and many residents of these regions call even the cross-hatched melon pan "sunrise".
I have to say, i wasn't quite sure what to expect from the almighty MelonPan when eating it. was half expecting to be teleported straight to japan ^^;
but nope... it was good though T~T
An example of MelonPan in Otaku terms below:
WHY THANK YOU, AYATSUJI-SAN!
*noms*
<3
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