Roast Pork Sando (ローストポークサンド)
Sliced roast pork (chashu-style or Western) on shokupan.
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Roast Beef Sando (ローストビーフサンド)
Thin-sliced roast beef on shokupan, often with horseradish mayo or gravy; department store/deli item.
Roast Beef Sando - Wagyu (和牛ローストビーフサンド)
Roast beef using wagyu; more marbled, tender.
Rice Burger (ライスバーガー)
Grilled compressed rice 'buns' with filling (usually teriyaki meat or shrimp); MOS Burger popularized.
Rice Burger - Yakiniku (焼肉ライスバーガー)
Rice burger with yakiniku beef filling.
Rice Burger - Shrimp (海老ライスバーガー)
Rice burger with tempura or grilled shrimp.
Rice Burger - Kinpira (きんぴらライスバーガー)
Rice burger with kinpira gobo filling; vegetarian.
Rice Burger - Chicken (チキンライスバーガー)
Rice burger with chicken filling.
Rice Bread Sando (米粉パンサンド)
Sandwich on rice flour bread; gluten-free alternative.
Reuben Sando (ルーベンサンド)
American Reuben sandwich at specialty shops; pastrami, sauerkraut, Swiss.
Raisin Butter Sando (レーズンバターサンド)
Japan's raisin butter sando sets cold whipped butter cream and rum-soaked raisins between trimmed shokupan. The flavor traces from a bar snack to Rokkatei's 1977 Marusei cookie.
Potato Salad Sando (ポテトサラダサンド)
Japanese potato salad (with cucumber, carrot, ham, Kewpie mayo) on shokupan; popular at bakeries.
Po'Boy (ポーボーイ)
The New Orleans po'boy is built on a loaf that exists nowhere else: Leidenheimer's thin-shatter crust, airy crumb, made to carry fried shrimp, oyster, or roast-beef debris.
Pizza Toast (ピザトースト)
Pizza toast was 1964 Tokyo's answer to pizza it could not afford: a thick slab of shokupan under ketchup and melted cheese, browned in a toaster oven, the permanent furniture of the kissaten.
Piroshki (ピロシキ)
A Russian baked bun that Japan re-engineered into a fried one. Ground pork and onion in soft enriched dough, often bound with glass noodles to hold the juices, sold warm from the bakery case.
Philly Cheesesteak (フィリーチーズステーキ)
American Philly cheesesteak at specialty shops.
Persimmon Sando (柿サンド)
Japanese persimmon (kaki) and cream; autumn specialty.
Peanut Butter Sando (ピーナッツバターサンド)
Peanut butter (often sweeter than Western) on shokupan; Skippy brand popular.
Peach Sando (桃サンド)
White peach (hakuto) and whipped cream; delicate, perfumed, seasonal summer fruit.
Peach Sando - Okayama (岡山白桃サンド)
A fruit sando built on Okayama's prized white peach, the Shimizu Hakuto, whose short tree-bagged season and gift-fruit economics, not the cream or the bread, decide it.
Pan Matsuri (パン祭り)
Bread festivals featuring sandwich competitions and specialty items.
Orange Sando (オレンジサンド)
The orange sando is the fruit sando built around water: citrus sheds far more loose juice than a berry, so the build is a fight to keep it out of the cream, riding Japan's mikan-to-dekopon calendar.
Onsen Tamago Sando (温泉たまごサンド)
A whole onsen tamago, the hot-spring egg, its white set to loose custard and its yolk left liquid, seated on a cradle of egg salad so the gold runs but does not flood the milk bread.