Konbini Dessert Sando (コンビニデザートサンド)
Sweet dessert sandwiches at konbini; various cream and fruit combinations.
Andrew Lekashman
Komatsuna Sando (小松菜サンド)
Sandwich featuring komatsuna (Japanese mustard spinach); Tokyo regional vegetable.
Kiwi Sando (キウイサンド)
Kiwi fruit and whipped cream; green and gold varieties.
Kissaten Tamago Sando (喫茶店たまごサンド)
Traditional coffee shop egg sandwich; often toasted, sometimes with more generous filling than konbini.
Kissaten Napolitan Set (喫茶店ナポリタンセット)
Naporitan pasta served with bread or as sandwich; yoshoku kissaten standard.
Kissaten Mixed Sando (喫茶店ミックスサンド)
Coffee shop mixed sandwich set; usually egg, ham, cucumber, served on a plate.
Kissaten Katsu Sando (喫茶店カツサンド)
Coffee shop katsu sando; often more homestyle than specialty shops.
Kissaten Hot Sando (喫茶店ホットサンド)
Toasted/pressed sandwich from coffee shop; often ham and cheese.
Katsu Sando Ice (カツサンドアイス)
Ice cream dressed as a katsu sando: wafer for shokupan, a darker band for the cutlet, a caramel stripe for the sauce, built on Japan's monaka ice sandwich and racing its own melt.
Katsu Curry Pan (カツカレーパン)
Tonkatsu with curry sauce in a roll; combines two favorites.
Kare Pan (カレーパン)
A coarse fried shell that shatters over a soft crumb and a set pocket of dark Japanese curry. The seam has to survive hot oil, and the curry has to refuse to run.
Kare Pan - Premium (極上カレーパン)
Gourmet curry pan with premium curry filling, specialty bakeries.
Kare Pan - Keema (キーマカレーパン)
Curry pan with keema (minced meat) curry filling.
Kare Pan - Egg (たまご入りカレーパン)
Curry pan with whole boiled egg inside; surprising center.
Kare Pan - Cheese (チーズカレーパン)
Curry pan with melted cheese inside.
Karaage Sando (唐揚げサンド)
Japanese fried chicken (karaage—soy-ginger marinated, potato starch coated) on shokupan with mayo and cabbage.
Kani Cream Korokke Sando (カニクリームコロッケサンド)
Bite a hot one and the shell cracks before the filling moves, then a crab-flecked cream that was a firm paste five minutes ago floods out. A sauce wearing a crust.
Kaki Fry Sando (カキフライサンド)
In January the menus change. The oyster comes into its plump cold-water months and the fried-oyster sandwich appears, panko-crumbed oysters and tartar on soft bread, a sandwich on a calendar.
Jam Sando (ジャムサンド)
Fruit jam (ichigo/strawberry most common) on shokupan; simple sweet sandwich.
Ishikawa Noto Beef Sando (能登牛サンド)
A few slices of Noto-ushi, the Noto Peninsula's own Japanese Black wagyu, seared rare or fried as a gyūkatsu cutlet and framed by crustless milk bread, with the bind tuned down to a murmur.
Instagrammable Sando (インスタ映えサンド)
A Japanese sando built backward from its cut face: fruit and fillings placed for the blade, chilled solid, then sliced once. The composition has a name, a history, and a 2017 award.
Ichigo Sando (いちごサンド)
Strawberries and barely sweet cream in crustless milk bread, each berry placed so the knife meets its widest red face. The whole sandwich rises or falls on one near-perfect fruit.
Ichigo Sando - Tochiotome (とちおとめいちごサンド)
Using Tochiotome strawberries from Tochigi; balanced sweetness and acidity.
Ichigo Sando - Skyberry (スカイベリーいちごサンド)
The Skyberry ichigo sando frames a single oversized Tochigi strawberry, solid to its core and cut to show one broad red heart, in stiff cream and thin shokupan.