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Egg Salad Sando at Konbini Club

Egg salad (whole eggs, kewpie mayo, salt, whole milk, sugar) on japanese milk bread. Sandwich Score 49, rough. At Konbini Club, Cupertino.

A sandwich at Konbini Club, a restaurant in Cupertino, California.

Shokupan (Japanese…Whipped CreamEgg SaladShokupan (Japanese…
49
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +32.

Leans toward a tamago sando, three of six roles on the board.

Holding the summit: real textural contrast

Balance
66
Harmony
92
Contrast
13
Structure
68
Focus
100
Composition
59
Quality
100
Envelope
97

More sweet than 90% of the catalog.

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

japanese milk bread, served cold: egg salad (whole eggs, kewpie mayo, salt, whole milk, sugar) (named producer); whipped cream.

In italics: what the name implies and the menu does not list.

Worth a look: named producer: Egg Salad.

Balance

salt0.8 · 46thacid0.4 · 43rdfat3.0 · 79thsweet1.2 · 90thumami0.8 · 24thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.846th
acid0.443rd
fat3.079th
sweet1.290th
umami0.824th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

66 Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

What each layer brings

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
japanese milk breadscored as Shokupan (Japanese milk bread)breadsweet 2 soft springythe frame
egg salad (whole eggs, kewpie mayo, salt, whole milk, sugar) (named producer)scored as Egg Saladproteinfat 3 salt 2 umami 2 creamy soft+4
whipped creamsaucefat 4 sweet 2 creamy silky fluffy+1

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

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