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.
Traditional coffee shop egg sandwich; often toasted, sometimes with more generous filling than konbini.
Naporitan pasta served with bread or as sandwich; yoshoku kissaten standard.
Coffee shop mixed sandwich set; usually egg, ham, cucumber, served on a plate.
Coffee shop katsu sando; often more homestyle than specialty shops.
Toasted/pressed sandwich from coffee shop; often ham and cheese.
Katsu sando-flavored ice cream or ice cream shaped like katsu sando; novelty item.
Tonkatsu with curry sauce in a roll; combines two favorites.
Deep-fried bread filled with Japanese curry; crispy outside, saucy curry inside; Japanese bakery icon.
Gourmet curry pan with premium curry filling, specialty bakeries.
Curry pan with keema (minced meat) curry filling.
Curry pan with whole boiled egg inside; surprising center.
Curry pan with melted cheese inside.
Japanese fried chicken (karaage—soy-ginger marinated, potato starch coated) on shokupan with mayo and cabbage.
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.
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.
Fruit jam (ichigo/strawberry most common) on shokupan; simple sweet sandwich.
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.
Sandwiches designed for visual impact on social media; elaborate cross-sections.
Strawberry and whipped cream sando; the most popular fruit sando, strawberries arranged to show perfect cross-sections when cut.
Using Tochiotome strawberries from Tochigi; balanced sweetness and acidity.
One Skyberry, a strawberry bred in Tochigi to grow large enough to fill a slice on its own, laid in cold cream on crustless shokupan so the cut shows a single red heart, not a mosaic.
Built on amaō, the large Fukuoka strawberry registered in 2005: one big berry halved down its core fills the face, dark red against pale cream, sold by the cultivar name.
Ice cream sandwiched in bread or cookie; various forms.
Luxury hotel sandwiches; afternoon tea service, room service.