Wiener Pan (ウインナーパン)
Soft roll wrapped around a wiener sausage; ketchup and mustard.
Soft roll wrapped around a wiener sausage; ketchup and mustard.
In the savoury bun case, between curry pan and the yakisoba roll, sits tantanmen's spicy sesame-pork sauce, the noodles and broth left in the kitchen. A bakery's newest experiment in a long habit.
Takoyaki (octopus balls) in bread; Osaka street food fusion.
A coil of napolitan, Japan's ketchup-red spaghetti, packed into a split koppepan. Carbs on carbs by design, the bakery's way of carrying the country's favorite homegrown pasta out in one hand.
Sausage baked inside bread dough; spiral or straight.
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.
Ketchup-stir-fried spaghetti, the kissaten plate called naporitan, pressed flat between two slices of soft Japanese milk bread. A Showa-era cafe favorite, folded into a sandwich.
Naporitan pasta served with bread or as sandwich; yoshoku kissaten standard.
Japanese hot dog; often sweeter roll, various toppings, sometimes uses arabiki (coarse) sausage.
Japan's yōshoku hambāgu, a loose beef-and-pork patty in dark demi-glace, lifted off the dinner plate onto thick shokupan, with butter and cabbage barriering the soft bread from the wet sauce.
The demi-glace version of the Japanese hamburg sando, where a dark eight-day brown sauce of red wine and stock leads the bite and threatens the crumb, a kissaten plate folded into thick-cut toast.
The cheese hamburg sando turns on which slice you choose, and one of them, the torokeru melting slice, only exists because Snow Brand engineered a stretch into cheese in 1987.
A hambāgu, the Japanese hamburger steak of ground beef and pork bound with onion and a panko panade, sauced with dark demi-glace and tucked into a soft roll for the walk to work.
Someone spoons a hot macaroni gratin from its dish onto bread and hands it over to eat standing up. The gratin sando is a casserole talked into lunch, a fork-and-oven dish made to hold still by hand.
Doria, Japan's baked gratin of buttered rice under béchamel and browned cheese, scooped from its dish into shokupan, where milk bread inherits the bakeware's job of holding it together.
'American Dog'—battered and fried hot dog on a stick; festival food.
Hot dog with cheese; or Korean-influenced cheese-filled corn dog.