“Shoku-pan” (食パン） is Japanese milk bread loaf, known for its milky-sweet taste and softness and fluffiness, and stays moist inside. And its outside is the golden brown crust like the above photo. A pack of Shoku-pan is sold in grocery shops of Japan, each pack has around 4 to 6 slices. Each slice is around 3/4 inch thick. You can also chose the pack of thinner slices. Shoku-pan is eaten as is, and used as a basement of each “Japanese Sandwich”.
How cook “Shoku-pan” as is?
Butter on a Shoku-pan
Most popular way to eat it is to toast and put something spread such as butter, strawberry jam, of course Nuttella on it. Another way to eat is to create original “Japanese sandwich” shown as follows.
Variety of Sandwich!!
As seen in the above photo, “Japanese sandwiches”, which are covered by “Shoku-pan” outside, are beautiful as they look, and good handy food, “grab-and-go”. There are many kind of Japanese Sandwiches in Japan, from the convenience store’s “Egg sandwiches” to the epic “Wanpaku sandwich” as seen below. These sandwiches are no doubt one of the best handy and easy foods, especially for breakfast, lunch and snack.
You’d like to know more information about “Convenience store”, see the below!!
Egg Sandwich (“Tamago-sando”) is a popular Japanese egg salad sandwich that is a rich, buttery filling and has to be the simplest. There are no extra ingredients, but just mashed boiled eggs tucked in between ultra soft white bread (Shoku-pan). The point is that you should use Japanese Mayo (Kewpie Japanese mayonnaise is different from American style mayonnaise because it’s got an eggier flavor, it’s slightly sweeter) and quality eggs.
Katsu sandwich
Katsu sandwich
Crispy juicy pork cutlets, which is deep frying with bread crumbs (Panko), were sandwiched with Ton Katsu sauce (moderately thick sauce) between shredded cabbage and Shoku pan.
Fruit sandwich
Fruit Sandwich
Fruit sandwich is very popular in Japan, which consists of juicy seasonal fruits and chilled whipped cream between two slices of soft white bread (Shoku pan).
First of all, the word “Wanpaku” in Japanese is often used to describe an energetic and mischievous or a cheeky person, especially a kid. Compared to other kinds of sandwich, the biggest difference is very unique type of sandwich stuffed with colorful vegetables and layering ingredients, so you need a big bite. You can use up any leftovers from the refrigerator, these solid Japanese sandwiches present endless possibilities!!
In addition, this is so Instagram worthy, you can get many likes on SNS.
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