Shokola Melon Pan

Okay, here's an interesting one.  A Shokola (chocolate?) Melon pan, with the additional flavour of Macha.  That's green tea.  Macha and chocolate is a good mix as the chocolate sweetness counters the bitter flavour of the Macha nicely.

To be honest, this one had me the moment I saw that Macha bowl and mixing spoon on the package.

The outside seals the deal with a good combination, Macha Melon (sugary outside coating), With "Shokora" (Say it with a dodgy French accent ) and whip cream.

Belgian Chocolate Melon Pan

If you have a look at my previous Melon Pan post, it explains there that Melon Pan seems to be the standard way of describing buns with sugar layers on top.  I just said it there too...  How very nice of me!

Today, I am having an eat of the Belgian Chocolate Melon Pan (BCMP), a winter only special.  Let's just ignore the fact that it isn't winter yet.

Strawberry Jam and Whipped Cream - Bread review

Having a soft spot for ye old scones, jam and cream (as well as pike-lets jam and cream), I got a bit over excited and bought this bun hoping for it to be somewhat similar.  After all strawberry jam and cream usually make almost anything taste delightful.

Mocha Cream Melon Pan - Bread Review

Carrying on with my bread reviews, I bring on another.  Here is one for Mocha Cream Melon Pan.

Usually melon pan is a bun with a sweet melon flavoured covering of sugar over the top forming a patchwork of diamonds on the top.  It's delicious, full of excessive calories and is probably very bad for you.

I love it.

I see that recently, Melon pan has become a term for a bun covered with the patchwork diamonds and sugar coating, but it doesn't always have to taste like melon anymore.  This Mocha Cream Melon Pan (hereby referred to as MCMP as I am lazy fingered) had no melon flavouring in it at all.  Which I was relieved about.

Diamond covered bread like this is usually means it's covered in sugar.  You are warned!

Cheese Fondue France - Bread review

パン  It's Japanese for bread. That's why this blog is called Jya-PAN.  Here is the first of my Japanese bread reviews.

Cheese Fondue France

Bathing in Japan

My travels in Japan have taught me one thing.

• When a tall gaijin goes into an onsen hotel, the staff get worried.

Therefore, I aim to educate people into that wonderful thing that is:

Japanese Bathing Culture!

Vocab: 温泉 Onsen [Hot Springs]
　　　外人 Gaijin [impoilite way of saying foreigner]
　　　銭湯 Sentou [public bath (has no volcanic water)]
　　　露天風呂 [open air bath]