They brought bread, guns and Christianity.
a nice stick???
You see these breads quite a lot in anime
Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's Cathy Cat.
In 2011 Japanese people were very
shocked and surprised to find out that for the first time ever they spent more
money on bread than on rice. So we are this time gonna find out about the
current trend. I'm also going to introduce some really tasty Japanese
breads to you and we're gonna dive a little bit into the reasons why things
have changed here in Japan so let's go for a very special episode of Ask
Japanese and find out about the rising issue of bread in Japan
Now do you actually know who brought bread first to Japan? I didn't know this
it was Portuguese traders that came over they brought: bread, guns and Christianity
in the times of samurai. Now that didn't go so well especially later ...Japan kind
of locked its country down. It wasn't really that popular. However later Bread
didn't become really popular until the 18th century when a clever person
thought "well we have our beans that we love having, the anko beans ... how about
we put them into bread?" That way it kind of culturally became acceptable to
eat more bread and Anpan was created. One of the most favorite pans and famous
pans here in Japan. Also "pan" comes from the Portuguese as well!
During World War 1 bread was used as a source of vitamin B for the soldiers and after the
war when there were food shortages the kids needed to be fed so it got
introduced into the students or schools lunch as a "syokupan" during lunch time
which still now remains today. But there are many many other types of bread here
like coppepan, melon pan and other type of breads that are very unique to Japan
and we're gonna go and have a look at those now
Nowadays you can get bread in bread stores
Dir: You mean bakery!?
Oh let's do that again...
"Bread Stores!
Nowadays you can get hold of Bread in bakeries but not only that
supermarkets, convenience stores have them they even have their
own types of branded bread that they sell there. And they're even in drugstores!
So now we're trying to find some exciting breads for you guys
Yes? Ready?
They are selling fresh eggs there!
Eeeeggssss
Now we found a supermarket so the director is gonna go and select some
bread for us
PAN!
So what breads from the supermarket did you bring director?
ANPAN!
That's the one we're talking about !
Super long sellers it says actually on the package as well so this
is the anpan and we mentioned that really popularized breads here in Japan.
It's actually a big one sometimes they're smaller that and generally
all the types of breads will also be wrapped similarly, even if you go to a
bakery they're wrapped every bread similarly I know it's a lot of plastic...
but that's just how it is. And let's see how it looks inside
Anton is generally round and on top of it you can see poppy seeds as well well
That one is very... there's KOSHIAN and TSUBUAN. Koshian is just like smooth
bean paste and this one here is TSUBUAN so you can still see bits of the beans there
Japan seems to divide people into Koshian and Tsubuan people
Depending on if you like it more natural or not...
What's up next director? Throw it to me
Here's the most commonly one for the breakfast table and that one is
just Syokupan which is pretty much toast .. very fluffy very light and the
crust is actually very soft too... even people who don't like the crust
generally people here also eat the crust. Y ou can see it has six slices here
generally it goes from two slices up to ten slices but the commonly one is six
slices or eight slices that people enjoy. Apparently this is the directors favorite
one it's called Cho juku = super mature and asked him
what mature stands for he said he don't know.
This is starting to feel like an
unboxing video let's enter the crinkle... unboxing ASMR
So soft.
huh
That was a nice catch... and this one here is a............
A nice stick?!
what?!
mm-hmm of all things this one also had ... another cream filling
Japanese convenience stores are also selling bread and they even have their
own brands. On that note we are here at 7-eleven
We got two breads that are by 7-eleven they're not only sold by them they also have their own brand
Let's pull this one out first what is this one?
Roast chicken, bacon egg and cheese and you can see they even cut the corners
away so it's a corner less, no crust, sandwich. There's always an easy way to open these ones
up on the back ...
wait a second ... oh it's like a three-layered one!
It's like a whopper you know when you have like stuff in between...
you eat three slices of bread with the filling all in one go...
oh wow okay
so here we have a BLT
but in a special way because it's bacon lettuce, tomato but also chicken and
egg and cheese B L T C E C
mmm mmm
it's so soft
and it has like um if you'll see it
maybe you can't see it. It has mayonnaise on and also some spicy pepper seasoning to it
Now you might have... now you might have... now you might have ..
sandwiches is in your country .. but there's one sandwich you need to try here
Very much Japan only and it's the yakisoba pan
so it's pretty much carbs with carbs... it's a bread that contains noodles like yakisoba noodles
Unidentified flying object sauce great to have that... it actually says under unidentified
flying object
You see these breads quite a lot in animes also quite a lot of
schoolkids have these ones because they're so flavorsome they're so tasty
I used to eat quite a lot of those in school when I was at school here in Japan
so yes
Oh ho damn good
Would you like to have some carbs with your carbs?
Since we're driving around right now I'm gonna review the next kind of breads
that I found in a kind of selfie mode so here we go...
these are the breads we found and they're actually from a bakery that was
inside a supermarket. Bread we have we have melon bread which is one of the
most popular ones. This one actually looks a bit more like melon it doesn't
have the crosses like bread with the cookie on top
whoosh then we have this one here that contains usually a sausage or like bacon
bacon and cheese that looks tasty - Bacon Epi
How much is that? - 198 yen
Onion Bacon Cheese. - Navi: There is a 700m traffic jam ahead
There's the famous the curry pan.. and then over here is a big loaf
you can see that he was freshly made ..its kind of sweating a little bit now it's cooled down...
So you can make your own honey toast at home because it's not
sliced at all...
oh it looks tasty...
This one is is recently one of my favorite things that I get really so tasty
There's so much bacon filling in this one look! It's all the way in there ...
next one up is another of Japan's favorite breads is the curry bread as it says it
actually has a curry filling inside also the outside is generally crunchy because
they kind of deep fry it. It's a bit like a savory doughnut in a way if it's very
fresh it should crunch
now as you can see with most of these breads you can eat them as is ...meaning
they are there to be quick meal... may it mean be breakfast maybe lunch without
you having to use any Forks or knives without using any spreads or anything
Apart from the syokupan the normal toast everything else is already
combined in one thing so it's quick it's convenient and it's tasty so
different from Europe where we generally tend to put butter and spreads and salads and
salami and whatever on our sandwiches... it is generally here it is like once
you buy bread you eat it as is with everything inside... that's why they have
lots of creamy fillings and like flavor fillings curry fillings all this kind of
thing. It's one meal!
I hope they're ok.
Next one last but not least one of my absolute favorites is the melon pan
called melon bread. This one actually smells really sugary as well it has
might have a bit of melon but generally has nothing to do with melon
it usually has a crisscross pattern on top on the cookie top that kind of looks
like a melon. That's why it's called melon bread but this one here is slightly
different but that's the one they had in store. Smells so good.
It usually doesn't have the cream filling so this is like a
deluxe melon bread. As you can see this is the bread but actually this is the
cookie layer. If you turn it round like this you can see bread and on top
of it is a layer of cookie crust
Good choice director ...good choice
A traditional Japanese meal usually consists out of miso soup, three
different items and rice. Now that takes a lot of time to prepare so many
Japanese people right now for convenience are selecting bread because
it's all a meal in just one bite.
This the only type of bread that Japanese
people actually have with toppings but this one you can also make your own
honey toast meaning a big chunk, leave some space add some ice cream add some honey
all these kind of tasty things.. so that's the Japanese way of Shokupan. Since
we don't in Japan have such a long history of bread being used as a staple,
Japanese people have been very creative and due to that invented some new types of bread
Those were a couple of facts about breads here in Japan. What would you like
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