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Originally Posted by Sunred

Goes well with a piping hot cup of traditional green tea, preferably plain old matcha. However, any other regular green tea will do IMO.

After work today I went on a magical journey to the bakery.



Technically speaking, this may have been a Korean-style sweet red bean bread, since there are a lot of Korean immigrants in my area and not so many from Japan. Still, any difference from anpan was likely marginal, it had a light yet chewy bread encasing a generous portion of sweet red bean paste. I had matcha making supplies at home, but no actual matcha powder, so I settled on a nice sencha green tea. The slightly bitter vegetal taste made a good contrast with the sweetness of the anpan, very complimentary. I definitely see why anpan is considered such a go-to snack now.

The other bread behind the anpan was a fried bread with a vegetable curry filling by the way. It was a little oily, but I liked it even better than the anpan. Crunchy on the outside and the filling was packed with flavor! I've always liked savory foods more than sweet ones.

...I think I accidentally ate an early dinner between the two, but it was pretty great chowing down on bread and drinking hot tea while it was cold and rainy outside. Wait, wasn't this a Sentai thread at some point?!