This morning I headed up to the 7-11 again for some delicious food. As I've mentioned before, the 7-11's here are extremely fresh and delicious. Take whatever you know about western 7-11's and destroy that knowledge in your head, because the Japan 7-11's are amazing.
I wish I knew what this was called. I searched everywhere online and can't figure out what it is. If anyone knows, please let me know. It's a large bun like thing that seems barely baked. The very outer layer is almost uncooked and then it's bready all the way through without being dense. The bread is lightly sweet. The meat inside was pork and it was flavored with light ginger and a little sugar. The whole thing was served hot. Delicious.
Next, I got this bread corn thing. Let me emphasize that neither of these products were densely bready. It was more of a light and fluffy bread that fell somewhere between a dinner roll and a pastry. This bread wasn't sweet, but had a coating of sweet butter that sometimes tasted like cream cheese and sometimes tasted like butter and then a layer of corn. It was good and would have been good with a meal of noodles.
I hope to get John back up to the 7-11 tonight so we can get more of the first food I ate and some mochi balls dipped in a sweet sauce. I am just so amped about Japanese food right now!
The top two pictures remind me of bbq pork dimsum.... steamed bready bun with porky yum goodness.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's the same thing?
I agree with XJ because my mom buys those all the time at this local market which caters to the Asian/Pacific Islander side of town.
ReplyDeleteYes! ERTW found a wiki page for them and they are very similar to a Chinese dim sum dish. In Japan, they're called nikuman, I think.
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