The Melon Pan Tradition: Japanese Sweet Bread メロンパン 花月堂
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- ▽▲The Melon Pan Tradition: Japanese Sweet Bread▲▽
"Melonpan" in English is called "" Japanese Sweet Bread". It's the most popular item at Japanese bakeries and available at every convenient store and supermarket all over the country, but in Asakusa, one shop sticks to the traditional taste. It's located right next to Senso-ji Temple, one of Japan's most famous attractions.
It looks like a melon, but does it taste like one?
In this episode, we go to Asakusa Kagetsudo and talk with owner Yuki-san who has been making melonpan for many years. He explains his passion and why it's so popular in Japan. John sits down for breakfast and enjoys a piping hot melonpan with a green melon soda, the shop's recommended combination! Melonpan is best when it's right out of the oven.
This show has been created and produced by John Daub ( ジョン・ドーブ ). He's been living and working in Japan for over 16 years and regularly reports on an International TV Show for Japan's International Channel.
Casting light on quirky, funny & amazing Japanese culture in a way only seen through the eyes of a foreigner! Join us as we penetrate deep into the heart of Japan!
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Teks bahasa Inggris tersedia! English subtitles available! #melon #pan #kagetsudo
It's " Teks bahasa Inggeris disediakan" . Just saying :)
Neko Chan I think he's referring to bahasa Indonesia. In which he is correct.
Oh, sorry...
+ONLY in JAPAN don't worry john, your english is perfect to understand without any sub :). Terimakasih
Yo what the heck haha xD You speak Malay now?
I'm not Mexican or Japanese, but i will say this would be amazing with a cup of coffee!
Joey Estacado hot green Japanese tea!
Did you mean matcha?
It is...
I just baked melon pan from scratch. They came out so soft, warm, and sweet. They were so so good. I'll try to bake anpan next time. It was a humongous challenge but the end result was great and tasty.
This bread maker reminds me of Kazuma Azuma via Yakitate! Japan....I feels it!
Reminds me of a concha! Really good but not too sweet. But I like that about a lot of Mexican sweet bread... They're not over powering with sweetness... I wanna try one of these to compare 😁
Sorry if this is like 2 yrs ago, but haha just saw this now: I've had Concha and it was cake like texture and the Melon Pan had a soft airy bread inside, and had a stronger butter flavor on the crust. Both are great!
We got the concha from the Japanese Melon bread. Had a long debate against my Japanese friend on who made it first. Googled it and we got it from the Japanese!
QuezadaーケサダGenaroーヘナロ it is a french recipe made by french immigrants in mexico.
few years back when aimlessly walking around, I walked by this place and the smell of fresh baked goodness engulfed my nose I had to TRY. It was sooo good, glad I found this place on a whim. I want to go back haha
I like how, when I reminisce and search for best melon pan in japan, this place is the first result. I agree 100%. I've been here twice and it's awesome.
Had this too, at another store in Asakusa. Nice snack for on the go and fairly cheap.
My goodness is that a cute place with love and tradition and fantastic music for pure nostalgia
Am I the only one who remembers this in Yakitate Japan Anime ??
Rhetz Denne i remember shakugan no shana instead of yakitate japan
I heard of this first in Yakitate Japan, but Shakugan no Shana introduce me to this even more.
melon sushi bread
that anime brought me here and currently im watching that episode relating to melon bread
Oh yes! Kazuma Azuma and his awesome delicacies!
Stuffed my face with kombini melon pan when I was there some 7+ years ago... I must've bought like 10 times out of the 22 days me and my family was there. I ate quite a lot of different stuff everyday, but melon pan probably was the one thing I repeated the most. I also tried almost everything I could find different on vending machines... pretty sure things increased in variety quite a lot over the years.
Weirdly enough, the kombini melon pan I bought did have melon flavoring. Came in a green packet that had a melon-like looks to it.
Lightly sweet and with this light melon flavor too, very soft and light, and it had the traditional look to it with the grid like round shape.
We also went to a restaurant that was basically all you can eat bread related stuff. Bakeries in Japan are impressive as hell... I've never seen this much variety of bread recipes in any other country. Not sure if it was a thing of the period since Yakitate!! Japan was still pretty recent, but everywhere we went had bakeries with such a huge variety of stuff that you could spend a month trying different things everyday.
It's quite the different experience from what you hear on a family of migrants that came from Japan to Brazil during WWII. I went with 6 relatives, my mom, and a friend of relatives... unanimously the best vacation to another country we had, out of several other countries we visited individually in the past. I've never been outside the country after that trip basically because I'm saving money to go there again. xD
melon bread of Shana from shakugan no Shana anime
Haha was about to comment that
Yah why i am here haha
Same reason why I'm here xd hahaha
Japanese bread is sooo good.. the best..
i'm marathoning these videos right now. i'm so glad i stumbled across them! i recognized john from tv.
i've been to this place in asakusa, but i didn't have their bread. i had the soft ice cream which is also great. i do love melon pan though. one of my very favourite things to eat when i was there.
i think what the guy said about melon pan being a treat everyone likes is right on, not just for japanese people but foreigners too. a lot of people from western countries don't like the more traditional tastes like red bean. great business decision.
Wow I really want to try these melon bread! It looks so yummy.
This store have moved, it is still close to the Sensoji temple.
I lived in Asakusa for 3-4 months and i almost ate this meron pan every morning, love it.
Come early or it can be sold out.
Saw this in Asakusa and had never heard of it. OMG it was delicious! Best bread I have ever tasted! To bad I did not see this video before we left for our trip to Japan.
Another place I'll check out, thanks John
In China we call it pineapple Bread and we eat it all the time and every Chinese bakery have it its so yummmy😋😋..
Sounds so much better than I imagined! The thought of melon flavoured bread put me off . Now I know there's no melon in there.. I really wanna try it!
love those melon pans need strawberry melon pan , they look like the Mexican Conchas and taste great . wish for flavor Conchas strawberry and chocolate
I love melon bread. I even have a melon bread cat plush.
That melonpan and the green soda looks so refreshing and good!
I've watched Nichijou and when I saw the title, I was just like, "no way, melon bread."
I love Melon Pans!
And...Now I'm hungry...again.
I cannot wait to try one...one of these days!
I thought at first authentic melon pan was a melon filling😂 yakitate japan! series made me believe that😂😂
John I hope if we cross paths in Japan when I visit I can say hello. I am one of your biggest fans and my mom has started watching the show. She said she didn't get to see everything she wanted to but she left with a sense of pride and love for the people and places. Thank you for a being a light and sense of fun to this awesome place. I'm studying to become a teacher and I hope to bring to light the people and places the same way. Keep on making great videos and having a good time but stay hungry...lol.
+Elise McCurdy Thanks Elise! So glad you introduced the show to you mom! I met a family from Australia last week. The whole family watches the show! Made me feel really good to hear that. Always appreciate your comments! -john
I love this show too,I am gng to ask my mom to watch it too.Love Japan and Daub😃
thank you for the video! I've eaten this many times and i have to say, I was confused as to why it was called melonpan. I've had one that had a very slight, pale green tint that DID taste like a watermelon. I just assumed that was why it was called so. Learn something every day.
Love the melon pan with macha ice cream in Dontunburi!
It is very delicious melonpan!
Thanks for the uploads! I really enjoy your videos :D
It's crazy how Japan's culture is a lot like ours, Mexican. The word pan to us means bread, and the melon pan they call looks exactly just like our pan we call concha or conchitas.
+Jorge Abundis I always felt the language is somewhat similar in pronunciation. The vowels are all constant. Recently there is a Mexican food boom in Tokyo. I wonder how much is mexican and how much is American-Mexican though :) Anyway, it's so good! -john
ONLY in JAPAN Very good point I felt the same way too, idk if it has to do with the colonization of Spain. Either way I'm glad we have that and hopefully more in common because I love their culture! That's really good to hear, I wish I could go and see it for myself. I think if I tried the food there I would be able to tell authenticity. Hopefully Mexican I don't like when they half ass (excuse my language)our traditional plates. Ps Love your show, keep up the good work!
I'm going to check this place out when I visit Japan this summer.
Yeah, I always thought they were melon-flavored, too. Will definitely have to give them a try.
We have that in nyc Chinese bakeries. We called Mexican bread. Doesn’t have the melon shape but a sweet and buttery outer layer!
After watching this video I finally know that melon pan is actually not a melon flavor on the inside of the bread after all 😂 wow mind blowing for me actually 🤣 who's with me ? 🙋
melon pan was my fav as a kid, used to get pokemon stickers with them hah
i suddenly miss these melon pans! i went to kagetsudo last Sep 2014 and the line was sooooooo long. but those melon pans are so worth it. I actually craved for it for weeks even after I came back to Manila. unfortunately the melon pans we have here are the 'artificial' kind.
This looked delicious.
EEEEEH~ The Melon pan I buy at Marukai here in California is green. And it has the taste of honeydew melon. It's really good and moist! I would love to have the original some day!
GREAT VIDEO..........
若い人はアンパンが好きじゃない？ぬぁ〜に言ってんだ！大好きだよ！！特にこし餡パンはサイコーだよ
This bread would be very good with a cup of tea or coffee ~
it looks so soft and fluffy omg
This looks so yummy I just want to taste it right now !
I bet John wanted their recipe too ☺️
Just gorgeous..
I always go to that shop everytime I go to Tokyo! Only for the shaved ice though, the shop was always crowded.
It is good with green tea.
I tried melonpan when I went to Japan, but this place looks really good.
Americans likely recognize the similarity of the melon pan to the Mexican concha, this is no coincidence. Both of those originate from the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and were brought over by Europeans during the age of exploration. Just like the Japanese melon pan, the Mexican concha (which means seashell in Spanish) takes its name from the shape of the cuts on top of the bread
Hong Kong's equivalent of the bun is called bolo bao, which literally means pineapple bun even tho there's no pineapple in it.
Melonpan i believe can be traced back to spanish traders, as in spain we got something quite similar which is called suizo. And also the fact that pan is bread in spanish, makes lots of sense.
I always thought there is a melon inside ever since I watched Yakitate Japan
Wow That's nice one ! Love Melon Pan!!
ive been there and ate the bread, you should try their cream cheese pie its GOOOOOOOOD, warm gooey cream cheese in a warm pie crust pouch
I went to Senso-ji, I had Melon Pan and it was so delicious
it was bloody close the day i was there. like renovating and stuff
your happy look on everything just makes me happy idek why :)
Thank you for the video.
メロンパンが大好きです❤️
just like in HK, there is a baked bread called Pineapple Bun, it has a cruchy buttery layer on top of a sweet baked bun. there is no pineapple in it at all.
that looks s good
did anyone else watch @0:16 over and over again at 2X the speed?
Actually in portuguese bread is called pao. (similar to how you pronounce ''pong'' in english). Maybe it was called like that at the time. Always good to learn something new.
in mexico we also have this kind of bread its calld concha
+susan gil what's the taste?
It's very good and its sweet
where can I buy it! amazon,ebay or other
yeah i dont think that you can bye it on internet you could look up the recipie on youtube the bread is calld concha
I tried it from a Mexican bakery. Tasty!
That looks so good.
I have eaten that melon pan in that very same place :D
mouth watering!
Looks like Mexican Pan Dulce. Concha specifically.
If you go to Kure City in Hiroshima, you can see different figure Melon Pan. It looks like half of rugby ball.
I need to try this melon bread
This Melonpan is so good that, it will attract that dog from 'Gabriel Dropout' to eat that melonpan!
This made me hungry! It's 'just' bread (objectively anyways) but man does it ever look delicious, you can *see* the quality of the product and all the effort that went into perfecting it! :)
I regret not stopping when I was there in '07. I wish the tour guide had stopped instead of walking us through and on to other areas!
Yes, the Portuguese were the first to get there and the Japanese know it very well. They introduced firearms, Christianity and tempura to Japan and many Japanese words have Portuguese origins, incl. Arigato (thank you).
Cool i learn about this bread from shakugan no shana it is anime
I want to make THAT melon bread...
But it´s also in Germany/Europe very common. It´s known as "süsses Milchbrötchen" or "Hefezopf" (sweet Milkroll?). It´s just out of a kind of yeast dough. It´s fine :)
it's like a "concha" bread in Mexico, concha means "seashell" and it resembles a seashell form on the top of the bread...similar concept in Japan but with a melon fruit... :P
i LOVE MELON BREAD
Mmmm.. I want one...
It reminded me of a Mexican Sweat Bread.
Brilliant job on filming and editing! Keep it up!
mmmmh it seems very soft I want to try it!
Hands down my fave baked goods !!!! ^u^
At malaysia... We can find this melon pan at family mart store
i been here :)
reminds me of pan dulce
At 3:10 is the end credit music from "Conversations With My 2 Year Old"!
Man, that looks so good!
I would have been so disappointed if I didn’t see this video and bought that bread because I thought this whole time that bread would taste like melons lol
Hi! I would love to travel to japan in the future, but I can be kind of a picky eater... I love shrimp and some seafood, but I really don't like sauce or dressing... And it seems as though there is always some sort of sauce with things. Any foods you suggest that would help me become more comfortable with Japanese food?
The drink should be made with Midori liqueur - would be authentic to Japan, taste like melons, and be delicious!
Why not anpan? I love red bean paste. @.@ So yummy! Everything looks good but the pop XD I 'd order tea. ^_^
I want to eat that too..because I saw that from a cooking bread anime.(forgot the name)
This named after a melon because the way a melon can be prepared for eating , Cut in half , Seeds spooned out sliced in a diced pattern down to the skin and turned inside out , looks exactly the same
melon bread ^∆^√ Shana!!!!
Hey!
Just wanted to say you make awesome and very nice looking videos with great content!
Keep it up :D
I am surprised to hear that many young people don’t anpan.
That bug photobombed the video at the beginning
I literally thought this bread is like... melon flavoured(??) bcs of the name. I was like crazy want to try this. a bit disappointed when I know it's not melon flavoured... but yeah still looking forward to tasting it. looks fucking delicious, even in anime