Choco Pan Type 1

Choco pan is Japanese for Chocolate bread.  It is found all over Japan but takes three main forms.  The first is pictured here and is probably the sweetest and stickiest.  It is basically a low grade sweet bread roll that is filled with chocolate cream (sort of like a bitter chocolate mouse).  In this case, it was a cheap convenience store snack, so the quality was quite poor, but the chocolate to bread ratio was exceptional.  About 3 to 1.

If you can guess and describe the other two styles of choco pan I’d love to hear from you.  And this time there will be a reward for both types.  If you are enough of an expert to get both of them right then I’ll send you something sweet and Japanese for you to eat and review so we can all learn about it.  I’ll write about the next one early next week so you have until the end of the weekend.