This is my review of the famous Japanese melon bread!
So, I first heard about melon bread while watching an anime called Shakugan no Shana.
The main girl character liked melon bread and it made me curious.
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| The thing she's eating is melon bread! |
The moment I saw it in the anime, I thought it looked exactly like a Mexican concha bread! If it was so, then it wouldn't be anything that special since I had eaten concha bread since I was a kid. Concha bread's actual bread part tastes sort of...stiff? I mean to say not that soft :P The crusty things on top are quite powdery but delicious~ Honestly, everyone eats conchas because of their crusty things haha. The best part of eating a concha is to gather all the powder left from the concha and shoving them into your mouth. yummy.
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| Okay maybe it doesnt look EXACTLY the same...but you get my point. |
I bought melon bread right away on my first trip to a convenience store in Shibuya, Tokyo. I waited till I got to my hotel and began the nomnom. Melon bread wasn't that different than conchas...I was sort of disappointed since I expected it to be like super good. The taste was similar to the concha but the bread was softer and the crusty things on top were harder and sweeter.
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I ended up buying one more melon bread just because there was nothing better to eat haha. The crusty things don't fall off crumbling, which is a really good thing~ I sort of expected the melon bread to taste a bit like melons but it turns out it just tastes sweet and does not taste like melons at all xD.
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Overall, it is good but not fantastic. I would rather eat other breads if I could but if melon bread was the only thing I had, I wouldn't complain about eating it. I give it a 7 out of 10.
