Melon Bread Review

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. 

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. 

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. 

with flash

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.

without flash

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.