Endangered Snack ― 2009/11/05
This is the food you must try when you visit Japan. A hot dog bun filled with stair-fried Chinese noodle seasoned with Worcestershire-ish sauce, and a little sausage sliced lengthways. Looks disgusting? Actually, its tastes delicious particularly for those who like tacky food!
Also, there is another reason I recommend: this kind of snack buns may disappear if you don’t try it now.
In this country, where food trend can change dramatically and rapidly, this snack is almost an endangered species. Now something like French breads fermented with home-grown yeast or foccacias made from semolina flour imported from Italy are the mainstream (in this Far-East country!). In fact, you rarely find it at stylish bakeries or boulangeries (they might prefer this title) on high streets.
There is a variation of this bun. Based on the same principle, but the noodles are inside the dough.
Is this the Japanese equivalent of Cornish pasty?
And this is yet another variation.
Instead of the Worcestershire-ish sauce and Chinese noodles, this bun holds softly boiled and stir-fried spaghetti seasoned with tomato ketchup (what we call “Napolitano spaghetti”), topped with a sausage made from fish meat (sometimes rabbit, horse, or other animals).
I imagine in the 70s when this type of buns were popular, fish was much cheaper than meat, so fish sausages were commonly used as a substitution for meat sausage. Now the fish sausage has been highly-regarded as a healthier protein, though.
Try a taste of the 70s Japan!
Also, there is another reason I recommend: this kind of snack buns may disappear if you don’t try it now.
In this country, where food trend can change dramatically and rapidly, this snack is almost an endangered species. Now something like French breads fermented with home-grown yeast or foccacias made from semolina flour imported from Italy are the mainstream (in this Far-East country!). In fact, you rarely find it at stylish bakeries or boulangeries (they might prefer this title) on high streets.
There is a variation of this bun. Based on the same principle, but the noodles are inside the dough.
And this is yet another variation.
I imagine in the 70s when this type of buns were popular, fish was much cheaper than meat, so fish sausages were commonly used as a substitution for meat sausage. Now the fish sausage has been highly-regarded as a healthier protein, though.
Try a taste of the 70s Japan!
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