Melon pan is a popular Japanese sweet bread with a crunchy sugary topping. It’s named so because it looks like a canteloupe melon, not because it is actually melon-flavored. Keiji loves melon pan. It’s usually made the size of his head but he can eat the whole thing. This small coffee shop in Asakusa in front of the Sensoji Temple looks like it has really good melon pan. Unfortunately we went there too late at 4 pm and it was all sold out already. The photo is of their plastic display melon pan. Doesn’t it look so real? Strange alternative, but we just had wasabi ice cream instead.
