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A melonpan (メロンパン, meronpan) (also known as melon pan, melon bun or melon bread) is a type of sweet bun originating from and popular in Japan, as well as in Taiwan and China. They are made from an enriched dough covered in a thin layer of crisp cookie dough. Their appearance resembles a melon, such as a rock melon (cantaloupe). They are not traditionally melon flavored,[1] but in recent times it has become popular for manufacturers to add melon flavoring to melon bread. Variations exist, including some with a few chocolate chips between the cookie layer and the enriched dough layer, and non-melon versions flavored with caramel, maple syrup, chocolate, or other flavors, sometimes with syrup, whipped or flavored cream, or custard as a filling. In the case of such variations, the name may drop the word "melon", instead replacing it with the name of the contents (such as "maple pan" for a maple syrup–flavored bread) or may keep it despite the lack of melon flavor (such as "chocolate melon pan").

Melonpan
Alternative names
  • Melon pan
  • Melon bun
  • Melon bread
TypeSweet bun
Place of originJapan
Main ingredients
  • Dough
  • Cookie dough

The name has a bilingual etymology, since "melon" is a loan word from English, while "pan"[2] is from the Portuguese word for bread.

In parts of the Kansai, Chūgoku, and Shikoku regions, a variation with a radiating line pattern is called "sunrise", and many residents of these regions call even the cross-hatched melon pan "sunrise".[3]

Melonpan and pineapple bun from Hong Kong are very similar. By comparison, the Japanese style is lighter in weight and taste, slightly drier and has a firmer outer layer (including top cookie crust) which resists flaking, unlike its Hong Kong counterpart, whose top cookie crust tends to flake easily. The Hong Kong version is also moister, and is generally soft on the outside and inside, with a stronger butter flavour.


History


After World War I, Okura Kihachiro brought an Armenian baker, Hovhannes Ghevenian, also known as Ivan Sagoyan, to Tokyo. Sagoyan worked at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and invented melonpan.[4]




See also



References


  1. Kazuko, Emi: Japanese Food and Cooking
  2. See Infoseek Japanese-English dictionary for pan/パン[permanent dead link] and Japanese words of Portuguese origin
  3. "'Melon Pan'/'Sunrise' Dialect Survey Map from Nikkei". Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-04-04.
  4. Bakhchinyan, Artsvi (3 October 2019). "The Armenian Who Invented the Japanese Sweet Bun". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. Retrieved 10 June 2021.



На других языках


- [en] Melonpan

[es] Meronpan

El meronpan (メロンパン, lit. Pan de melón?), es un pan dulce característico de la confitería japonesa. También es conocido como melonpan. En el idioma japonés la fruta melón, se escribe en rōmaji como meron (メロン).

[ru] Дынная булочка

Дынная булочка (яп. メロンパン мэронпан, известная также, как дынный хлеб или мелон пан) — один из видов сладких булочек в Японии, который также очень популярен на Тайване, в Китае и в Латинской Америке.



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