Japanese love pan (bread) and puns, and this turtle bread roll is a combo of both. A meron pan (melon bread roll) is a popular bakery treat; a sweet, round roll, crisscrossed on top and sprinkled with sugar. It’s named ‘melon’ because it resembles a rockmelon half. Anyway, some crazy bakers added legs, a tail and a head, to turn it into a kameron (kame is Japanese for ‘turtle’).
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omg! this is just so insanely cute!!!
too cute to eat!!
i could not eat this!!! its too gorgeous! i lurve ur blog!
Cindy, you’re right! I couldn’t eat it. I gave it to a friend.
Thanks Gracie! Yep, so many things in Japan are too cute!
aww so kawaii! <3 it looks yummy…but 2 cute 2 eat! ^-^
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