Our son loves bread. Any chance he has he wants to eat bread, if possible with a slice of cheese (but no butter, he does not like butter). When I ask him what he wants for snacks to bring to kindergarten, he often says bread and banana. His love of bread has become quite well known at his kindergarten, but buying bread in Japan is however no easy matter. There are bakeries of course, and you can buy bread in the supermarkets and everywhere you can find food, but that bread is basically versions of white bread and to find what I would call proper whole grain bread is next to impossible. I sometimes still wake up in the morning and really miss eating two slices of Danish rye bread that I always had for breakfast in Sweden.
Bread you can find a lot of in Japan that I have not really seen in Sweden is bread with all kinds of fillings, like curry or thick salmon sauce or bean paste. There is a bakery close to where we live where they have tens if not closer to a hundred different kinds of bread with filling or topping or both. I have come to like this Japanese way of enjoying bread, though if I had to choose I would still prefer a slice of dark rye bread every time.
I have found a type of light brown bread buns that my son really likes, so whenever I go to the store selling them I buy two packages and put one in the freezer when I get home. When the unfrozen bread is eaten and our son wants to have bread, we take out a bun and heat it in the microwave oven. One day, he thought the bread was to warm, but instead of waiting for the bread to cool down, our son goes to the fridge, open the drawer where ice is kept (most Japanese fridges has an ice-making function), and puts a few ice cubes on the bread. I must say that I like his way of solving problems, admitted the bread did not taste as good as he had expected, but that is a small thing for an inventive toddler.
By the way, since today is Christmas Eve I take this opportunity to wish you all a merii kurisumasu as we would say in Japan.
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