Anpan

anpan (あん パン or 餡 パン?) is a sweet bread with red bean paste content. Bread is not a food commonly eaten by Japanese people before, but now many types of bread which is a typical Japanese food, such as: Meron-pan, kurimu-pan, herb-pan, koshian-pan, Ogura an-pan, cherry an-pan, korone, and others. This could be because people clever in introducing traditional Japanese food from other countries and adapting them to suit Japanese tastes.

An-pan created in 1874, by owner kimuraya bread in the Ginza district of Tokyo. Kimura Yasube'e initially, the name of the store owner tried to make bread to suit Japanese tastes. Then by taking the idea of steamed manju is a typical Japanese food, didapatlah bread is soft, sweet, easy to eat, and fits well with the Japanese taste.