Bakery:
Pan de Pan
Address:
1 Chome-6-6 Akancho Akankoonsen, Kushiro, Hokkaido
Website:
https://tsurugasp.com/akan-pandepan/
Style:
Japanese
Price:
$$
This, the only bakery in the hot spring town of Akanko Onsen, is a cute, incredibly red space with a small selection of baked goods, both sweet and savoury, laid out on wooden planks, some pastries and a few gourmet products scattered here and there. There are quite a bit of larger loaves of bread and repeat products taking up room, making the assortment look bigger and more varied than it really is. Prices are good, especially considering that they've got a monopoly in town and are located in one of the larger hotels.
Bypassing all the usual Japanese bakery classics, I went with their seasonal special: the pumpkin danish (80 yen each). I love pumpkin baked goods and I even had a few really tasty ones on this particular trip, so I was pretty disappointed to find that the pumpkin filling had almost a savoury taste to it, despite the fact that the danish itself - too soft for my liking - was clearly a sweet baked good. The pumpkin, on the other hand, wasn't sweet at all and was literally just mashed pumpkin. It hadn't been seasoned or spiced in any way and had the texture and blandness of sweet potato. Certainly not what I was thinking about when it came to pumpkin pastries. This was all trick, no treat. x__x
Rating: **
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