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Cloud of flowers by the April, (no matter how many times I have been eagerly encircling around here) I have been reminded that (gratefully) Green Pumpkin Japanese Bakery has not deviated from its initial story. Green pumpkin- the bibelot of a bun, shaped like a pumpkin, with green skin resembling those of the intense squash, the asian variety or Japanese pumpkin. Not too far, with the cracked assignment of tourmalines littered, pink (garnet) and white breads laid for the spread.
In Japan, April is the month of the cherry blossoms and Ichiban Sushi, Ichiban Boshi and its birthed patisserie Green Pumpkin Japanese Bakery sound the horn of spring synchronically with sweet sakura selections. Kawaii, another of its weapon, the animal-shaped buns series, a Part 1, painstakingly provides labels for you knowing the bread-thirsty in you. For a cuppa, go with the irregular, asian rendition of Yuzu Latte or Matcha Latte, and trail in a little bit with pumpkin puree in the green pumpkin mont blanc, or nutty mix of pumpkin seeds on top of a pumpkin-flavoured green pumpkin muffin.
How many times of the year can you catch such a (botanical) sight? Once in a pink moon. Pink and white, on majority of the trays. At one of the shelves occupied, an electrifying pink slays through the (?)cheeses and cheese-crusted bun. Lightning.
Sakura, and cubes (the abstraction, the illusion), there is some form of incapacity in grasping how the sakura is to be suggested on a (savoury) bun entirely. While the pink may have been jarring, it is a juicy, pink currant of brined sakura (blossom) on a cheese bun. The translucent gelatinous pink squares? I am no longer obliged to find the Laughing Cow's party cubes- discard the ham or tomato or french onion, cheese is pink here! The sugared cheese (sweet taste)- deposited at the crater of the cookie crust wrapped around a soft ball of bread dough bun, distributed among the other cheese cubes. Igneous stones between.
Where there was cheese, there's ham. Matcha dainagon, (or tsubushian, koshian, kurogama) they are too run of a mill for Japanese pans- we'd need some yuzu, satsumaimo, or kubocha(?), this is sakura anpan. Though matcha bread, it is filled with shiro-an or sakura-an (encouraging), the latter easy on the mouth white bean paste and minced sakura leaves and perhaps, pink colouring, churning up that impression of meat. Hence it does not hurt being bitten a second time, one of the top pick me up in Green Pumpkin.
P.S. Ichiban Sushi/Boshi or Green Pumpkin Japanese Bakery are planted in the trio of colours, white, pink, green because their mill runs deep into the traditions of wagashi making. This answers for the venturesome make-up of the bakery's interiors/fillings- the tsubushi-an (coarse red bean) koshi-an (fine red bean) satsumaimo (sweet potato) kurogama (black sesame) shiro-an (white bean) kubocha (Japanese green pumpkin), and why it'd be
