Asian bakeries are my weakness, and the Japanese ones are the most innovative of them all.  Take this mentaiko baguette, for example: a crusty French baguette (though more akin to the consistency of crispy garlic bread) has been slathered with marinated pollock roe paste.  It’s a bit jarring to get a slightly fishy smell and taste as you eat this bread, but it’s not a bad surprise.  The only bad thing, really, is that it could have used even more mentaiko paste… Bake6-24 Shindaiku-machiNagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture〒850-0017 Japan

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Asian bakeries are my weakness, and the Japanese ones are the most innovative of them all.  Take this mentaiko baguette, for example: a crusty French baguette (though more akin to the consistency of crispy garlic bread) has been slathered with marinated pollock roe paste.  It’s a bit jarring to get a slightly fishy smell and taste as you eat this bread, but it’s not a bad surprise.  The only bad thing, really, is that it could have used even more mentaiko paste…

Bake
6-24 Shindaiku-machi
Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
〒850-0017 Japan

nibbles and bites.