Breakfast at the Bakery

MikoMiko, the hospital bakery.

I have gotten into the bad habit of buying my breakfast from the hospital bakery. In my own defense, it is not just because fresh-baked cream and chocolate filled pastries are so enticing, it is also because the Japanese just don't do breakfast. The Japanese breakfast looks much like the Japanese lunch, which looks much like the Japanese dinner. Rice and miso and maybe even nato (mmm). Cereal was introduced to the country but never really caught on.

Mmm...pastries...

So if you don't eat a home-cooked breakfast at home (which I don't since I don't have a Japanese cook in my apartment), most residents just buy pre-packaged pastries from the mini-mart. I decided to go with the slightly healthier and much more delicious fresh-baked pastries.

My only mishap with the bakery was when I bought one pastry that appeared to be filled with a novel green and maroon fruit that turned out to be... beans. Yes, beans in a pastry. It didn't taste all that bad after I figured out what it was that I was actually eating. But it didn't taste that good either.