Shokupan, a fluffy white comfort food, has soared to international popularity. We tried the city’s trendiest loaf
At 7.55am on a recent Friday, I found myself furiously refreshing the website of Ginza Nishikawa, a Japanese bakery in Los Angeles. The reason? A limited quantity of the bakery’s famous Japanese milk bread was going on sale at 8am sharp.
At $18 a loaf, the bread – known as shokupan – doesn’t come cheap. But that hasn’t stopped it selling out within seconds.
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