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Koppe-pan (コッペパン, oblong school-lunch roll)
Koppe-pan is the plain roll that carries half a lunch tray: soft, lightly sweet, and strong enough to split cleanly without turning heavy.
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Chigiri-pan (ちぎりパン, pull-apart bread)
Chigiri-pan is bread made small on purpose: soft enriched dough portioned into neat balls, crowded in a square tin, and baked until every tender roll tears away with its own golden edge.
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Raisin Butter Rolls (レーズンバターロール, Rēzun Batā Rōru)
At the panya counter these are the quiet rolls in the corner: buttery, lightly sweet, raisin-studded, and soft because the fruit is soaked before it can steal water from the crumb.
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Butter Rolls (バターロール, Batā Rōru)
A panya staple made reachable: soft milk dough rolled wide-to-narrow into its little horn shape, proofed until light, then brushed with egg for that quiet gold crust.
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Nama Shokupan (生食パン, fresh-eaten loaf)
This is the panya counter loaf people carry home carefully: pale-gold crust, cotton-soft crumb, and enough milk, cream, and honey that toasting it feels like missing the point.
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Hotel Bread (ホテルブレッド)
Hotel bread is shokupan dressed for the counter: cream in the dough, butter down the crown, and an unlidded bake that gives the loaf its proud color.
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Hokkaido Milk Bread (北海道ミルクブレッド)
The panya counter loaf looks like a small miracle, but the secret is plain: scald part of the flour, knead until satin, and let rich Hokkaido dairy make the crumb tender.
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Yudane Shokupan (湯種食パン)
Scald a portion of the flour tonight, and tomorrow's loaf will tell you why the panya keeps this method close: soft crumb, gentle chew, and moisture that lasts.
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Yamagata Shokupan (山型食パン, mountain-shape loaf)
Bake shokupan without the lid and the same tender dough rises into its mountain cap: soft inside, matte gold outside, and made for thick morning toast.
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Komeko Shokupan (米粉食パン, rice-flour loaf)
Rice flour makes a loaf that refuses to pretend it is wheat: soft, square, faintly sweet, with yudane keeping the crumb moist and that quiet mochi bounce under the fingers.
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Kaku Shokupan (角食パン, Pullman loaf)
Clamp the lid on the same soft shokupan dough and it becomes kaku: square-shouldered, fine-crumbed, built for sandwiches, with yudane keeping the slice moist long after cooling.
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Raisin Shokupan (レーズン食パン)
Soak the raisins first, then let yudane do its quiet work. The loaf bakes tall, tender, and gold, with sweet fruit ribboned through the crumb.
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