Tamago Sando/Japanese Egg Sandwich

This post is a love note to the oh so addictive egg sandwich that we discovered in the fab Japanese convenience store Lawson and fell in love with instantly and completely!  The phonetic Japanese name of 'Tamago Sando' translates to 'egg sandwich.'  I know, I know, there have been egg sandwiches around for ages and ages, what's the big to-do for one more egg sandwich?  Well, after our last visit to Tokyo, we so longed for our daily Lawson's egg sandwich that I finally put my foot down, no more dreaming ladies and gents, let's make our own!

And it was, wonderfully, so easy to make and so happy to eat!  With a creamy and ever so comforting eggy filling spread onto soft and pillowy milk bread, this humble Tamago Sando Japanese Egg Sandwich is to die for!

Homemade Almond Milk

An absolutely unexpected and most delightful discovery!  It all kinda happened as a offshoot of us making the most delightfully creamy chia seed milk puddings.  If you're familiar with chia seeds, you will already know that these little fiber packed seeds must be soaked in a liquid, wherein they expand, soaking in tons of the liquid and exuding a gel that mixes with the liquid to form a wonderful pudding like texture.  So creamy and delicious but we wanted to find an alternative to using dairy.  And thus we discovered homemade almond milk...an amazing alternative to dairy milk!

Black Sesame Pastry Filling 黑芝麻餡

A spin on the classic Chinese pastry filling, this Black Sesame Pastry Filling is transformed by the addition of extra layers of rich flavors like butter and condensed milk.  Easy to make, deliciously nutty and sophisticated in taste, wickedly black in color, this Chinese Black Sesame Pastry Filling is a soooo yummy and a perennial crowd favorite!

Winter Melon Pastry Filling 冬瓜餡

 

Onward on another new and exciting food filling for our Five Flavors Mini Crystal Zongzi!  This Winter Melon Pastry Filling 冬瓜餡 is a filling that surprised us quite a bit.  I had never realized that the Winter Melon Candy could be used to make a filling!  Even though candied, the winter melon candy still retains the sponginess of the original melon, thus, when transformed into this filling, it soaks up all the flavors it is cooked with, especially the floral hints from the osmanthus flower syrup.  Sweet and delicate, this unique filling is quite delectable!