Am I in Heaven?
Mood:  happy
Melonpan. I've been hearing about this delicious sweet bread from the kids. It doesn't have melon in it, it's just shaped like a melon! A teacher told me that you couldn't get it around here that it only was sold on the streets in Tokyo and maybe Kyoto. Well, I'm riding my bicycle out of Hamako in the rain this afternoon. It's fairly dark at 5pm but I see on the street corner a gathering of people in front of a van. As I pull up, I discover that two guys are grilling this wonderful looking bread ("pan" in Japanese). It is yeast sweet bread, coated in sugar. They guarantee me for 120 yen that it is oiishi (delicious). Well, they are correct! It's selling like hotcakes. It was a bit of heaven standing in a cool rain under my umbrella mounted to my bicycle handlebars eating this hot-off-the-grill sweet. Life is good.