


Best is if you buy unsliced bread so you can cut it into thick slices for extra fluffy french toast. It has the fluffiness and ability to absorb the custard. If you can, use shokupan, milk bread, or bread you buy at the Asian grocery store. Serve on a plate with powdered sugar, syrup, and whipped cream, if desired. Flip, cover, and continue to cook until golden and puffed up. Use an offset spatula and take a peek, the bottom should be golden and the top should be puffy. Let the piece of bread drain a little bit then place in the pan and cook, covered, on very low heat for about 8-10 minutes.

Lots of the cafes in Tokyo do Japanese style french toast as well. The eggs get puffy and fluffy and it is just SO GOOD. The bread is then cooked low and slow ensuring that the insides are creamy and cooked through while the outsides are just the slightest bit golden.
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There’s a famous french toast at a popular Tokyo hotel that soaks their bread overnight which results in the most tender, custard-y french toast ever. The bread is soaked for a long time so that the bread is completely saturated. They also tend to soak their bread in a more custard-y egg mix with eggs, milk or cream, and sugar. The crusts are almost always cut off and the super soft and fluffy bread soaks up liquid like a sponge. Japanese style french toast is almost just like regular – it uses bread and eggs and is fried, but somehow the sum of its parts ends up being different than the french toast you know and love.įirst off, Japanese french toast starts off with shokupan: super fluffy milk bread. My most recent french toast obsession is Japanese french toast! It’s soft and custardy and very similar to classic french toast while being completely different. Usually they tend to be just like the classic french toast: bread dipped in eggs and milk and fried, but sometimes I encounter a new style of french toast. I like to try french toasts wherever we travel to. Needless to say, I’m a french toast fanatic. I’m pretty sure I’ve talked about my dream french toast restaurant before – the one that would kind of be like IHOP but for french toast instead of pancakes. I am a true lover of french toast and all it’s varieties. A super soft and custard-y japanese tamagoyaki inspired french toast is 100 percent the best way to start the day.
