Yakisoba-pan

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Yakisoba-pan (焼きそばパン) is a popular Japanese food in which yakisoba is sandwiched between an oblong white bread roll resembling an American hotdog bun known as koppe-pan. This high-carbohydrate food item is essentially a sandwich with a filling of fried wheat noodles. Omura describes it succinctly as a "Japanese noodle bun". Behymer more loosely terms it a "spaghetti sandwich" and it has also been portrayed as a Japanese stir-fried noodle sandwich. Moreover, scenes of young people eating this high-carb food in Japanese films such as "Hanataba mitaina koi o shita" (花束みたいな恋をした; I fell in love like a bouquet) or "Shitsuren meshi" [失恋めし, Heartbreak on a Plate] further attest to its cultural ubiquity in Japan.

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