Sunday, June 14, 2009

köln

On a recent trip to the market, I found Köln's Chocoppe. 126 yen (about US$1.26) If you remember I tried some of their breads on a recent trip to Rokko.

Well, after that trip, I was surfing the web and found that their Chocoppe was quite popular.

Koppe pan is actually a made-up Japanese word apparently taken from "coupe" in French and "pao" in Portuguese.

This particular koppe pan was like french bread with a slather of dark sweet chocolate.

I've had something similar from
Isuzu bakery, theirs is called chocolate france. (The Japanese sometimes call baguette "france pan".)

Köln's version is delicious, I loved the chewiness of the bread and the chocolate has just the right amount of sweetness...perfect snack with coffee.

10 comments:

Hello Sweetie said...

Hi Kat,

that bread sounds good.

My local bakeries fail when held up to the delights you regularly find. I must get on my bike and visit other ones.

TK

K and S said...

Hope you find some goodies soon HS :)

Take care.
Kat

Anonymous said...

«Pao» is actually writen «pão» and it means bread in portuguese.

K and S said...

Thank you Mariana, I don't know how to change my fonts to European.

Take care.
Kat

Deb in Hawaii said...

Yum--chocolate and bread is one of my favorite things!

K and S said...

I can't believe I never tried this combo growing up Deb :)

Take care.
Kat

Rowena said...

I like how they have that fancy paper wrapper around the bread. It reminded me of visits to france where often they'd just wrap a baguette in a slip of paper if you're ordering just that, but here in Italy they put it in a paper sack.

Rowena said...

Oh, and about Mariana's comment....I was just wondering, if I write a word with the accent above or to the side of a vowel, do you see it? Here's a test:
é è à ù ò

I figured that if your pc can't read it then it looks like a square...or whatever. When I type out those vowels I always try to remember to put a mark to the side, like this e', but most times I just leave it alone.

Kim said...

Hi Kat,
Do you think I'd get almost the same flavors if I spread Nutella on some french bread? I know it's not dark chocolate but none of the bakeries around me would carry something cool like this. I'd have to get creative and make it myself.

Thanks!

K and S said...

it was actually in a plastic bag too Rowena :( oh, and I can see all your accent marks :)

Pocky, you could use nutella or just melt some dark chocolate and spread it on the baguette :) I hope either way works out for you.

Take care you two.
Kat