Chikuwa Pan (Fish-Cake Bread) is a signature dish of Japan; we have verified places to eat it in Sapporo. A loaf of soft bread baked around a tube of chikuwa fish cake stuffed with tuna-mayo salad and topped with more mayo. Start with where to eat Chikuwa Pan (Fish-Cake Bread) in Sapporo.
Chikuwa Pan (Fish-Cake Bread) · Sapporo
A loaf of soft bread baked around a tube of chikuwa fish cake stuffed with tuna-mayo salad and topped with more mayo. The Sapporo bakery icon, invented 1983 at Donguri.
Chikuwa pan was invented in 1983 by the founders of Donguri bakery on Odori, looking for a way to use chikuwa (a Japanese fish cake tube) in a bakery context. The bread became the city's signature bakery item within a decade; Donguri now sells around 2,300 a day across its nine Sapporo branches. The pan is also a souvenir export to Tokyo and Osaka through department-store food halls, although Sapporo's version stays the canonical bake.
Where to eat in Sapporo:
- Donguri Odori
- Donguri Susukino
Where to eat Chikuwa Pan (Fish-Cake Bread) in Sapporo: the editor picks