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cannotfoolowls t1_j4zubjw wrote

I wonder if Chinese/Japanese milk bread came from the English/French/Belgian/Dutch milk bread or the other way around. Or not related at all.

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alex494 t1_j4zw6oz wrote

Well the Dutch were the only people Japan traded with for a while so maybe

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cannotfoolowls t1_j507cj4 wrote

from what I can find milk bread was brought to the UK from Japan around 1862 which is 6 years before the Meiji restauration. But I don't think it was invented in Japan because bread is not really an East-Asian thing. The Japanese word for bread is literally taken from Portuguese (who also kept trading access to Japan). This type of bread seems very European to me.

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