Melonpan

Melonpan (also known as melon bun and melon bread) is a Japanese sweet bread prepared with sweetened dough that is topped with a layer of cookie dough. It is named melonpan because the crunchy top crust with a criss-cross pattern resembles the melon rind. Apart from Japan, this sweet bread is also popular in China and Taiwan. Despite its name, melonpan traditionally doesn't contain melon, although the fruit has sometimes been added to the bread in recent years. It is believed that melonpan was shaped to resemble musk melons, which held the status of luxury fruit in 20th-century Japan. In Kinki, Chūgoku, and Shikoku, melonpan is called sanraizu, meaning sunrise.