Korokke Pan Shop: Happiness in a Bun
Show: Document 72 Hours --> Season: 11 - Season 2023
AirDate: 1/23/2023
Runtime: 25
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Overview: Korokke pan, or bread rolls filled with deep-fried potato croquettes, topped with sauce are a specialty of a family-run shop in Minamisenju, a down-to-earth Tokyo suburb. Among the customers craving this cheap, filling snack made at the shop were a regular who has been coming here for over 50 years; a man buying some for himself and his friends; and a man currently between jobs. Why have locals become so fond of a snack made exactly the same way it was decades ago? For three days, we asked them.