melon-pan

There is a kind of bread called "melon-pan" in Japanese. It is a bun covered with soft thin biscuit and it looks like a melon. A student of mine had expected it must have tasted like a melon. It was a pity that he had to find out that the flavor has nothing to do with melons. It was just a sweet bun. But he made a very good Japanese sentence from that finding, using the grammar "towaie", which he was learning as an advanced-level student. That was, "Melon-pan towaie melon wa tsukaimasen", which means, "Although one says 'melon-bun', it isn't made using melons."

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