Japanese History / Foods at Meiji period
anpan beef		"Anpan" "An" means sweet jam made from "azuki" beans and "pan" means bread. "Anpan" is a bread which sweet jam are placed inside. In 1875 "Kimuraya", a bakery in Ginza, Tokyo put bread and sweet jam together, made "anpan". It was a great hit and people lined up in front of "Kimuraya" to buy "anpan". "Gyuunikuya" (a meat shop) Japanese people started eating beef after the Meiji Restoration but at the beginning of the Meiji era, people didn't want to eat it. As the rumor that beef was delicious spread gradually and eating beef, gyuunikuya (meat shop) became popular in Japan.
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