TAMAGO SANDO IS THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED EGG SANDWICH ON INSTAGRAM AND HERE'S HOW TO MAKE IT

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: Tamago Sando is the most photographed egg sandwich on Instagram and here's how to make it.

The Japanese Tamago Sando is a mega hit on Instagram. Simply put, it's an egg sandwich, but in a Japanese way, so you know: executed to perfection. This seemingly simple Japanese sandwich with a soft-boiled egg and a salad of hard-boiled eggs has everything to fall in love with. It's soft (due to the type of bread) and savory (due to the filling) and of course: it looks amazing.

While listening to one of my favorite food podcasts, What’s Cooking the Podcast, I got, as often happens when I listen to this, completely excited. The episode in question was about sandwiches, discussing among others the famous Reuben Sandwich and the Cuban Sandwich from the US. For a bread country like the Netherlands, where the sandwich lunch dominates, we know very few sandwich classics, aside from the healthy sandwich and the Amsterdam ‘halfom’ (half pastrami, half cooked liver). In that respect, we can still learn something from the American sandwich tradition, but in Japan, they also know how to do it with their ‘Sando sandwiches’.

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Sando, explain.
You could call them Japanese sandwiches, but that might not fully cover it. The bread for these sandwiches is often made from Japanese milk bread. That's similar to our half loaf of milk white, but even airier and softer. The taste is slightly sweet and milky: delicious with Japanese mayo and Japanese toppings. FavorFlavs Sabina once dared to make it and that was no easy task: ‘Baking bread is already no child's play, but this recipe for the perfect Japanese milk bread is really high school bakery.’

And then the filling, oh, that filling! Think of breaded, fried tender chicken or pork fillets with Kewpie mayonnaise and fresh homemade pickles. Or the ultimate luxury version that I once had: the Wagyu Katsu Sando. Japanese sandwiches, believe me, are well on their way to becoming the new food trend.

Image: @watschaftdepodcast