{"id":1169,"date":"2008-11-29T01:05:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T01:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2008-11-29T01:05:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T01:05:35","slug":"tokyo_banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Banana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3252\/3035090492_d43fcbcf97.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_6024\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nMy friend Rodney gave this to me after arriving in Singapore from Tokyo for a short visit. It&#8217;s a Japanese snack called Tokyo Banana which he bought at Narita Airport. Cute wrapper.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3136\/3035091504_2167813b06.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_6025\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nA white and yellow box is what you see after the wrapper is torn off. The snack is apparently very popular in Japan.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3176\/3035092746_c8325fa731.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_6026\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nSitting pretty and cute in individually wrapped packets are miniature &#8216;bananas&#8217; which are really sponge cakes with a soft banana filling. The sponge cake is nice and soft and the filling is made from real banana. It was a wee bit sweet for me but I think it would have gone well as a teatime snack with a cup of Earl Grey tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Rodney gave this to me after arriving in Singapore from Tokyo for a short visit. It&#8217;s a Japanese snack called Tokyo Banana which he bought at Narita Airport. Cute wrapper. A white and yellow box is what you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}