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Baum Cake in Japan

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Ken Connor

Did Tsumugi (K-ON anime) send that to you? LOL

dapete42

I also thought of Mugi the second I saw the title of the video…

George S

Japanese western food always has its own spin on things but baumkuchen is delicious in any form. I thought I'd share this anecdote that I found: "It was first introduced to Japan by the German Karl Joseph Wilhelm Juchheim. Juchheim was in the Chinese city of Tsingtao during World War I when Britain and Japan laid siege to Tsingtao. He and his wife were then interned at Okinawa. Juchheim started making and selling the traditional confection at a German exhibition in Hiroshima in 1919. After the war, he chose to remain in Japan. Continued success allowed him to move to Yokohama and open a bakery, but its destruction in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake caused him to move his operations to Kobe, where he stayed until his death just before the end of World War II. Some years later, his wife returned to help a Japanese company open a chain of bakeries under the Juchheim name that further helped spread baumkuchen's popularity in Japan." I don't remember seeing Juchheim stores in Japan but a Google Maps search reveals there are quite a few around!