alt Hacker News> Can't find a proper piece of bread that isn't sweetened, or you find a French chain doing something almost similar but still not on par with breads found in France.
Funny you mentioned France. Japan won the world pastry competition held in France. The french came second.
How about that?
Japan as a country or a person from Japan?
I still think that you'd find better French bread at any average French town than in Japan, given my personal experience living there.
And sure maybe not upscale Tokyo but Japan is not just Tokyo.