Bread Quiz

Curry Pan (Fried Curry Bun)

Like curry wrapped in a crisp fried crust, you draw clear lines while keeping your thoughts warm inside.

Crisp outsideSomething tucked insideEveryday staple

Curry pan is curry wrapped in bread dough, coated in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. It's said to have started when a Tokyo bakery began selling it in the late 1920s, early in the Showa era, and today it's a savory staple found in many Japanese bakeries. The outside is crisp, and the inside is packed with curry.

You're clear about where you draw the line on requests and what you won't budge on. But you don't show your reasons or feelings right away; you keep them warm inside. And you don't tuck good things away; you use them in everyday life.

With curry pan, you only find out what the curry inside is like when you bite into it. Your thoughts, too, stay invisible to others until you say them. If you turn something down firmly without your reasons getting across, the only thing left with the other person is the feel of a hard crust. Just one bite's worth will do: add one reason.

Strengths

You can draw a line on the spot while leaving unsaid what doesn't need saying
You can steadily keep up everyday life at the same pace
You can let your thoughts warm up inside before sharing them

Where you may stumble

You don't say why you turned something down, so it comes across as stiff
You don't speak until your thoughts are in order, so others decide first
Because you value everyday life, even special days tend to go just like any other

Sounds familiar, Curry Pan (Fried Curry Bun)?

You only explain why you said no once someone asks
Days after finishing a book that moved you, you suddenly start talking about it
You use a slightly pricey pen for every everyday note until it runs dry

Where you shine

Keeping up the rules of a shared space, day in, day out. Your steady effort, and your sense of when to say “that's enough,” are likely to keep the place calm.

Tips for “Curry Pan (Fried Curry Bun)”

When you say no, say just one short reason out loud
Even before your thoughts are in order, try saying “Right now, I'm thinking this”
On a once-a-year day, bring out one thing you don't normally use

Matches

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Easy together

Pain au Chocolat — Pain au Chocolat also has a crisp crust and keeps its feelings inside. Both draw lines before using words, so they understand each other without much explaining. Seeing Pain au Chocolat pour its energy into special days makes Curry Pan want to set aside one treat outside the everyday too.

Easy together

Anpan (Sweet Bean Bun) — Anpan keeps its feelings inside and values everyday life. After Curry Pan turns something down firmly, Anpan, with its soft crust, gently smooths things over, so the situation doesn't get tangled.

May clash

Brioche — Brioche has a soft crust, shows its excitement just as it is and treasures special days. To Curry Pan, who values everyday life, Brioche's “Let's make today special” sounds like a sudden change of plan; to Brioche, Curry Pan's short replies look unenthusiastic.