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| The Pacific sandwich with salmon and pickled vegetables |
The other day I was downtown and grabbed a late lunch at Wa-Bagel, a shop that sells Japanese-style bagels. There are interesting flavour combinations like matcha cheesecake, sweet potato and black sesame, and red bean and cream cheese.
I ordered one of their sandwiches, the popular Pacific, which features smoked sockeye salmon with interesting garnishes like plum paste, pickled red onion, cured cucumber, shiso and caper crisps that cut the richness of the cream cheese on a plain bagel that I requested it be toasted.
These Japanese bagels are softer and less dense than western-style bagels, so the focus is more on the filling, which looks colourful, appetising and was refreshing. The salmon slices were thick rather than thin, while the portion size was just right.
I've tried the Montreal smoked meat sandwich, but the Pacific was better, probably because I'm partial to the pickled and cured vegetables in the latter.
Wa-Bagel isn't a restaurant, but a take-out shop; that said, there's a common area just outside the shop where customers can eat their bagels.
As for the other flavoured bagels, I have yet to try them, but hear the matcha cheesecake is pretty popular!
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