Where to order the best Japanese fruit cream sando in Melbourne

Filled with mascarpone, cream cheese and fresh fruit. This famous Japanese convenience store snack can now be found in the city.

Sugar Labo

In the lower levels of QV Melbourne you'll find Sugar Labo. This tiny kiosk serves all sorts of Japanese treats with the highlight being its fruit sando. The milk bread is perfectly soft, the fruit is fresh and the cream filling is just the right amount of sweet. Add a matcha or hojicha latte and you'll be transported all the way to Shibuya.

Coppe Pan

Light, fluffy and baked fresh in-house daily. Coppe Pan’s slightly sweet shokupan is the ideal base for a dessert sando. Perfectly uniform slices are filled with a cubic layer of cream, dotted with giant strawberries, kiwi and more seasonal fruit. Matcha cheesecake, strawberry mochi and vanilla custard cube pastries are in plentiful supply, too.

Le Bajo Milkbar

Hidden in a North Melbourne warehouse, Le Bajo Milkbar was started by one of the founders of Bali's Potato Head Beach Club. The seasonal fruit sando is made fresh every day, and it's heavy on the decadent, creamy filling. The slices are so stacked with goodness, they need to be held together with twists of brown paper. Get in early, they go fast!

Pantre

For a fruit cream sando that's almost too cute to eat, head to Pantre. This gourmet Asian grocer offers everything from gigantic cans of Sapporo to frozen durian, obscure instant noodles and a fridge dedicated to tofu. The fruit sando is suitably extra too, with orange, kiwi and strawberry pieces arranged to look like giant flowers inside the sandwich.

Fuumi Fuumi

Fuumi Fuumi is the West Melbourne Japanese bakery that was so popular in its first months, they had to close for renovations to expand the space! Back in business for a while now, they've nailed the fruit, cream cheese and fresh shokupan combo. The seasonal fruit toast is a deconstructed-style sando, where rich cream cheese and fresh fruit is layered on an enormous piece of nama shokupan. We're talking super stacked, platform levels of bread here.

Sulbing

This might be slightly pushing the definition of a sando, but we couldnt skip the cubic cake delights on offer at Sulbing. Spongey cake, lightly whipped cream and juicy fruit segments are cut into bite-sized snackable portions. So you can dine-in and enjoy, or grab-and-go when you're on the run. These mini morsels of shortcake look similar enough to a sando, you might be able to pull off having one for lunch.