The earliest review we have is from 9 Oct 2026, less than four months ago.
Fewer than 5 Perth cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. It also covers anything on a small share of cafes that is holding steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
A tall, very soft milk bread loaf, served as thick toast or as the bread for sandos.
Drawn as a shokupan toast, the way Perth cafes most often serve it.
17 Perth cafes: 14 on their menus, 3 from posts.
Showing 12 of 17 cafes, cheapest first
Perth cafes with Shokupan on their menus or in their posts.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Perth's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (632 Perth cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Perth cafes' posts yet, so a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
Perth searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
780 searches, the busiest month.
First Perth review in our data.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Perth.
14 cafe menus
We started reading cafe menus in late 2026. Cafes adding and dropping it each month show here once the first whole month of menu reads is in.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
10suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Perth cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
9 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Shokupan is on 14 Perth cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 10 Perth suburbs, while Perth searches for it rose 39% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
A tall, very soft milk bread loaf, served as thick toast or as the bread for sandos. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 8 Perth cafes across 10 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 17 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 14 Perth cafe menus right now, including Bubble Wrap Cafe in North Perth, Utopia in Cannington, Utopia in Perth Airport and Utopia in Rockingham. 3 more cafes have posted it, though it is not on their current menu. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every one, with the price where the menu gives one, links to the menu or post, and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.
The average is $8.90, from 8 Perth cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $8.90 and $8.90; the lowest we have seen is $8.90 and the highest $8.90.
It is on a bigger share of Melbourne cafes: 1.4% against Perth's 1.3%, over the last 90 days.
It is early days. The Froth rates shokupan as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: the earliest review we have is from 9 Oct 2026, less than four months ago. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 1.3% of the Perth cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Perth searches for it were up 39% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 710 searches for shokupan in Perth in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 380 searches (Dec 2024) to 780 (Jul 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Perth.
The earliest Perth customer review about shokupan that The Froth has is from 9 Oct 2026. We only see what we collect, so that is when we first saw it, not when it started: it may have been sold earlier, here or elsewhere.
A typical shokupan toast, drawn from Perth cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with butter (a knob, melting in), honey (poured over; some use jam) and milk bread toast (a slice about 4 cm thick, tall, soft and fluffy inside). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for shokupan from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once. A change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before, only among cafes we have followed through both, so newly added cafes never look like growth. The 90 days end on the latest day with new reviews or menus (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Perth with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.