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Last weekend, I had a delicious bread, whose name was Sal-ra-man-d. Since English is not my native language, its name was written in non-english. It sounds like french. But I don't know its exact name. It is somewhat like a pound cake, with some cheese flavor. I think it is made of cream cheese. Is here anyone who knows its origin, or its original name. It is very hard to google what this bread really is.

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    Could you include the Korean name of the pastry (in Hangul)? I took my best guess (살라만ㄷ) and Google Translate told me it meant *Salamanca* - although I see that Salamanca should really be written 살라망카, so maybe Google Translate doesn't know what it's talking about. If it is meant to be Salamanca, maybe there's a pastry called Salamanca (though I've never heard of it), or maybe it's just someone's idea of a pastry eaten in Spain. – Juhasz Jan 22 '19 at 22:33
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    "cream cheese bread" doesn't tend to be an English thing ... I'd say it's probably from a Slavic or Scandinavian area, but I'm just finding a lot of recipes for "cream cheese bread" (eg, https://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-cheese-danish-bread-breakfast-recipes-from-the-kitchn-162823 ) without what the name is in its original language. – Joe Jan 23 '19 at 15:12
  • @Juhasz As you said, its Korean name is 살라망드(your guess is nearly perfect, notice that a Korean letter must contains at least one vowel). But only Korean bakeries has this name of bread and it is little weird to me. – user190964 Jan 24 '19 at 00:55
  • Thanks. I thought that ㄷ looked wrong on its own. I like Joe's idea about something Scandinavian. I don't know enough about those cuisines to wager a guess, though. – Juhasz Jan 24 '19 at 14:02
  • @Juhasz I'm Scandinavian, and that doesn't look or sound Scandinavian to me. Cream cheese is also not a Scandi thing, although there's a wide range of not entirely dissimilar dairy products like quark. – lambshaanxy Jul 02 '19 at 13:05
  • Note page 24 of [this Korean baking magazine](http://akmb.or.kr/jbcgi/board/masterbaker/MasterBaker_24.pdf), dating from 2015; it gives a recipe for a cherry 샬라망드 (note the very slight difference in hangeul spelling) - it seems very much like a cream cheese cake. – Michaelyus Jul 02 '19 at 15:22
  • Is this it? It's tough to tell what the topping is from your picture... https://www.spain-recipes.com/orange-cake.html – Chris Macksey Jul 02 '19 at 20:52
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    it looks a lot like a cotton cheesecake. I found a blog discussing it, salamande bread... https://undodoc.com/12 – D3vtr0n Sep 19 '19 at 20:26

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According to this Korean blog post it is Salamande bread, and the packaging calls it "Taste of Europe". You know Koreans love a good European bakery.

salamande bread inside

salamande packaging

Salamande is also covered in this blog post as well.

salamande

inside salamande

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    It seems the name is invented in Korea, because there is no post on Salamande outside Korea. Don't you think it is very strange. – user190964 Sep 23 '19 at 08:44