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The laziest animated egg on TV has opened its first cafe in U.S. — and it’s in SoCal

The Gudetama Cafe in Buena Park is an ode to Sanrio’s lazy egg, serving egg-topped katsu sandwiches, breakfast sandwiches and more. The opening of Orange County’s Gudetama Cafe has been anything but “meh.” Lines wrapped through the Buena Park Downtown Mall parking lot on its May 4 opening day, when hundreds of fans showed up to try a cafe devoted to the world’s favorite anthropomorphic, utterly lazy egg. Buena Park’s Gudetama Cafe riffs on some of the eggy menu items seen in other international iterations, but the menu leans decidedly American with breakfast sandwiches, egg-topped sliders and sides of bacon-and-cheese tater tots. Shih, who also helps oversee the food, said the Gudetama Cafe kitchen team also is developing its own desserts such as Portuguese egg tarts and yellow macarons, and that he wanted the cafe to be more informal — with an order-at-the-counter format, as opposed to full-service dining — to be “more reflective of the Gudetama personality.” If Gudetama fans — like their favorite egg — find the thought of rolling out of bed too daunting, even to make it to Buena Park right now, there could be other reasons to visit this and other Sanrio cafes in the future.

LA Times
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