Translation guide
A light, flaky pastry made from laminated dough. In Japanese, it is most commonly referred to by the borrowed term パイ生地, but traditional Japanese pastries and specific Western-style items have their own names.
Referring to the flaky, layered pastry used in Western baking, such as for pies, turnovers, or mille-feuille.
The standard term for puff pastry dough. パイ means 'pie' and 生地 means 'dough'. This is the most common and widely understood word.
冷凍パイ生地を使うと便利です。
It's convenient to use frozen puff pastry.
パイ生地を何層にも重ねて焼きます。
Puff pastry is baked by layering it many times.
Literally 'folded-in pie dough', this emphasizes the lamination process. Used in recipes or technical contexts.
折り込みパイ生地を作るのは手間がかかります。
Making laminated puff pastry takes time and effort.
A direct loanword from English 'puff pastry'. It is understood by baking enthusiasts but less common than パイ生地.
このレシピではパフペストリーを使います。
This recipe uses puff pastry.
Referring to baked goods made from puff pastry, such as a pastry shell or a filled pastry.
In Japanese, パイ often refers to a pie or a pastry item made with puff pastry, such as an apple pie or a meat pie. Context usually clarifies whether it's the dough or the finished product.
あの店のアップルパイはサクサクです。
The apple pie at that shop is flaky.
ミートパイを温めて食べました。
I heated up and ate a meat pie.
A general term for pastry confections made with puff pastry. Often used in menus or product descriptions.
この店はパイ菓子が豊富です。
This shop has a wide variety of puff pastry sweets.
Referring to traditional Japanese pastries that have a flaky, layered texture, which might be described as 'puff pastry' in English but are culturally distinct.
A Japanese sweet consisting of a flaky pastry shell (often made with a laminated dough) filled with sweet bean paste or other fillings. It is a hybrid of Western puff pastry and Japanese manju.
パイ饅頭は外がサクサクで中はしっとりです。
Pie manju are crispy on the outside and moist inside.
In English, 'puff pastry' is distinct from 'pie crust' (shortcrust pastry). In Japanese, パイ生地 can refer to both puff pastry and pie dough, so clarify if needed. For shortcrust, you can say タルト生地 or クッキー生地.
タルト生地はパイ生地よりサクサクしていません。
Tart dough is less flaky than puff pastry.
To emphasize the flaky, layered texture of puff pastry, use onomatopoeic words like サクサク (crispy/flaky) or パリパリ (crispy/crunchy).
焼きたてのパイはサクサクで美味しい。
Freshly baked puff pastry is crispy and delicious.