The new school year started last week, along with a new round of school lunches (kyuushoku). School lunch here in Japan is pretty nuts, you never seem to get the same lunch twice. and it’s full of veggies that you’ve never even heard of. For the most part I find them to be pretty delicious, though the occasional inedible dish is served up once in a while. It’s the start of my 2nd (and final) full school year in Japan, so I’m going to post pics of every lunch I have for my memories and your enjoyment. Here we go!
Thursday, April 9
Chicken Nuggets
‘Heathly Salad’
Pork Curry and rice
Coffee Milk
They pulled out all the stops for the first lunch of the year. Chicken Nuggets? Curry and Rice? Coffee milk? Awesome! The only ‘miss’ in this equation is the ‘healthy salad’ with limp cucumbers and slippery, rubbery bits of lettuce. Still, I could wash it down with my coffee milk so overall the school lunch gets a good rating.
Friday April 10
Tempura’d Squid
Bean Sprout and Spinach salad
Udon noodles and broth with mushrooms
Milk with Kobaton reading the paper
I knew a repeat of the awesomeness of Thursday’s kyuushoku was unlikely, but it’s an awfully big jump from curry AND chicken nuggets to a freakin’ tempura’d squid (which was rubbery and unnaturally square). The salad was pretty bitter. The meal was thankfully rescued by the udon, which I’m always a big fan of, even in cheap school-lunch form.
