Continuing my kyuushoku (school lunch) series.
Monday, April 13
Some kind of fish
5-types salad with a bunch of stringy veggies
Soup with Tofu and cabbage (Dosanko)
Rice
Milk with a Kobaton having a picnic
Rice crackers from one of my teachers
This is one of those Japanese-style meal where I don’t know half of what I’m eating. I’m really not a fan of school lunch fish, but I remember this one being decent. I liked the soup. The rice crackers were a nice touch.
Tuesday, April 14
Egg omelet-y thing with veggies and tiny fish
Salad with beans, carrot and some potato-like substance
Seaweed and Tofu soup
Wakame Rice (rice with seaweed in it)
Milk (Kobaton Picnic)
Wow, seaweed-arific! No less than 3 of the four main parts of this meal had seaweed. I like seaweed rice, so that’s no big deal. I don’t mind it in the soup except that as you can see, they put a LOT in there. I was enjoying the omelety thing until I realized it had tiny fish in it (baby sardines). What the what? Salad was decent if oily.
Wednesday, April 15
Two fried shrimp and sauce
Salad with Thousand Island dressing
Kosome Soup (broth with bacon bits and lettuce in it)
Bread and Jam
Milk (Kobaton reading the paper!)
This is what is call a ‘western style’ lunch, even though it’s doubtful anyone in the west has had all of these foods at the same time. The shrimp were pretty awesome, salad and soup was kind of bland, and the big hunk of bread with jam was very random, but I still ate it all.
Thursday, April 16
Tofu burger patty
Salad with sesame dressing
Pork soup with the potato-y bits again and this weird squash-like substance
Rice
Milk
Honestly, before I came to Japan, the only time I ate just the patty of a burger like a steak was in a Lean Cuisine Salisbury Steak frozen dinner. But here, they have these burger patty all the time (usually called ‘hamburg steak’). Today was a tofu hamburg. and it was actually pretty tasty (the sauce is what makes it). Salad is basically the same as the day before except with sesame dressing/sauce, which is pretty good. Nothing too remarkable about the soup or rice.
Friday, April 17
Egg roll
Salad with seaweed, shrimp and squid
Ramen soup and noodles
Milk
Orange yogurt
As much as I want to like kyuu-shoku egg-rolls, they put me off a little bit. Why? Because they’re filled with some kind of unidentifiable mush. It tastes good, but the texture is kind of bleh. Salad is a bit nasty because of the presence of rubbery squid. The soup is fine. And it’s nice to be rewarded with some orange yogurt at the end of a long kyuushoku week.
And that’s the week in kyuushoku.
