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School Lunch: Week of April 17

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 [...]

School Lunch: Week of April 10

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, [...]

Today’s Lunch: 9-17

Monday was “Respect for the Aged” day, and Tuesday was a substitute holiday for Sports Day, so I didn’t have school lunch again until Wednesday. Nothing too wacky in this lunch, besides the weird potato chicken stuff.

This lunch gets 4 out of 5 gyoza, yummy, gyoza

Today’s Lunch 9-12

In what may be a series, or just may be a one time gig, I shall unravel the mysteries of the Japanese school lunch. Let there be no doubt, the lunches at my Japanese elementary and junior high schools are infinitely better that I remember my American school lunches being growing up. That said, I [...]