Innie or Outie

Here is another supermarket version of bento that was a sampler-style and had almost everything two types of rice, chicken, scrambled egg, two types of shrimp, mushroom, kamaboko, carrot, seaweed, sushi, green beans, tofu, pickled ginger, pickled plum, konyaku, and mackerel. (But no noodles or kitchen sink….)

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This local take-out chain store version of bento included fried soybean spouts with spam, yakisoba, potato croquette, chicken, and shrimp tenpura with rice and pickled radish.

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This option in the local convenience store bento boxes contained a myriad of edibles: mountain vegetables, seaweed, potatoes, potato croquette, chicken, hamburger, deep-freied pork luncheon meat in an herbed batter, deep-fried shrimp, hard-boiled egg, and rice sprinkled with herb.

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This small bento from a local grocery store had rice, goya (bitter melon) chanpuru, chicken, and pickled ginger root.

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As a side dish to the goya chanpuru bento, hubby ate this Japanese “Fast Food” – Mozuku (a slightly slimy type of seaweed in a lemony-vinegar flavored juice).

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This local convenience store version of bento consisted of spaghetti, deep-fried shrimp with tartar sauce, hamburger, deep-fried chicken, a thin slice of pork, potato salad, corn niblets, and rice with toasted sesame seeds.

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Another of the local bento boxes with pork, sausage, hamburger, potato salad, potato croquette, pickled veggies, rice, and kamaboko.

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This version is in the Bento#12 group, but has goya chanpuru as the main dish.

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This is similar to Bento#13, except instead of mackerel it had fish that the locals call gurukun.

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This is another of the more local oba-style bentos. It had tonkatsu with ketchup as a sauce, goya chanpuru, deep-fried prawn, spam, sunny-side-up fried egg, rice, umeboshi, and an unusual (almost SOS flavor) chunky mashed potato with hot dog salad.

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This tasty take-out bento option is less busy in the food selection and the flavors are more reminiscent of local island cuisine.

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