Innie or Outie

It’s that time of year again. This birthday celebration was topped with a delish and charmingly-packaged chocolate cake extraordinaire from a new bakery in the area.

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This version of local bento boxes included hake, mustard green-carrot-tuna mix, fried chicken, omelette, squid-seaweed-carrot somen, pickled eggplant, burdock-carrot mix, rice, and pickled plum with cracked black sesame seeds.

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This East-meets-West style take-out meal had rice with pickled plum and black sesame seeds, a tuna-carrot-mustard greens mix, niblet corn, pickled eggplant, potato salad on iceberg lettuce, and a giant hamburger pattie.

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These wonderfully sweet munchies (actually American cherries) came from a local supermarket in an adorable faux crystal to-go bowl.

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Included in this local version of mini-bento meal were mackerel, sweet potato, omelet, kamaboko, konyaku, carrot, string bean, white rice with mountain veggies, brown rice with beans, and salmon roe.

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This is a local “Western-style” bento meal with ingredients most people will recognize: braised chicken on a bed of rice, hamburger with demi-glaze sauce, deep fried fish fillets with tartar sauce, corn niblets, carrot, green beans, and tomato sauce penne.

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This is another of the “oba-style” bento meals with mackerel, pork luncheon meat, karashina-fu mix, omelette, daikon, carrot-konyaku mix, chicken, and seaweed-soy bean mix.

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This is another of the local take-out bento meals containing shrimp tenpura, sausage, chicken, scambled egg, mackeral, tofu, carrot , lotus root, mushroom, seaweed, Chinese dumpling, pickled radish, and rice with black sesame seeds.

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This “oba-style” take-out meal consisted of sanma, rice, sunny-side up egg, umeboshi, konyaku and seaweed mix, kabocha, deep-fried kamaboko, and karashina-fu mix.

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This version of local take-out meals was simple yet absolutely delish with karashina-fu mix, deep-fried hard boiled egg, rice with black sesame seeds, umeboshi, carrot-egg mix, konbu-konyaku mix, and a scrumptious pork rib smothered in an almost “Texas-style” barbecue sauce.

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