Innie or Outie

This is another version of the local “oba-style” take-out meals with rice, a goya (bitter melon) and moyashi (soybean sprout) mix, potato croquette, mini-hamburger, pork luncehon meat (spam), daikon, carrot-egg mix, a konbu-konyaku mix, and deep-fried mackerel.

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This variation of snack crackers was given to Hubby as a gift from a visiting acquaintance from Tokyo. We had never eaten the soybean varieties of senbei before, quite tasty…

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This is another version of a local bento vendor’s take-out meals consisting of rice, mackerel, daikon-carrot-bok choy mix, veggie tenpura, deep-fried chicken, hotdog tenpura, umeboshi, and a side cup of soba-flavored broth.

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This is a mini-bento selection from another local vendor containing rice, deep-fried prawns, tartar sauce, carrots, and a soba-flavored broth. For add-on side dishes, pasta salad and a karashina-fu-tuna mix.

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Another of the local take-out meals, similar to bento#45, with chicken, mackerel, rice, karashina-tuna-fu mix, chunky mashed potatoes with hot dog, faux crab in egg, umeboshi, and diakon.

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This is another of the offerings of a local bento chain included are ginger pork with sesame sauce, rice, umeboshi, daikon, okara-veggie mix, carrot-onion mix, and fu-veggie mix.

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This is another version of rice cracker coated with a sweetened green tea mixture.

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A filling and tasty way to keep warm as we chowed down at a local outdoor eatery by Mihama Bowl. The ramen broth was absolutely delish…

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The meal had pork, bamboo shoot, ramen noodles, minced chicken, fish roe, and scallions in a miso shiro broth with a sheet of nori on the side. To accompany the dish, well what is ramen without gyōza?

This is another take-out meal from the new neighborhood Mom & Pop restaurant. Hubby ate it and used the phrase “chickendon” as a means to describe what he felt the main dish represented. The meal included rice, nori, chicken cutlet with sauce, pickled ginger, seaweed-carrot mix, mixed veggies, and hard boiled egg; accompanied by a soba-flavored broth.

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This version of local bento boxes came from a new neighborhood “Mom & Pop” restaurant. The bento was what I would call a kiddies-size, about half the regular portions. The meal consisted of rice, umeboshi, hotdog, deep-fried pork cutlet, deep-fried sardines, potato salad, beans, tofu, seaweed, and hard-boiled egg. Accompanying the bento box was a soup with the flavor of soba broth.

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