Innie or Outie

This is one of our traditions, instead of cooking on New Year’s Day we pick-up a platter from one of the local grocery stores. This is one of the better platters we’ve had the pleasure to eat. It contained a little bit of everything, such as three types of chicken, three types of shrimp, shumai, scallops, ham, spring rolls, beef-wrapped green beans, meatballs, bamboo shoot-carrot-pork mix, harusame, edamame, sesame-covered mochi balls, etc.

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This version of local oba-style take-out meals is basicaly the same as Bento #53 except the deep-fried pork cutlet has tartar sauce instead of ketchup; and meatballs are replaced with pork luncheon meat.

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These are a little something hubby picked-up for the holidays. Since we enjoy vanilla-flavored coffee, I thought I’d give a try to doing the marshmallow thing. It didn’t work out too well though. Even though the item is basically meringue, the additional ingredients needed to produce the cookie version kept it from completely disentigrating in the steeping liquid.

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This is another of the local oba-style bentos similar to Bento #55 with daikon, hamburger, rice, sunny-side up egg, umeboshi, konyaku and seaweed mix, kabocha, deep-fried shrimp, and karashina-fu mix.

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This more traditional cuisine meal is similar to Bento #36 with okara, konyaku, konbu, fu and carrot mix, split sanma, tofu, rice and umeboshi.

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This is another of the tasty local bentos, similar to Bento#38, with yakisoba, grilled hamburger, egg, rice, daikon, umeboshi, a fu and veggie mix, chicken, and pork luncheon meat.

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These are very tasty shrimp chips, more commonly known as ebi senbei, with seaweed added.

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Here’s another tasty selection available in the local bento market with rice; deep fried white fish with tartar sauce; potato, carrot and onion mix; broccoli, carrot, and hot dog mix; Shitake mushroom; chicken; and umeboshi.

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This delish version of local take-out meals had tonkatsu with ketchup, rice, umeboshi, daikon, ebi-fry, meatballs, yakisoba, sunny-side up egg, and karashina-fu mix.

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This “oba-style” bento is very similar to bento#14 with rice, umeboshi, yakisoba, a karashina-tuna-fu mix, omelette, pork luncheon meat (spam), and deep-fried pork cutlet with sauce.

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