Innie or Outie

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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This is a tasty treat from one of the local convenience stores.

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This local vendor’s version of tenpura is a thick-batter deep-fried selection of fish, squid, string beans, and assorted vegetable mix.

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To accompany the tenpura, we selected miso soup, rice with seaweed mini-wraps dipped in soy sauce, and a small salad of Hubby’s homegrown greens with cherry tomatoes, herbed croutons, and cracked taosted seasame seeds topped with a creamy Italian dressing.

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Although most people would not think of a croissant as a snack item, this particular type of the pastry being sold by a local convenience store chain is small (about 3 inches by 1.5 inches) and extremely flavorful. It can be eaten on its own or filled with some on-the-go ingredients.

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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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“D” is for donut. This one is from a local grocery store and comes in a pack of five.

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This is a creation of one of the local bakeries.

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A little bit of the celebratory goods from a local bakery for our elder dog’s birthday:

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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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