Innie or Outie

This version of local bento boxes had a little bit of various food categories; such as, potato salad, hot dog, deep-fried shrimp with tartar sauce, egg, hamburger, chicken, spaghetti, mixed veggies, and rice topped with parsley flakes.

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This local version of a take-out bento meal had rice, mackerel, karashina-fu mix, carrot-potato mix, kamaboko, tofu, egg-wrapped imitation crab, bell pepper, and umeboshi.

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This version of rice cracker differs from most. Instead of a roasted soy flavor, it is more reminiscent of a light and crunchy soda bread.

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This is another version of a local bento vendor take-out meal with deep-fried hard-boiled egg, pork luncheon meat, chicken, rice, umeboshi, yakisoba, and a carrot-bell pepper-moyashi mix.

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This is one of the snacks available at a local supermarket with nuts, dried sardines, mini-senbei, etc. It reminds me of a local version of “ChexMix” with a wide variety of flavors and textures.

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This is a different style of take-out bento meal from a local convenience store featuring fried rice with daikon, spring roll, deep-fried white fish with a tomato-based sauce, sweet-n-sour kamaboko wit onions and carrots, cabbage and carrot mix, potato salad, and minced pork wrapped in wonton.

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This version of local take-out meals is similar to Bento #62 with chicken, 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 is another of the convenience store versions of a local wintertime favorite (oden) with hamhock, egg, cow tongue, daikon, kamaboko, sausage, konyaku, pork, and stuffed cabbage rolls, in a clear broth with a spicy mustard condiment. As a side order for the meal, a serving of negitoro (onion and tuna) sushi.

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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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