Innie or Outie

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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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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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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