Innie or Outie

A local quick and tasty way to cure a sweet tooth.

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This version of bento is slightly different than what is normally seen with minced egg, minced fish, minced meat, deep-fried fish, meatball, deep-fried pork cutlet, chunky creamed potato, spaghetti, and rice.

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This is one more of the local oba-style bento meals with fried chicken, goya chanpuru, mini-meatball, meat sauce spaghetti, deep-fried hard-boiled egg, mackerel, pickled plum, and rice.

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Another of the local take-out bento store meals with meat sauce spaghetti, chicken, pork luncheon meat, hamburger, sautéed veggies, rice, pickled plum, daikon, fried egg, and rice.

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Another of the local convenience store bentos with chicken cutlet, pork cutlet with whole grain mustard, potato croquette, tomato sauce spaghetti, pickled plum, seaweed, pickled veggies, and rice with black sesame seeds.

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This is a supermarket version of traditional local cuisine including tofu, konbu, kamaboko, pork, gobo, konyaku, and a daikon-seaweed mixture.

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This is a very traditional style of cuisine bento from a local take-out chain store. Included were okara (soy bean liquid), shibui (Winter gourd), konbu (seaweed), sanma (river fish), konyaku, goya chanpuru, rice, umeboshi, and tofu.

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This is another version of an obabento from a local take-out chain store. Items included are beans and rice, umeboshi (pickled plum), kamaboko, greens and soy bean curd, tofu, pork, stew with rice noodles, and imitation crab-egg roll.

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This is another of the local bentos with scrambled egg, mackerel, moyashi (bean sprouts), potato croquette, greens, rice, kamaboko (ground fish), and umeboshi (pickled plum).

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This is a take-out store’s version of a local bento meal. Spinach-tofu chanpuru, deep-fried pork cutlet with sauce on a bed of julienned cabbage, pork luncheon meat, scrambled egg slice, pickled radish, meatball, rice, and seaweed.

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