American Bento Adventure
So I bought myself another bento (べんとう) and I am determined to use it properly this time. Last time I used it in conjunction with my "see if I can make all my meals with only 10 ingredients" fiasco. It was an adventure in nutrition that is probably best forgotten. This time I am back to the bento not only for health reasons but because I have been studying Japanese and the conversations in my lessons usually seem to revolve around food. This led to a variety of cravings including a ramen (ラーメン) phase where I samples a wide range of instant ramen varieties, a sushi (すし) phase where I played around with a variety of California Roll variations (I don't have the courage for sashimi (さしみ)), an onigiri (おにぎり) phase fulfilled by the wonderful Famima (http://www.famima-usa.com/), and yakitori (やきとり - fun fact - I think this is what that big banner sign in the opening credits of Ninja Warrior says) phase where all I wanted was chicken on a stick. So I went to this wonderful market (http://www.marukai.com/) Tom and I found on one of our weekend adventures. I bought an onigiri mold (seen here with a chicken filling and almonds on top - It was my first attempt and not really very pretty) The lunch pack was a great bargain. It included 3 containers (1 with a holder for the chopsticks which were also included) a divider, and ice pack and a carrying case. For desert I have frozen peaches, strawberries and pineapple which will thaw by lunch (I bought frozen because I didn't think I would be ably to finish the fresh fruit fast enough as strawberries go bad so fast) and a single serve pack of Koala's March Cookies(コアラのマーチ http://www.lotteusainc.com/productspagekoala.html) which are koala shaped cookies filled with chocolate. So tomorrow is day 1 if I can keep this up for a couple weeks I want to start making Lunch for Tom too so lets see what happens.
