Food glorious Food - a photo post of my final school lunches

[laurainlimbo]

I forgot to post the pictures I took of my last week's worth of school lunches. Some of these were actually quite good, but honestly I won't miss these lunches. It was always a mystery what I'd get, and sometimes the quantity was just too much. My system is doing so much better now that I'm eating light lunches at home.

Anyway - it was a very interesting experience. here's pics (no clickable thumbnails this time) of my last school lunches, with explanations, below a cut:



Vegetable curry with rice, fried chicken, corn and spinach salad with cheese (very delicious!), milk and very weak green tea:



Fried fish, some kind of salad with seaweed and beans (not very delicious), miso soup, rice, and a strawberry, and milk (I didn't get tea this day):



Yakisoba, melon bread (yummy!!), fruit with yogurt, and milk:



Oden (daikon radish, pork, vegetables and tofu in a fish soup stock - not delicious at all!), rice with nanohana furikake (nanohana is a flower in English called "rapeseed" and furikake is topping for rice, usually made with seaweed and dried fish and egg - this furikake was delicious!!!), two strawberries (wow), milk and green tea:



Omelette with rice (under the omelette is red rice, made with ketchup and seasonings), salad with daikon radish, celery and cucumber (delicious), miso soup, and a strawberry tart (yummy!), and milk and tea:



And the last school lunch, on my last day of teaching at the junior high was a special one. they served fried "katsu" (pork) for luck (for the graduates) because Katsu in Japanese also means "to win"; "ebi fry" (fried shrimp), "sekihan" (rice with red beans) with "goma" (sesame), which is also served at special occasions (this time, graduation), some strange soup with tofu and something else (not very delicious), a slice of melon, milk (of course) and green tea:





My favorite of these was the omelette with rice, and perhaps the last day since I love fried pork and fried shrimp, and I also like sekihan. it's very tasty!

Hope you enjoyed that slice of Japanese food-life!

Comments

[dr4b]

My school had a kyushoku schedule for each month -- I bet there's a chance you either just didn't receive the schedule or couldn't read it?

I have to admit that sometimes even though I could read it, I'd have no idea what the heck something was going to be anyway. But usually I knew what stuff was, and so if I said "Hello everyone, how are you?" at the class start and someone said "I'm hungry," I'd often say "What's lunch today?" and we'd look at the schedule and it'd be like "Do you like curry and rice? Who doesn't like curry and rice?" and so on as a class conversation starter...

[darciana.livejournal.com]

Many of those dishes look quite delicious. I'm not very familiar with *real* Asian cuisine; I suppose what we get here in Germany and what I cook myself is probably just influenced by traditional Asian dishes.
You don't seem to like tofu. I love all kinds of soy food. Luckily, because I'm lactose intolerant, so tofu, soy milk and other soy products have replaced dairy products.

I love green tea (my all-time favourite drink), but the one we have here never really is green.

That milk package with the giraffe looks cute. :o)

[serialbathera.livejournal.com]

somne of th efood looks really really yummy

[jojobruin.livejournal.com]

Hahah, this reminds me of the lunch I used to buy at the Keio Medical Center. It doesn't look like much but pictures always distort proportions. I'm surprised you say it's too much for you. Hmm, yum! Now I'm craving for Japanese food. I'm going to get Ramen for lunch today then. =)

[pnksaph.livejournal.com]

All of this looks so good. So much variety.

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

I do love your food pics! :D It's so cool to see the lunches in other countries :D

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

Ooo, awesome! I love how you take pictures of the food! :D That corn and spinach salad with cheese looks deee-lish! And so do many of the others, I may have to go make myself a little midnight snack, lol! ;)

Thanks again for sharing all of your pics with us! They're really fascinating! :D *hugs* ♥!

[gwoman.livejournal.com]

those all look delicious! i bet that "something" in the last soup was a fish ball.

[deadwillwalk.livejournal.com]

When you come back to WA, don't drink any milk. 17 brands have been found to have higher levels of radiation. Just wanted you to know in case you hadn't heard. *hugs*

[dawnie1970.livejournal.com]

It looks so good!