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07.13.2020

This blog will likely no longer be active after July 15th. I am returning to my home country and therefore will no longer be experiencing Japanese food. I doubt people will be interested in quarantine food or plain Canadian food.

Today I went for lunch with a former English teacher to a lovely little restaurant in Shimanto. We had the soup curry with mixed rice and a salad. It was actually a little spicy.

#mixed rice #Japanese food #soup curry #mushrooms #bacon #Disgusting tomatoes #cucumbers #cabbage #almonds #pickled shallots #saffron #green onions

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07.09.2020

Today marks my final day at my Junior High School and thus my final day eating school lunch. It’s been quite a fun three years here in Japan. School lunches have opened me up to a lot of foods I would have never thought to experience (whole smelt). 

Today was egg and chicken in a soupy bowl. Katsuo rice. Finally a salad of pickled cucumber and bean sprouts. Also a frozen mikan for dessert.

I’ll miss Japanese school lunches so much!

#Japanese food #school lunch #egg #chicken #carrots #mushrooms #brown rice #katsuo #cucumbers #daikon #bean sprouts #bonito #mikan orange

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07.08.2020

Second to last lunch. Can you see the massive difference between how my school serves rice vs how my friend’s school gives her rice? So much less. It was barley rice today. There was also nori to eat along with it. There was a clear consomme soup with bacon, noodles and veggies. The salad was a pickled cabbage and cucumber salad. Finally the tofu was covered in tuna and cheese and baked. Pretty damn good.

#Japanese food #school lunch #cucumbers #daikon #cabbage #noodles #bacon #barley rice #nori seaweed #tofu #cheese #tuna #carrots

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07.07.2020

Only a few days left. Today was a busy, busy day so I forgot to take a picture. Thankfully, one of my coworkers did!

We had a delicious mixed rice, cucumber pickles, a very slimy noodle soup. It featured okra heavily but had a mild taste. Finally, lots of fried smelt. There was also a jelly for dessert. It was the tanebata festival so it was star themed.

#japanese food #school lunch #chirashi zushi #fried fish #smelt #noodles #okra #seaweed #tofu #egg #cucumbers #daikon #jelly

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07.06.2020

Last four days of school lunch. Today was a very fatty pork dish with Hawaiian salad (aka, cucumbers and pineapple). Then there was beans and hijiki. Finally, white rice.

#Japanese food #School lunch #Konyaku #Cucumbers #Beans #Carrots #Fish cakes #Lotus root #Bamboo #Burdock root #Pork #Sesame #White rice #Pineapple

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07.02.2020

This is not a school lunch. I had to go to Kochi City with a friend for visa purposes. So we decided to stop for lunch at a nice cafe offering a set meal for lunch. The daily menu for this lunch changes. It was 880 yen for this meal. 

It featured miso soup and white rice along with some side dishes (a leafy pickled salad, some sort of stem pickled with bonito flakes and then daikon thath ad been boiled with konyaku. There was fried shrimp with tartar sauce, chicken karaage and also steak! Finally some pickled daikon and cucumber.

#japanese food #set lunch #white rice #daikon #cucumbers #miso soup #karaage #steak #fried shrimp #tartar sauce #mayonnaise #leafy vegetable #konyaku #tea

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07.03.2020

We’re into July now. Only 5 more days of school lunch for me at this point and I’m going to be missing it! Friday was a nice, classic vegetable curry (featuring pork as well). There was a daikon salad in some sort of peanut dressing. Barley rice. Finally there was a citrus fruit called a “mishoukan”. It was similar to a buntan in that you peel away the sections and eat only the middle. 

#japanese food #school lunch #barley rice #daikon #peanuts #cucumbers #curry #pumpkin #potatoes #pork #carrots #citrus fruit

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Hello! I love your blog, it’s really eye opening to see the huge difference between American school lunch and Japanese school lunch. Not only is the content of the food way better but also appear more filling. My concern is how long is the lunch period/time? I remember always getting roughly 45mins of lunchtime in US. Are there times where you or any students had to rush to finish lunch?

Hey! Thanks for the message! 

Lunch time varies from Elementary to Junior High. At my junior high, the students have about 15-20 minutes to prepare and serve lunch to their classmates and then they have 15 minutes to eat it. For JHS kids this is not really a problem. At elementary school they also have about 20 minutes to eat but immediately after is a recess so students who do not finish have time to continue eating at the expense of free time. 

#question #Anonymous

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06.29.2020

I'm overjoyed with this meal. Kibinago, silver-striped round herring, is one of my favourite lunches. It's one of the things where I had never expected I'd like whole fish. But it's so good.

Then an egg soup, cucumber salad and rice.

#Japanese food #School lunch #White rice #Kibinago #Cucumbers #Egg soup #Eggplant #Tofu #Carrots #Cabbage #Okra

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06.28.2020

Pretty nice lunch overall. A slice of melon for dessert. A pumpkin and bacon soup with fried rice. Finally there was a wilted cabbage salad.

#Japanese food #School lunch #Cabbage #Carrots #Corn #Bacon #Pumpkin #Spinach #Fried rice #Beef #Potato #Sweet potatoes

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06.26.2020

ANOTHER request lunch. Wow! Three in one month but this time it wasn’t karaage. This time we had steak and onion and potato salad! Very unique. Though egg drop soup and wakame seaweed rice made a repeat appearance. This time a blueberry crepe instead of a chocolate one. Overall, really good.

#Japanese food #school lunch #potato salad #potatoes #cucumbers #corn #carrots #steak #onions #egg soup #seaweed #wakame rice #crepe

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06.25.2020

Really yummy lunch today! Some dumplings, a nice salad with fresh summer corn. A bowl of pork and tofu to put over barley rice. It was filling and really good.

#Japanese food #school lunch #barley rice #dumpling #carrots #cucumbers #corn #tofu #pork #eggplant

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06.24.2020

Pretty good lunch on wednesday. Salmon (with a few bones) a nice wilted pickled salad. A very hearty miso soup with lots of tofu. A slice of frozen pineapple for dessert. The rice was ‘seikhan’, or red bean rice. Sticky and delicious.

#japanese food #school lunch #salmon #cabbage #bean sprouts #tofu #seaweed #spinach #red bean rice #sekihan #pineapple

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06.23.2020

Not the greatest lunch but it was okay. The cucumber salad definitely had some sesame oil in it which made it delicious! The donburi bowl of pork and bamboo was also pretty good. We had white rice and then a snack of dried beans. 

And also a disgusting mini tomato.

#Japanese food #school lunch #bamboo #green beans #onions #carrots #pork #white rice #Disgusting tomatoes #bean sprouts #sesame oil #cucumbers #dried beans

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06.22.2020

Delicious lunch and it wasn’t even a request lunch day! Karaage, a delicious bonito and cabbage salad. There was white rice and a nice healthy bowl of kinpira gobo!

#japanese food #school lunch #white rice #burdock root #konyaku #carrots #bamboo #bean sprouts #cabbage #bonito #karaage #chicken

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06.19.2020

A nice, solid lunch. A tempura cake of fish and veggies. A decent salad of seaweed and cucumbers. Finally, a potato and pork dish to eat with rice.

#Japanese food #School lunch #Potatoes #Pork #Peas #Onions #Cucumbers #White rice #Tempura #Fish cake #Seaweed

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06.18.2020

Today I left school a little hungry because there was no way I was eating a salad specifically called “tomato salad”. Nope. But I did eat the mushroom curry and barley rice. There was also a delicious sumomo plum!

#japanese food #school lunch #barley rice #curry #mushrooms #onions #carrots #Disgusting tomatoes #eggplant #cucumbers #plum #fruit