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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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!
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06.17.2020
Decent lunch. The daikon salad had seaweed in it that was quite tough. There was also some salty little fish with almonds. Then a nice pork donburi and that was delicious to go along with white rice.
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06.12.2020
Another request lunch!! It was karaage again. The side salad was a spinach, peanut and then little baby sardines. There was a nice miso soup and then wakame rice. There was also a chocolate crepe for dessert.
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06.16.2020
Absolutely delicious lunch. Fried iwashi fish, cucumber and cabbage salad, white rice and a massive bowl of some sort of potato and tofu salad. There was also a tomato but you know I didn’t eat that.
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06.15.2020
A nice light lunch, very good stuff. White rice and a good cabbage vegetable soup. There was a baked egg dish which was similar to a quiche. A side salad of wakame seaweed and finally a banana.
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06.11.2020
Today was yummy. A tofu steak with a ground meat sauce. There was a ton of hijiki salad. A lot of it! Then barley rice. The other seaweed salad was not the greatest, just soggy.
06.10.2020
Lunch was okay today. Potato and bacon, a harusame salad, and finally a bean soboro don. Pour it over rice for a delicious meal.
I didn’t eat the Jelly dessert.
06.09.2020
Delicious school lunch. Sesame chicken, a tomato soup that I would call “hamburger soup”. A side salad and barley rice.
06.08.2020
Decent lunch today. Salmon and a salad with Mayo. A gross tomato and then a potato miso soup. Then just white rice. The konatsu fruit was extra.
06.05.2020
Request lunch day #1! Because schools were closed for two months we missed out on a lot of request lunches. So Friday was the first request lunch of the month. Typical for them we had karaage and wakame seaweed rice. The soup was new though, a nice consomme soup. Very light. The side salad was a carrot one with egg. A chocolate pudding for dessert.
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06.04.2020
Pretty okay lunch. Some hits and some misses. We’ve got cheesy potatoes and meatball soup. There’s also a bunch of little dried fish and beans. Maybe too many little fishes. White rice to finish us off.
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06.03.2020
Kimchi Fried rice, meat and tofu. Then there’s an orange and aside salad of corn. It was pretty good!!
06.02.2020
Not the greatest lunch. Can’t stand green pepper salad. Didn’t eat it. The fried fish was good though and also there was harusame. That was good.
06.01.2020
We’re back to school lunches!
Today was curry chicken, a cucumber salad, vegetable soup with weiners and pumpkin and white rice!
04.08.2020
This was my last school lunch because I expressed to my supervisor that I did not feel safe coming into work.
White rice, white fish, wilted cabbage side salad. A tomato stew type dish with tofu and potatoes.
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04.07.2020
School started again. Not a good decision and schools are set to close from Monday again. However, for some bizarre reason, school continued for the remainder of the week.
Today’s lunch was white rice, a salad of wilted cucumber and daikon radish with little fishes. Finally buta-don (pork and vegetables eaten over rice). An orange for dessert.
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