#white rice
Mum’s home-cooked Spicy Chicken with Caramelized Onions and stir-fry hairy gourd (Benincasa hispidavar.chieh-qua) or 毛瓜 in Mandarin. The matchsticks sized hairy gourd is cooked with minced pork and prawns to give it sweetness.
After dinner snack of Durians though I can’t remembered what varieties they belonged to. The king of fruits is creamy and sweet, just the way my mum like it.
From the hole in the wall economy rice stall in Chong Pang Food Centre, came this pack of Cai Png(菜饭). I always love their gorgeous and delicious fried chicken drumstick which is still warm and crispy. Also in the box are earthy stewed mushrooms and an over easy egg.
Mum frequently buy the Pork & Shrimp Dumpling SoupfromChoo Chiang Roasted Meat Noodle House(珠江烧腊面家). I love sinking my teeth into the firm and plump dumplings filled with seasoned minced pork and crunchy shrimps. Yum, so satisfying…
Had to run an errand at Sun Plaza in the late afternoon so might as well buy back dinner. Mum is not hungry so I bought Vegetarian Rice takeaways from the food court for my sis and myself. Picked the usual dishes of mock sweet & sour pork, curry chicken & potato and assorted vegetables stir-fry for sis. Me, I chose crispy fried dumpling, mock rendang chicken and vegetables stir-fry. The staff even offered me a bowl of herbal vegetarian soup.
Mum’s pack of Economy Rice(菜饭) from Chong Pang. She only picked two dishes of sweet & sour pork and sautéed bok choy. For me, she chose the same sweet & sour pork dish with a steamed fish fillet drizzled with shallot oil over white rice.
Since mum went to the market early, most of the economy rice stalls were still preparing the dishes so she bought home half a Roasted Duck. Rather than getting the flavoured rice, she opted for the healthier plain white rice which has no oil in it. I preferred their more robust dry chilli paste rather than the watery version which they always try to include in the takeaway.
Dinner is from the Vegetarian stall in the recently opened food court in Sun Plaza. Here, you got mock sweet & sour pork, stir-fried gourd and a braised bean curd. The next box comes with preserved Chinese mustard (梅菜), stewed potato and mock curry chicken & potato.
Also from the same stall is this VegetarianRojak. I wondered what they substituted for the usual prawn paste used in making the sticky sauce here as this local snack tasted as good as the real McCoy.
It’sDinner Time and here are what I had for the evening meal. After slicing the bitter gourd into thin slices, mum seasoned it liberally with salt, leaving the mixture to stand for a while before washing away the excess salt. Here she stir-fried it with eggs, prawns and minced pork. Three pieces of fried hand shaped fishcakes; one of each of us.
I normally shown you the chopped up Fried Boneless Chicken Cutlets so here are the uncut dish. Mum buy these deboned whole chicken legs, marinate them for a few hours in the fridge. After that she dust the meat with sweet potato flour and deep fry it. She will also prepare a ketchup based sauce, made with adding a little sugar and water to dilute it for drizzling over the fried chicken.
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.
07.02.2020
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.
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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.
06.23.2020
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.
06.15.2020
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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06.10.2020
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.
06.08.2020
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.
06.04.2020
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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06.02.2020
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!
05.15.2020 + 05.18.2020
Salad repeats again. I tend to do this when making my own meals. Get a bunch and then eat the same thing for days in a row. Friday saw a repeat of the potato salad and lotus root salad. Though there was a new noodle salad along with it, glass noodles. Quite good. I also had cheese stuffed meatballs as well.
On Monday I had curry. I made a ridiculous amount of curry on Thursday. Enough for a week of lunches. So this will be the same lunch I have all week.
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05.11.2020 / 05.12.2020
We’re back at school baby (whether I think that’s a good idea or not). The stupid virus has gotten in the way of this little project but we will persist! For the month of May I’m bringing my own lunch but I purchased most of it at the supermarket. Karaage, tofu and spinach salad, potato salad and lotus root salad. Finally white rice.
As you can see on the bottom photo, Tuesday’s lunch was basically identical. However I added on some furikake to the rice.
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04.09.2020
While hashing out a ‘work from home’ scenario I did have to go to work at City Hall for the rest of the week. I purchased a bento lunch box on this day from a small shop.
Tofu pocket, white rice, orange, daikon salad and tuna sashimi.
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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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