Saturday, July 11, 2009

School Lunch Special


Some kind of sushi: cooked fish sticks with pickle, rice, and seaweed wrappers. Pretty tasty

Fried chicken coated in what looks and tastes like corn flakes, with vegetable soup, bread, and weird Japanese style salad.


Omelet so cheezy it tastes like Mac 'n cheeze without the noodles, plus vegetables and rice, soup, and more random bread.

Although all these lunches are good, they are somewhat eccentric. Japanese people don't really know what to do with bread, so they randomly include it in meals without any intention of you making a sandwich and without giving you any toppings for the bread: they expect you to eat it by itself. I think this comes from their own practice of eating rice plain by itself: they equate our bread to their rice, without realizing that we like food to have flavor.

Japanese people also make strange salads: corn, carrots, and onions with a dash of tangy vinegar seems to be their idea of a salad. Although good, (and much better in my opinion than a lettuce-based one), it doesn't seem to be based on any Western tradition of salad.

Cheers,