Yesterday was the last work day for May so that means the last day of school lunch for May as well. This month there was way too much fish on the menu. I think fish is OK for the most part (I have to be OK with it if I am living in Japan), but it is not something that I want to see on my plate everyday in the teachers’ room. School lunch fish also flat out frightens me sometimes because there is a 50 – 50 chance that I wont be able to eat it all either because of the flavor or texture. Due to Golden Week and my mom’s visit, there are some missing pictures for this month.
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- fried bread covered in cocoa powder and a miso based vegetable soup with udon.
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- shrimp spring rolls, seaweed salad, and mabodofu (tofu with ground meat)
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- pacific saury with a miso and raddish sauce, nikujyaga (meat and potato), frozen piece of pineapple
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- pork and kimchi, miso soup, and plain yogurt
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- kinpiragobo based side dish, five-stripped yellow tuna, miso soup
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- kinpiragobo based side dish, taro root stew, a piece of melon
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- fish filet (to make a sandwich), cabage and sausage sautee, corn soup
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- menchi-katsu, miso soup, takikomi rice
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- meat sauce with noodles, cabage sautee, two slices of melon
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- congridae (garden eel), miso soup with lots of tofu, takikomi rice
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- squid nuggets, asparagus and sausage sautee, chile con carne
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- hamburger steak with raddish, miso soup, chocolate pudding
Thankfully most of the fish this time was delicious (I actually really liked the garden eel). I usually never question what is on my plate and this is the first time I actually researched into what I ate this month. I kind of wish I hadn’t, but now I know there are a lot of different types of food that I can eat and like. I bet that had I known before hand what was on my plate, for example the garden eel, I would not have touched it. I have learned that you just don’t ask before you eat something new. Although, I wish I had asked my boyfriend what was on my plate when we went to a Chinese restaurant. Would have saved me from eating the most disgusting thing I have ever had in Japan: boiled jellyfish.
