March 26th, 2008
Tonkatsu obento
Here is another obento from our favourite local obento shop. This is this shops speciality, Tonkatsu. A fillet of pork crumbed and deep fried. Served with shredded cabbage, mustard and tonkatsu sauce.
Here is another obento from our favourite local obento shop. This is this shops speciality, Tonkatsu. A fillet of pork crumbed and deep fried. Served with shredded cabbage, mustard and tonkatsu sauce.
This is the Japanese version of a takeaway fisherman’s basket. Fish fillets, oysters, a ridiculously long prawn, with pickles and rice. All made fresh and in the box for about 800 yen ($8). I think that is great value.
What would you call this? As you can see from the terrible photo, it is quite small - easily fitting in my hand. With a brown baked pastry crust and a filling of pork and onions. If it was steamed I would be more sure but baked? It came from my local “French” bakery and […]
I picked up this ekiben in Sendai recently. Sendai is famous for a few things, in particular beef tongue. Without knowing it ( I was in a rush and just chose the nicest box) I landed some gyu (beef) tongue. This was fine slices that had been sauteed in a mild miso sort of sauce. Really […]
My 2 year old daughter bought her classiest ekiben (railway obento) last weekend. The box is the shape of an old steam train, and strangely was made of ceramic. I wonder if they really thought about the practicality of clunking around a ceramic lunchbox on and off Shinkansens?
Anyhow the contents were great (I can say because as per […]
What do you get for 250 yen, about $2.50, today. I can buy almost 2 liters of gas, almost a starbucks coffee, or a train ticket across Tokyo. That is, unless you go tho the Obento shop at the bust corner of Asakusa right next to 2 of the entrances to the Tsukuba Express.
At this […]
My 2 year old daughter got the obento of her dreams last week. Imagine a cute little beautifully presented lunch in a hard plastic reusable Hello Kitty. She was over the moon. In the end she ate hardly any of it, but that is what being 2 is all about. But she did love the box and […]
I took a holiday that involved a shinkansen bullet train journey last week. On the platform I grabbed the nicest looking obento to eat on the way. By chance I stumbled on a self heating beef obento.
The deal is, you pull a string that is sticking out of the cardboard box and after 7 minutes […]
Tonight was a rush dinner, takeaway obento. And a nice one at that.
As you can see from the photo there is an assortment of food in there and a pile of rice.
It included potato salad and egg roll omelette. Some pickles, and a miniature dry oden selection. In the main compartment was some tempura piman […]
On Sunday I found myself cold and miserably hungry. I rolled down the street in search of something, anything that was hot and filling and before I knew it, there stood the 7-11 konbeni. Inside was everything a stomach could desire but it had to be hot so I had a choice between Oden, hot […]
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