Today marks my first official Bento lunch.
Bento is a food staple here in Japan. It's a boxed lunch, plain and simple. You can find them almost everywhere and they come with nearly anything imaginable inside of them.
Here's what Michael had to say about his lunch.
Most of the food we have eaten here in Japan has been oishii! That means delicious for you nihongo challenged readers. Some of it has been a lesson in taste bud differences.
We found a store in the mall yesterday that made one thing. Pan-chocolate. Bread with chocolate baked into it. I was turned onto this at San Fermin in Spain this summer and it's my number one (ichiban) favorite.
Tonight Michael and I are staying with the Watanabe family of the Bunsui rotary club in Tsubame. Their grandson is amazing and could power Manhattan Island indefinitely with as much energy as he has.
We've spent the evening eating the most delicious food, cooked by Watanabe-san's okusan, wife, and are relaxing listening to some jazz and making me wish I had my guitar.
We have had a wonderful night and even with my limited nihongo vocabulary, we have all been communicating as easily as I have with anyone in Japan.
Great people, great food, and great music. What more could a person want?
1 comment:
I think it says a lot about the type of person I am that I was most excited by the fact you found a shop which only sold pan chocolate. That is one of my dreams, you know. Sounds like you are all having the time of your lives. Pass on my regards to the rest when you see them. And save me a pan chocolate :)
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