And now for my 'Obento Special' showing off just what kind of hard work goes into lunchtime. Japanese mothers (both those stay-at-home kind and the working variety) take a lot of time to make lunches for their children.
Spaghetti, karage (chicken), rice with little bits of seaweed and the orange stuff on the rice is tarako (fish eggs)
Top right to left: A meatball, piece of broccoli, tamago-yaki (kind of like a cooked egg), then the green slice thing is an edamame bean, a large shrimp and on the bottom ismore sea-weed with katsuobushi (fish flakes) all overtop of rice
Spaghetti with tarako-sauce, edamame beands on picks, two rice balls, two little sausages at the bottom, tamago-yaki underneath kuma-chan (the bear) and the bear itself is a decorative slice of fish-sausage
Two dumplings (with danish flags for some reason), corn, a little bit of salad with a cherry-tomato, a single meatball, the center thing is a potato-dumpling (kind of like those McCain Smiles) and a rice-ball with sesame seeds
Tamago-yaki in the top left, a single meat-ball, shrimp goopy stuff and rice with some form of topping.
A couple of meatballs, a few sausages, tamago-yaki and rice
Rice, karage (fried chicken) and broccoli salad
Cooked bean-sprouds, dumpings, small teeny hamburger patties and rice with hand-cut seaweed
Tamago-yaki, broccoli, sausages, potato dumplings, two pieces of karage, two 'octopus' sausages (pork), three little carrot hearts and rice
Rice, tamago-yaki, shrimp doria and some kind of green gunk
Spaghetti, karage (chicken), rice with little bits of seaweed and the orange stuff on the rice is tarako (fish eggs)
Top right to left: A meatball, piece of broccoli, tamago-yaki (kind of like a cooked egg), then the green slice thing is an edamame bean, a large shrimp and on the bottom ismore sea-weed with katsuobushi (fish flakes) all overtop of rice
Spaghetti with tarako-sauce, edamame beands on picks, two rice balls, two little sausages at the bottom, tamago-yaki underneath kuma-chan (the bear) and the bear itself is a decorative slice of fish-sausage
Two dumplings (with danish flags for some reason), corn, a little bit of salad with a cherry-tomato, a single meatball, the center thing is a potato-dumpling (kind of like those McCain Smiles) and a rice-ball with sesame seeds
Tamago-yaki in the top left, a single meat-ball, shrimp goopy stuff and rice with some form of topping.
A couple of meatballs, a few sausages, tamago-yaki and rice
Rice, karage (fried chicken) and broccoli salad
Cooked bean-sprouds, dumpings, small teeny hamburger patties and rice with hand-cut seaweed
Tamago-yaki, broccoli, sausages, potato dumplings, two pieces of karage, two 'octopus' sausages (pork), three little carrot hearts and rice
Rice, tamago-yaki, shrimp doria and some kind of green gunk