Today (Saturday), my son needs a bento because he attends a lecture class in the morning and participates in soccer club activities in the afternoon, unlike normal normal Saturdays, when he only participates in club activities in the morning.
今日（土曜日）、息子は午前に講習会を受け、午後にサッカー部の部活をするので、弁当が必要です。普段の土曜日だと、午前に部活だけに出るので必要ないのですが。
So, my wife made a bento for him.
というわけで、妻が息子の弁当を作りました。
2 + 3 = 5 slices of gyoniku (fishmeat) hamburger (pan-fried this morning), simmered kiriboshi daikon (made last night), atsuyaki tamago (thick rolled omelet) (made this morning), store-bought frozen spinach; and
stir-fried ground pork + finely chopped pickles (made two days ago), ume katuso, wiener sausages seasoned with ketchup (made this morning)
魚肉ハンバーグが2 + 3 = 5切れ（今日焼いたもの）、切り干し大根（昨晩作ったもの）、厚焼き玉子（今朝作ったもの）、市販の冷凍ほうれん草、それと、
豚の挽き肉＋刻んだ漬物を炒めたもの（二日前に作ったもの）、梅かつお、ケチャップ味のウインナーソーセージ（今朝作ったもの）
Let me remind you that this is a place to show our commonplace bento; this is no place to show off fabulous bento.
前にも言いましたが、ここは私たちの極普通（ごくふつう）の弁当を見せる場であり、素敵なお弁当を見せびらかす場ではありません。
So much goodness in just one bento! I have bought in Japan several boxes in the same series as the chopstick box above. Mine are yellow, but also checked pattern and very cute.
ReplyDeleteSissi: My son's chopstick box was... bought at a 100-yen shop!
ReplyDeleteSo, do you still believe that there is some magic in bento making? At least for my wife and me, a bento is just a collection of leftovers, store-bought foods, and some other dishes made quickly in the morning (laugh).
Just read an article in a big german newspaper about Pausenbrot - the german version of boxed lunch for schooldays. 15 minutes preparation: 3 sandwiches with different kind of spreads (cheese, sausage, bacon),some small snacks as fruit pieces, vegetable sticks, yoghurt or Wiener or a candy bar. And this is called a very time consuming preparation and an elaborate lunch. What would they say seeing your bento, way better.
ReplyDeleteI know! My square yellow box too ;-) (the same logo too... and I have bought several cute cotton bags there to put the boxes... in general I have bought dozens of things in several daiso shops). It's surprisingly good quality (as all I have bought in the 100 yen shops: the ceramic bowls with some patterns have already survived so many meals and dishwasher sessions... next time I will buy half a luggage of bowls and plates for 100 yens).
ReplyDeleteYes, I still think there is magic in a bento box! (Kiki's comment is the best illustration of what "equivalent" we can have here... I have never had even such an "elaborate" lunch as a child).
Kiki:
ReplyDelete>What would they say...
They might say, "Yuck, we definitely prefer sandwiches with different spreads!" (laugh)
Sissi: It's a small world! My daughter's is a pink, transparent one, bought from a non-Daiso 100-yen shop.