Kyuushoku for 17 December

Thursday

Bread Roll（小パン）

Milk（牛乳）

Chinese Stew with tofu（豆腐の中華煮）

Sautéed rice vermicelli（炒めビーフン）

Dried potato cookies（いもかりんとう）

917 Kcal

42.3 g of protein

This Chinese stew thing is not one of my favourites. It’s not exactly bad, but it’s just not that good. There’s some squid parts, little shrimp, tofu, cabbage, corn starch, bamboo shoots and a whole lot of quail eggs. When I first got here, I ate a few of the quail eggs, but I gave up. I absolutely hate hard-boiled eggs, and these miniature hard-boiled eggs are even worse. The worst thing that can happen is if one of these nasty things breaks open in the stew and you have boiled chalk dust (quail eggs) floating around in your soup. The kids love them though and if I am ever eating lunch together with them, they fight over who gets to eat the quail eggs. This is one of the only things in kyuushoku I will just throw away without eating. One time a very passive aggressive teacher announced to the whole staff room, “Well look here! I can’t believe someone would throw away such delicious quail eggs. What a waste of absolute perfection in culinary history.”

The dried potato cookies are made from sweet potatoes, so they were pretty good. I’ve yet to have anything made from Japanese sweet potatoes that isn’t amazing. I’m not sure if kyuushoku has had the vermicelli before though. They made it up like chow mein or something. It was a delicious escape from the quail abortions sitting in my bowl.

3 Shishamo