Kyuushoku for 26 Jan

Tuesday

A taste of the Harima area

Carrot bread roll（小キャロットパン）

Milk（牛乳）

Soumen noodles and vegetables in broth（にゅうめん）

Chicken cutlet（チキンカツ）

Lotus root salad（れんこんサラダ）

858 Kcal

38 g of protein

Every now and then the lunch ladies want to mix it up and put something into the bread roll. They’ve had apple, pineapple, sesame seeds and now carrots. They also made the bread sweet, so it was like Japan’s version of carrot cake maybe. I don’t really remember the carrot roll showing up in kyuushoku before, but when the gym teacher walked into the teacher lunch room today she shrieked, “OMFG, it’s carrot bread day!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been waiting so long for this!!!!” She’s the same gym teacher I see dancing alone, counting out the beats during sports festival time. I’m not sure how together she really is.

I thought the chicken cutlet would be a whole fried cutlet, but instead it was little nuggets of fried cutlet cuts. They’ve done this before to pork. Those lunch ladies just like to mix it up.

I think the “Harima area taste” was the soumen noodle soup. Soumen are thinnish noodles resembling vermicelli. I thought that the soup was a standard kyuushoku soup with noodles in it though. Maybe the Harima area just doesn’t have much to offer. It wasn’t bad, just nothing to offer up as your area’s specialty.

It’s hard to describe the taste of lotus root, besides just the word, “amazing”. When I first came to Japan, I got on this lotus root kick where I included it in almost every meal. Lotus root has kind of the same texture as water chestnuts. Not exactly as crunchy though. Needless to say, I enjoyed the salad.

5 shishamo