Kyuushoku for 14 April

Wednesday

Flower Viewing Festival Menu

Vinegared rice with salmon and corn（サケとコーンの酢めし）

Milk（牛乳）

Squid rings（イカリングフライ）

Vinegared udo root and cucumbers（ウドとキュウリの酢の物）

Young bamboo soup（若竹汁）

Three colour rice balls（三色だんご）

851 Kcal

35.1 g of protein

In Japan, it’s a popular springtime tradition to have a picnic underneath the cherry trees. It’s called “hanami” or just “flower viewing”. Usually the flower viewing is limited to just “drink until you can’t notice all the blue tarps covering any sign of nature you could have seen”. The flowers in question are cherry blossoms. I think they’re about the saddest flower. They bloom their pale pink colour and then the spring wind blows them away before you realize it. For the rest of the year, the leaves are green and indistinguishable from any other tree.

Anyway, today’s menus was supposed to be the menu to match the season somehow.

The rice was good. I don’t know why it needed to have vinegar in it, but I’m not going to complain. I’ll take vinegar over fish head any day.

The squid rings were pretty much what you would expect from something that was fried in the morning and sat around in a glorified Tupperware container until 12:30.

I don’t know what an udo root is, but I liked it. It had the texture of the result of a potato mating with celery. The udo root and cucumbers were mixed with crab and real crab at that.

The soup was pretty plain except for the young bamboo shoots. Those lunch ladies love to give us a thrill.

4 shishamo