Kyuushoku for 27 May

Thursday

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Fried bead with bean dust（小揚げパン）

Stewed Chinese vegetables（八宝菜）

Rice vermicelli salad（ビーフンサラダ）

Cherry tomatoes（ミニトマト）

784 Kcal

38.4 g of protein

The kyuushoku centre demands that kids write a review of each meal. They write it up in a notebook and then collect it with the dishes. It’s kind of like this blog but with blind devotion. In that notebook, they also request items for future lunches. The number one request is always this fried bread thing with bean dust. But why wouldn’t it be? It’s like a peanut buttery donut. The problem with this request is that everyone is blind to the fact that the kyuushoku’s other dishes on “donut day” are always terrible and really clash.

The stewed Chinese vegetable thing (happousai) was stewed but not very vegetable-y. Mine was full of boiled quail eggs and squid. Japanese Chinese food is always thickened with something that makes everything have the texture of slime. American Chinese food tends to be thickened with lard and MSG. I’m not sure who wins.

The salad thing is...a sad excuse for a salad. It’s pretty much impossible to eat with chopsticks or a spoon (the only two kyuushoku approved utensils). The taste isn’t bad, but everything is washed away by the overpowering vinegar taste at the end.

The actual bread isn’t so bad, but I wish they’d stop insisting that it’s better fried. It’s perfectly fine as a dessert, but not part of a meal.

The only reason this meal gets any shishamo is because of the tomatoes. Thankfully the kyuushoku centre ran out of oil before they got fried too.

1 shishamo