Kyuushoku for 29 June

Tuesday

Bread roll（小パン）

Milk（牛乳）

Seasoned udon （かやくうどん）

Onion croquette（玉ねぎコロッケ）

Tuna salad（ツナサラダ）

898 Kcal

38.2 g of protein

 

Before school today, the tea lady read off the menu to me. She does this every time I come to this school. She tries to speak English when reading the menu to me, leading to some great translations. Today she explained that we were having “Japanese spaghetti” today for lunch. I had no idea what she was talking about. I thought she meant some sort of fish sauce with fish egg spaghetti creations that you see in the restaurants sometime. Turns out, she meant udon. I guess if you make spaghetti 10x thicker and cook it until it’s so doughy you can choke a cat.

The udon was actually pretty good. I usually don’t like udon since it’s so chewy, but it wasn’t too bad today. Plus the soup they put it in was good.

Whatever a “croquette” is, Japan does it pretty well. If it’s fried, Japan has perfected it. This is a good general rule to follow.

The tuna salad was good. I think American tuna salad tends to be something like mayo and relish and tuna. Japanese tuna salad is literally tuna and salad. Today the salad was cabbage and cucumbers in a mayo-esque dressing. I have to say it was good.

5 shishamo