hapa bento

Short post.

Saba Man’s bento is filled with shoyu chicken, broccolini, sprouted rice, beni shoga (pickled ginger), takuan (pickled radish) and nori (toasted seaweed).

Notice that I ran out of lettuce?  Also, I couldn’t find my camera so I took the photo with my phone which didn’t turn out as well as I like.

I also feel a little awkward posting a bento without mention of the Japan earthquake.   But I can’t find the words.  It’s all so shocking. 

If you are on twitter, I recommend following @makiwi (Maki of Just Bento) as she has been translating Japanese news for us.  Her efforts are incredible; timely and succinct messages that are nothing short of amazing.

I applaud her tireless efforts to pass along factual information along with personal notes.  What an incredible woman.

She recently tweeted ” for bento fans: scenes of tons and tons of onigiri being handed out to survivors…” 

That tweet really touched me.

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Just catching up with this very simple bento from a few days ago.   We both had sudden changes to our schedules so swift bento preparation was in order. You probably recognize the shoyu chicken!  It’s my one of my “go-to” recipes and can  be quickly prepared while the rice is cooking.  I was done before I knew it!

Threw in edamame and leftover gobo kimpira and voila! 

We have bento.  I added furikake, yellow takuan and sprigs of enoki mushrooms to keep this lunch from being too boring.

Very rush-rush… I didn’t even bother with baran but I think it turned out okay.

Haha!  Looks like I’m still on the stainless steel kick!

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Our carb-fest continues! 

You can make an omelet out of almost anything… why not an omu-chowmein?

Shoyu chicken and the last (for now) of the amber cup squash are perfect compliments.

And since it’s  near Halloween, I placed a token “Jack” cut from a watermelon radish.

Green onions and nori provides the finishing touch.

I made a huge batch of shoyu chicken for my bento-stash.  And this bento contains two drumsticks. Really!

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The rice in this bento is very tasty and my current favorite!

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