Yoshikawa Koko...

tuesday i visit my satellite school, yoshikawa koko. they have obento lunches delivered everyday with an odd mix of foods, always surprising. they are about $3.50. here's this week's spread...
the meat is deep fried weiner, as they call it, and a chunk of fish. this week's was boneless thankfully. it's amazing to watch them dismember a whole fish and strip the head and bones from the edible parts with chopsticks, a skill i've yet to acquire. then clockwise from bottom left: sweet candied beans. marinated tofu flavored with carrots, shimeji shrooms and chicken skin. pickled daikon radish, which has a spicy sweet thing goin' on similar to ginger. a tofu pouch full of a veggie mix and another unidentifiable, but tasty, brown sauce. a cross-section slice of lotus root which is delicious, it has the texture of an apple even when pickled or marinated and is great in stir frys. and burdock root salad. i've been seriously battling my distaste for mayonaizu lately cause it's on or in everything, even when you least expect it. i was able to choke down some of the root salad. burdock has become one of my favorite veggies and you can pick it up in the grocery here in a ready made salad of soy, carrots, sesame seeds and red chilis. killer.


here i'm waiting at the bus stop with a couple of my students. you should hear them call me miss tiffany. hilarious.