February 2, 2016

White rice. Roasted soybeans. Some kinda fish. Bean sprout/spinach. Soup with pork, tofu, daikon, japanese onion, carrot, yamaimo. 200ml Hokkaido milk.

This lunch was quite tasty. We got little packets of roasted soybeans - You're supposed to throw them at oni (devils) to keep them away. They're part of the celebration of Setsubun, sorta the start of spring by some lunar calendar, i dunno read the wikipedia article i haven't had the chance yet. :) and my junior high students weren't able to explain much other than you throw them at oni and eat one for each year of your age.

Also the soup had "yama imo" (mountain potato) in it, which I assumed was some kinda potato - i was close, its a japanese yam. The texture was cool, the inside of each chunk was like creamed potato, the outside was a bit tough. tasted similar to potato. it was quite nice.