foodpics

A small scrap of note paper with ingredients and numbered groupings scrawled on it in pencil.

A rice bowl topped with shirasu (tiny “whitebait” fish), nori, and a boiled egg, with a small quiche on the side.

A table laid with a large meal consisting of (clockwise from the lower left corner): rice; octopus; green tea; orange; a broiled white fish (?); salt custard; condiments; shrimp tempura; hot pot; and white fish (?) sashimi.

A traditional Japanese breakfast of rice, dried nori, condiments, a boiled egg, and miso soup.

A set meal on a tray, consisting of a bowl of sliced beef braised in a heavy sauce served over rice with sections of fresh tomato and a poached egg on top, portions of pickled lotus root, hijiki, kinpira gobō, orange, and miso soup. A small empty glass of beer stands to the side.

A bright yellow vending machine for drinks, with a bicycle loaded with blue panniers in front, and a row of water bottles set out beside the bike and in front of the machine.

A lunch plate with: a salad of grilled tofu, sprouts and shimeji mushrooms; braised pumpkin squash rolled in sesame; fried vegetables; apple slices; pickled myōga; pickled lotus root, carrot, and cucumber salad; and chicken tatsuta-age with miso soup and hot coffee

A blurry photograph of the cover of a restaurant menu reading (in English translation) “Restaurant for Miso Cutlet Deep-fried in 100% Lard” and listing opening days and times with the phone number of the shop

A set lunch of miso cutlet and side dishes

A plastic container filled with homemade potato salad, resting on a Shinkansen fold-down tray.