Tokyo Giants baseball food is beautiful
Check out the beautifully prepared box-meals served at Tokyo Giants baseball games, including a hamburger bun branded with a bold serif number one. Link (via TokyoMango)
Check out the beautifully prepared box-meals served at Tokyo Giants baseball games, including a hamburger bun branded with a bold serif number one. Link (via TokyoMango)
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It's a little disconcerting to see the word "Harvest" on the box, superimposed over a baseball "field".
I hear tobacco juice is a great fertilizer.
Please forgive my total lack of couth, but what is the white stuff with black seeds on it and a yellow ping-pong ball in the middle? Is it something I should recognize from a ball game or from a Japanese restaurant?
I wish I could have seen a larger image. Clicking on one of the images on the site just gives you the same image in a pop up window. Foo.
And yet, you wouldn't be able to appreciate the look of it because you'd be too busy performing elaborately rehearsed cheers.
That strange white stuff is rice. Those are most likely roasted sesame seeds. The yellow ball could be just about anything. Most likely it's vegetable or maybe a confection.
I'll bet it's a pickled plum.
In that same box with the rice and pickled plum... do I see a takuan in there?
You do see a takuan in there, you do, you do!
Pickled Takuan is quite tasty. Thinly sliced and mixed with some wasabi it packs quite a zing!
Mmmmmm... Wasaaaaabi.
Isn't takuan by nature pickled? I'm going to have to try a takuan at some point. I'll probably be able to find some in one of the Oriental markets in Haltom. They sell some killer wasabi.
Funny story about that place- the first time I went when I was younger, with a Vietnamese friend of mine, I almost ate the offerings at the shrine. Something stopped me, though, when I was looking at it (convinced that the food was 'sample' food); I was looking at the display and then I felt clearly a sense of "No, this is not for you," - when we left I asked about it and my friend's family laughed and explained and said they were very glad I hadn't done so. Lest I fall over dead in retribution.
Isn't takuan by nature pickled?
Not so much by nature as by a lifetime of hard drinking.
I was certain he'd somehow acquired liquor in the womb. I suppose that's still in the 'lifetime' and not the 'by nature' category.
Real wasabi or the green colored horseradish kind?
Both, depending on which you visit / what time / if you can navigate the aisles. The stores there are fantastic and have an enormous selection. There are big open plastic boxes in the back with raw fishes, live fishes, assorted slimy things in brine. All sorts of stuff, and a lot of freshly dead things.
The smell of the fish / meat section is terrible, though. It permeates the store but you get used to it after forgetting about places like Target exist (and it smells better than Wal*Mart on any day).
"womb"?
Primordial sludge?
It is a slab serif.
Primordial sludge?
One might refer to one's own mother that way, but...
I'll have you both know that alcohol is very useful below 3,000 meters as both antifreeze and fuel. I've almost replaced all the ammonia.
Cthulhu's left nostril then.
white rice, black sesame seeds and pickled plum.
pretty much standard with most bento boxes.
the equivalent of the baloney sandwich on white bread with processed cheese slice
Except with some lotus root on the side.
you like renkon?
I had one a few years ago on a Japan exchange trip. They aren't the best tasting things in the world, but they're still pretty good. The awesome stuff is reserved for the few specialty stands around the stadium.
The bun branding isn't completely unnecessary. No, not at all.
Technically it's the "Yomiuri Giants", even though their home is Tokyo.
Umeboshi.
I was there a few years back and ate some suspicious food. Here a kid enjoys
sushi at the park.
Those look pretty good. Train stations in Japan also have the same thing called eki-ben. Speicalized bentos (boxed lunches) that showcase locally produced food. Most of them are quite fancy and have some great packaging, some are even self heating.
Here's a few I ate last spring break.
http://sleepytako.blogspot.com/2008/04/eki-ben-and-other-eats.html