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'Foreign food' in the bento

'Foreign food' in the bento By Geoff Botting Sapio (July 11) The boxed meal known as bento is one of Japan's top cultural icons. Packed neatly in an aesthetically pleasing way, bento contain such national dishes as miso soup, tofu or tempura pieces. Many are adorned by a red umeboshi plum...

Posted to Food & Cooking (Forum) by Maneki Neko on 07-09-2007
Re: All about KOMBINI

jodan ja nai: One other "plus" factor of the Japanese Kombini is the courteousness of their staff. Unlike here in the Philippines, the staff here (for seven-..., in particular) are unprofessional and sometimes insensitive to customer needs. Well, I guess that only goes to show how the "service industry...

Posted to Food & Cooking (Forum) by Maneki Neko on 03-22-2007
Re: All about KOMBINI

Today, I tried Mini-stop's onigiri. I was excited to try it because it looked authentic, minus the nori wrapping. Their onigiri comes in 4 flavors: adobo, barbecue, meat loaf and sisig. I got BBQ because they didn't have adobo. Unfortunately, it didn't taste so well. The rice was bland, eventhough it...

Posted to Food & Cooking (Forum) by Maneki Neko on 03-07-2007

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