My mother and I had an excellent Japanese lunch in Osaka, Japan.
First our server showed us the menu of the lunch, called
Midousuji-Bento. It consisted of nine dishes in a traditional Japanese cuisine style. The first dish,
Sakizuke, or appetizer was Pumpkin Tofu. How pretty and delicious!
Since this was a Bento-lunch, from the second to the eighth dishes, including a simmered dish (
Nankin pumpkin,
Satoimo potato, and wheat gluten, or
Nama-Fu), a fried dish (
Tempura of crab leg, sweet potato, green pepper), a steamed dish (
Chawanmushi or savory custard pudding with various kinds of mushrooms, a grilled dish (freerange local traditional pedigree chicken with
Miso sauce),
Sasimi,
Miso-soup with
Tofu, and
Kuri-gohan or steamed rice with chestnuts, etc, were served at the same time, not one by one. How gorgeous!
The ninth dish was dessert - pear with pomegranate.
The lunch's theme was "October." It charmed us with the seasonal ingredients beautifully.
