Japanese bento box - chopsticks!!

@Drosophila (16571)
Ireland
February 29, 2016 12:28pm CST
I love Japanese Bento box. Today is just the weather for it. I went to my favourite Japanese restaurant for a special bento & miso soup. The bento had: - Egg rolls - Karaage (fried chicken) - Chicken Teriyaki - Salmon katsu - Salads and pickles. The Japanese waitress was impressed I ate the entire box of rice with my chopsticks! Do you like Japanese food? How good are you with chopsticks?
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@much2say (56053)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Feb 16
I'm very good with chopsticks! Well I grew up in a Japanese household - so of course I've used chopsticks all my life . I love a good, assorted bento box!
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@much2say (56053)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Feb 16
@Drosophila I have a smaller version of those big bento boxes - oh, but it's so much easier to just order the food from the restaurant (too much work to make all those individual things!). My friend loves karaage the most too! Just give me anything that goes with rice - my priority is rice - and all is good!
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
29 Feb 16
Yep and this one actually came in a proper wooden box, with layers to take off! Love kaarage!
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
29 Feb 16
@much2say Oh this particular rice in the picture is great! It's sprinkled with seaweed and fish flavouring, I can eat it on its own no problem. The chef is a trained sushi chef and returned to Japan for additional training last year. He came back and the food quality went through the roof!
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• United States
29 Feb 16
I am very proficient with chopsticks, learned how to use them living in Hawaii. We have a take off Japaneses Rest. about 30 mins. away. They are OK, but nothing to brag about. I do love miso soup.
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• United States
1 Mar 16
@Drosophila They started buying left and right after the war. Our landlord was Japanese, quite an interesting guy.
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
29 Feb 16
wow didn't realise they used chopsticks in Hawaii. How long were you there?
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
29 Feb 16
@AbbyGreenhill oh wow no idea thats where the japanese end up! never been to Hawaii, too far away.. will endeavour to go for vacation at least once
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• United States
29 Feb 16
I am okay with chopsticks. If there is food I eat it, no matter with what lolz
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• United States
29 Feb 16
@Drosophila I can use chopsticks Wendy but not like I was born with them in my hand or anything lolz..
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
29 Feb 16
@TiarasOceanView I know what ya mean :D
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
29 Feb 16
LOL! I can related to that!! Though I've yet get use to the eat with hand thing
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@just4him (317241)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
1 Mar 16
Once I can get them mastered, and it takes a while, I'm okay with them. But once I put them down, I need to relearn how to use them all over again. I'm not good with Oriental cuisine. Somehow it doesn't like me very much.
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
1 Mar 16
@just4him ya in that case if you try gluten free soy sauce you'd be fine. Ya most Asian cooking adds soy, if you don't get on with gluten, it won't agree with you. Or you can maybe try something cooked without soy and see the difference. My best friend is gluten sensitive so she always asks the chef for no soy.
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
1 Mar 16
Aww, it might be the soy, if your gluton sensitive
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@just4him (317241)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
1 Mar 16
@Drosophila To my knowledge I'm not gluten sensitive, but I'm not ruling it out either. I seem to do better when I eat gluten free products. I have a phlegm problem that just irritates the heck out of me. It doesn't seem to be present when I eat gluten free food.
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@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
14 May 16
I've had Chinese food but never Japanese. And I can use chopsticks pretty well! I've heard about Bento Box but never had one. Yours looks delicious!
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
14 May 16
It was indeed! would have to go and get another one again.
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29 Feb 16
The only Japanese food I'm familiar with is sushi. The first time i ate it was at a sushi restaurant on a date with a girl of Asian origin. She insisted that I should eat with chopsticks which I with the best of my abilities tried to comply with. I was very nervous at the time because not only was it my first time to eat with chopsticks, it was also on a date! Quite surprisingly it actually went rather well in my opinion. I thought it would be a total mess, that I would keep dropping the food that I was trying to pick up. Although I couldn't pick up and eat the sushi very fast, I didn't really drop anything which really was a success for me.
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
29 Feb 16
Did you get the girl? btw she's mean to you! you know you can eat sushi with hands right?
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29 Feb 16
@Drosophila We became good friends. In regards to her being mean, well, she sure does like teasing me!
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
29 Feb 16
@GenericJohn oh you got friendzoned xD Anyways, you should try Ramen, Yakisoba, and Dons. They are just as good
@sishy7 (27167)
• Australia
8 Mar 16
I'll eat everything in that bento box plus the miso soup... No chopsticks for me, please...
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
8 Mar 16
hahahaha! wasn't expect anyone to eat the chopsticks too xD
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• Austin, Texas
4 Mar 16
I love Asian food which includes Japanese. But I'm lousy with chopsticks. I like the idea of the bento boxes although I've never had one per se. But the food they put in those boxes, I eat as a regular meal. One of my daughters is good with chopsticks.
@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
5 Mar 16
Oh ya it's great! The Japanese version of tapas :)
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@jstory07 (139974)
• Roseburg, Oregon
1 Mar 16
I am not any good with chopsticks at all. Give me a fork to eat with my rice with and I am happy.
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
1 Mar 16
I use chopsticks when I want to show off, but mostly I use spoons :D
• West Haven, Connecticut
1 Mar 16
That sounds amazing and I love asian cuisine and im fond to chopsticks I just cant eat anything but sushi with them, I find eating rice with chopsticks very tedious lol
@DianneN (247186)
• United States
1 Mar 16
I love Japanese food. Yum! So so with chopsticks. Lol
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
1 Mar 16
Yep Japanese food is definitely something to look forward to :D
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@AnneEJ (4917)
• Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, Quebec
29 Feb 16
I had Chicken Teriyaki when we went out on Friday night, prepared fresh right in front of us. I am no good with chopsticks.
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
29 Feb 16
Ya chicken teriyaki is definitely an all time favourite
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• Gainesville, Texas
3 Mar 16
I love Bento boxes and sushi. I have gotten a lot better at using Chopsticks, but have a hard time with big pieces of sushi.
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
3 Mar 16
Bento box of sushi is great too! Used to do a sashimi bento box best ever