{"id":275,"date":"2004-09-02T19:32:27","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/09\/kyushoku\/"},"modified":"2004-09-02T19:32:27","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T19:32:27","slug":"kyushoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/09\/02\/kyushoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyushoku"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFried chikuwa (fish cake) in curry (yello) and aonori (green) batter.
\nBeansprout, carrot, and cucumber salad.
\nChicken based soup with carrots and gobo (burdock root).
\nGohan (rice) with an umeboshi (pickled plum).
\nNori (seaweed).
\nIn Japanese schools, ranging from hoikuen (nursery school) to chugakko (junior high school), children are usually provided with meals called kyushoku. Depending on where the school is located, kyushoku can range from factory produced pre-packaged slop (a usual complaint of city JETs) to locally produced balanced and healthy meals. Luckily, my school fell in the second category and I decided to document what I ate at school on the 13 separate occasions that I remembered to take pictures at lunch.
\nThese Kyushoku were made by women who live in Ubuyama and planned out by the nutritionist, Mrs. Umei. All of the meals are carefully planned out to provide a balance of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other important dietary components. When I first started eating kyushoku I could only finish half of the meals and had to take the rest home. It is commonly observed that teachers gain weight after being transfered to Ubuyama because of the size of the servings (this is a matter of meal size, not of meal content).
\nIt is interesting to note that the Japanese school system started encouraging the students to incorporate new things into their diet after the U.S. occupation. Milk, bread, and meat products were uncommon if not completely absent before the end of the war in the Pacific. All of the old people I have talked to about this tend to agree: the Japanese started to grow bigger with the change in diet, and today’s Japanese youths are some pretty big and healthy kids. If you don’t believe me go to any high school’s judo practice and then see what you think.
\nNote: Every day, milk is included as part of a balanced meal.　The milk is produced and packaged locally in Ubuyama.
\nBe sure to check out School of Rice<\/a>, a new site authored by me and my brother. It will chronicle some of the riced out rides that we happen upon and other things that fit under the paradigm of the School of Rice.<\/p>\n


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\nRoasted breast of chicken with a parsley yogurt sauce.
\nBroccoli florets.
\nCream of kabocha (pumpkin) soup.
\nWhite bread and margerine.
\nBonus: Stainless steel spork.
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\nTeriyaki squid steak.
\nLima bean\/kidney bean\/chickpea\/cabbage salad with a vinagarette dressing.
\nA variation of chicken soup.
\nMelon pan (melon bread: this refers to the shape, not the flavor. It is basically Japan’s version of pan dulce, meaning that the bread has some sugar in and on it).
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\nStewed potatos, carrots, gobo, renkon (lotus root), and snow peas.
\nHalf of a banana.
\nCarrot, cabbage, beansprout, and spinach salad with peanut-based dressing.
\nMugigohan (rice with buckwheat mixed in).
\nAkashiso furikake (red shiso rice topping).
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\nBeef curry and rice.
\nIka (squid) and cucumber salad with shiso dressing.
\nWatermelon.
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\nTomato third.
\nHard boiled egg.
\nChampon ramen (Nagasaki-style)
\nWhite bread with chocolate “pudding” sauce.
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\nUdon with curry sauce.
\nCucumber,carrot, and macaroni salad with mayonaisse.
\nHot dog bun-type bread sans hot dog.
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\nCucumber salad with kimchee base dressing.
\nCup-o-ham-n-egg.
\nGohan and some sort of chop suey.
\n\"kyushoku10.jpg\"
\nTakana gohan.
\nAgetofu (fried tofu) with a seaweed\/dried daikon garnish.
\nGrapefruit.
\nVegetable soup.
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\nSpagetti noodles with ham, carrots, cucumber, and egg slices and a rice wine vinager sauce.
\nWiener.
\nWatermelon.
\nWhite bread and margerine.
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\nPotato omlette (tasted like a Spanish tortilla).
\nCherry tomatos.
\nVegetable soup.
\nKinako Agepan (Fried bread dusted in kinako).
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\nHayashi rice (hayashi rice is like curry without the kick. I think of it as a cross between marinara and Japanese curry.).
\nSquid, cucumber, brocolli, and carrot salad with an aoshiso dressing.
\nCornbread muffin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fried chikuwa (fish cake) in curry (yello) and aonori (green) batter. Beansprout, carrot, and cucumber salad. Chicken based soup with carrots and gobo (burdock root). Gohan (rice) with an umeboshi (pickled plum). Nori (seaweed). In Japanese schools, ranging from hoikuen (nursery school) to chugakko (junior high school), children are usually provided with meals called kyushoku. … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}