Not Enough Of The Good Stuff

The funny thing about today's meal is that the main dish was listed as "uma" (うま煮), which theoretically means horse, but I knew that's not what we were going to have. When I asked some students what was up with that, they told me that "uma" actually stood for "umai," which means "great."


Well, isn't that just great!? (Can you hear the sarcasm in my voice!?)

The soup was just OK, not great.

The salad, which included some bits of squid (Hooray, that's not ham!), was good, not great.

The main dish was also good, not great. I was certainly happy about the two big chunks of potato, but not so wild about the slices of bamboo, and definitely not thrilled about the beans (which I passed on).

Overall, this was just your average meal.

Total points: 4

(Here are the answers to yesterday's trivia questions: 1) The plate for my bread; 2) chopsticks; 3) the paper spoon for the dessert. What do they all have in common? They were all useless! You can do your part, too, to conserving resources.)