Tuesday, June 23, 2009

My Mycah's Daily Bento

June 23, 2009

Usually I raise at 4am to do my walking exercise inside the village, but now since the school classes started again I can't do my walking anymore during week days, because I have to cook a lot for our breakfast and prepare the "baon"(necessities taken by a person who goes... like lunchbox or pocket money) of my child.

Although my children are half Japanese, they didn't grow up in Japan, but still they learned few Japanese culture and traditions. Just like this "bento"- a home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine.

A traditional Japanese bentos as I have had known have a 4:3:2:1 ratio; 4 parts of rice, 3 parts of meats, 2 parts of vegetables and a part of dessert. But sometimes I can't follow this procedure, I just packed what ever my children wanted and what we have.

Unlike other high school students, my child still loves to bring lunchbox and don't want to buy anything in school canteen (she's very thrifty you know, but when it comes to dolls she buy it even if it's very expensive). She don't even care if she's the only one left in the classroom during lunch time, but now she said there were 5 students that brought lunchbox too and enjoyed eating with her. She always bring separate bag for her "bento" (for lunch), miso soup thermos (a Japanese soy bean paste soup), juice jar and sandwich (for her snack) that I always prepared (well of course - that's a mothers job with love).

Today I want to show you how I packed the lunch box of my youngest daughter, just a simple style unlike those of professional works that elaborately designed with cut out shapes of meat and veges.

June 8th, 2009 - Monday (first day of school class) no bento yet

June 9, 2009 - Tuesday
Hotdogs designed like an octopus, scrambled eggs with spinach, crab nuggets,
some fish balls, and rice with Furikake (a Japanese rice seasonings)
and carrots (she loves fresh carrots so much).

June 10, 2009 - Wednesday
Scrambled egg with spinach again, shrimps, ham,
squid rolls, baby corns, grapes and
rice with carrots and furikake .

June 11, 2009 - Thursday
Crab balls, breaded chicken breast (I sliced it into stripes to
make it easier to eat
), quail eggs, scrambled egg,
shanghai rolls (usually it 's filled with ground pork but I used tuna fish)
fried tofu, slice tomatoes, steamed Baguio beans
and rice with furikake.

June 12, 2009, Friday - no class, it's holiday ... Phil. Independence Day

June 15, 2009 - Monday
Octopus hotdogs, scrambled egg, small prawns, squid rolls,
chicken nuggets, carrots, cauliflower and
tiny Onigiri ( Japanese rice wrap with nori and furikake)

June 16, 2009 - Tuesday
Ham, salted egg, crab nuggets, crab stick, and
fish cake which I sliced thinly, tomatoes, broccoli, potatoes
and rice with nori (a Japanese thin dried seaweed sheets) and furikake.

June 17, 2009 - Wednesday
Shanghai rolls, scrambled egg, chicken vanilla,
embotido, cubed fish cake, broccoli , spinach on the sides
and carrots and rice decorated with cut out nori.

and this one same dishes for my collage student,
she said she wants bento too this day,
but she wants her eggs filled with spinach.
Sauces should be packed separately.

June 18, 2009 - Thursday
Tuna salad, chicken nuggets, quail eggs,
tocino (sweetened cured pork, a native delicacy),
sliced carrots, rice with furikake and mini siopao for her snack
(she saw that I steamed some siopao so she said she wants it,
so I don't have to make sandwich today.)

June 19, 2009 - Friday
Rice with furikake again, some crab balls, bacon,
chicken pandan, ham, beans, cucumber and baby corns.
(when my child came home after school, she cried without tears to me,
asking why there's only 2 slices of cucumber in her bento, he he he)

again same dishes for "Ate" (elder sister)


June 22 ,2009 - Monday again
Fried chicken dumplings, noodles(pancit canton),
fish(daing na tilapia), slice salted egg,
whole kernel corn with butter, slice tomatoes,
lemon cuts, rice with furikake, mocca cake(no sandwich today)
and for the dessert, a chocolate with crunchy peanuts and soft nougat.

today June 23 - Tuesday
I made sushi filled with crab stick & carrots, I used a molder but my child said it's so big so the 2nd one filled with chicken vanilla, I did it my own to make it smaller but I'm not so good in doing this, then I put in another box a shrimp rolls and chicken pandan balls, with some carrot cuts, and as for the dessert, there's a canister of choco coated biscuit sticks ,it's her snacks too.

So mothers out there start making bentos for your child now, it's not necessary for a bento to be very decorative but children find it enjoyable and love to eat more when it's arranged. And aside from that , you are sure that your child is eating the right and healthy foods. They can save money too.

So mothers, or even anybody who have a husband or a father or any body in the family who's working somewhere, make a bento for them and enjoy making it, use your imagination and have fun.

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BYJ to meet Japanese fans in September

June 23, 2009

Source #1:The Korea times
Home>News>National - June 23, 2009

Korea's 'Yonsama' to meet 100,000 fans in Japan

Korean Wave star Bae Yong-joon, better known by the sobriquet "Yonsama" in Japan, will meet some 100,000 fans at the Tokyo Dome in September, his agent in Seoul said Tuesday, according to Yonhap News.

Bae will meet them on Sept. 29 to promote the anime version of his widely-popular TV drama "Winter Sonata" and another meeting the following day on his essay on the beauty of Korea, his agent BOF said in a press release.

The two fan meetings, to be held at Tokyo's largest stadium, will be broadcast live at multiplex cinemas across Japan.

"Winter Sonata" heroine Choi Ji-woo, widely known as Jiwoohime in Japan, will join Bae for the promotion of the animation.

Bae's essay, the first book to be authored by the popular actor, features his ideas and views on Korean aesthetics. The title of the book has yet to be finalized.

Bae last fan meeting in Japan was in June last year when he promoted his TV series appearance in "The Story of the First King's Four Gods."

Bae gained an explosive popularity in the neighboring country after playing the hero in "Winter Sonata" in 2002, and remains especially popular among middle-aged Japanese women.

2009.06.23

Hmmmmm.... I really envied Japanese fans. They always see and meet my "Honey Baeb"



Source #2: The Korea Herald-Home>News>Culture

Bae to meet with 100,000 Japanese fans

Bae Yong-joon, known as "Yonsama" by his Japanese fans, will meet with an estimated 100,000 this September according to the 37-year-old Hallyu star's management company, Boundaries of Forest (BOF).

Bae is scheduled to hold a pair of events at the 40,000-plus capacity Tokyo Dome on Sept. 29 to promote the animated version of "Autumn Sonata"(they mean Winter Sonata) -- the 2002 KBS drama that catapulted him into continental super-stardom along with a book signing the following day for "The Beauty of Korea," which he penned over the course of a year.

BOF said yesterday "The Tokyo Dome can hold over 40,000 so over a two-day span we're looking at a maximum fan turn-out of around 90,000. If we take the estimated 10,000 that will hopefully attend live satellite broadcasts around movie multiplexes throughout Japan, we're estimating a ballpark figure of 100,000 total."

The upcoming events will be the actor's first "fan-meeting" in Japan since last June, when he was there to promote his MBC fantasy serial "The Legend."


Source #3:And here's the notice from JOB http://www.yongjoon.jp/
Tomato in BYJ Quilt/ freeboard/freeboard #15158 -June 23'09


Greetings, dear family,

We would like to inform you that Bae Yong Joon’s Japan visit in September has been decided.
Upon this Japan visit, two events have been determined.
An event for Animation ”Winter Sonata” which Bae Yong Joon currently challenges as voice actor for first time.
And other event, to introduce the book “Beauty of Korea (tentative)” which he is reporting and writing his experiences on Korean traditional culture and traveling spots.


Animation “Winter Sonata” is already a big topic as Bae Yong Joon and Choi Ji Woo are co-starring as voice actors after 7 years since the drama “Winter Sonata.” It will be first time in Japan for the two actors to stand on the same stage outside the drama.

Also, “Beauty of KoreaI(tentative)” is scheduled to be on sale both in Japan and Korea in autumn.
At the event, Bae Yong Joon will introduce it’s contents himself.


[Animation “Winter Sonata” -another story- event details (plan)]
date: Tuesday, 29 September 2009, open:16:00, start:18:00(plan)
appearance: Bae Yong Joon, Choi Ji Woo, Ryu Seung Soo, Kang Yo Hwan, Lee Se Na others
site: Tokyo Dome (Suidobashi, Tokyo)
organized by: Digital Adventure, Animation ”Winter Sonata” Production Committee
event office: 0570-064-754(weekdays 10:00~18:00)
ticket price: jpy 8,925(tax incl.)
event special site: http://www.yongjoon.jp/ws/


[Beauty of Korea (tentative) publish commemorative event details (plan)]
date: Wednesday, 30 September 2009, open:14:00, start:16:00(plan)
appearance: Bae Yong Joon others
site: Tokyo Dome (Suidobashi, Tokyo)
organized by: Digital Adventure,
event office: 0570-064-754(weekdays 10:00~18:00)
ticket price: jpy 8,925(tax incl.)
event special site: http://www.yongjoon.jp/kb/


Photos credit as labeled
and
Thanks a lot Bae Sisters

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