掲示板 Forums - 私の給食。My school lunch.

Since I have swathes of time at work I translate my school lunch menu and ingredients. It just occurred to me I could put it up on here each day as maybe someone may have a modicum of interest. If you feel I have made mistakes in translation, have at it.

May 13th.

• ご飯
• 味噌つみれ
  • すり身、やき豆腐、生姜、味噌、でん粉、豆腐、大根、人参、長ねぎ、減塩強化味噌、

• レバー入りメンチカツ
  • 牛肉、玉葱、豚レバー、豚肉、でん粉、醤油、ケッチップ、パン粉、菜種油

• ごま和え
  • 小松菜、白菜、醤油

• Cooked Rice
• Miso Fish Ball Soup
  • Surimi, grilled tofu, ginger, miso, starch, tofu, daikon, carrot, spring onion, reduced salt fortified miso
• Menchi katsu with liver
  • Beef, onion, pork liver, pork, starch, soy sauce, ketchup, breadcrumbs, rapeseed oil
• Goma dish
  • Komatsuna, hakusai, sesame, soy sauce

May 17　(my birthday lunch)

• ご飯
• ピリカラすき焼き
  • 豚肉、醤油、焼豆腐、しらたき、玉葱、白菜、長ねぎ、たもぎたけ、ごま、ごま油、醤油、豆板醤、生姜、にんにく、りんご
• 揚げポークシュウマイ
  • 豚肉、牛肉、玉葱、でん粉、醤油、小麦粉、菜種油
• あさりの佃煮
  • あさり、ごぼう、にんじん、玉葱、醤油、水あめ

• White Rice
• Spicy sukiyaki
  • pork, soy sauce, grilled tofu, shirataki noodles, onion, Chinese cabbage, spring onions, golden oyster mushroom, sesame, sesame oil, soy sauce, Chinese chili broad bean paste, ginger, garlic, apple
• Fried pork dumplings
  • pork, beef, onion, starch, soy sauce, flour, rapeseed oil
• Clams boiled in soy sauce
  • clams, burdock, carrot, onion, soy sauce, glucose

May 19

• ビビンバ
  • 胚芽洗米、大麦、カルシウム米、醤油、豚肉、焼豆腐、メンマ、長ねぎ、生姜、にんにく、人参、ほうれん草、もやし、ごま、豆板醤、ごま油
• 大豆コロッケ
  • じゃが芋、大豆、玉葱、パン粉、小麦粉、菜種油
• フルーツサワー
  • みかん缶、パイン缶、桃缶、梨缶、夏みかん缶、ヨーグルト

• Korean Mixed rice
  • unmilled rice, barley, calcium rice, soy sauce, pork, fried tofu, boiled bamboo shoots, spring onion, ginger, garlic, carrot, spinach, bean sprouts, sesame, Chinese broad bean chili paste (toubanjan), sesame oil
• Soy croquette
  • Potato, soy bean, onion, breadcrumbs, flour, rapeseed oil
• Fruit sour
  • Canned mandarin, canned pineapple, canned peach, canned pear, canned summer mandarin (Chinese citron), yoghurt

It reminded me that when I was earlier visiting japan when my vocabulary wasn't that good, I was still translating kanji as if it were chinese, the carrots in the menu is interpreted as "ginseng" in chinese. We were wondering where was the ginseng in as we stirred through the ingredients of the bento set.

The translations are alright, I think. Ingredients translation is a big pain as each region name them differently. I had to dig into wikipedia to find out the regional name variations. I think that should be the same whether it is in english, japanese, or chinese (or Korea?). A good example of naming confusion is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I'm of the ethnic group, but I'm not from China. Most of the Japanese chinese （中華） cuisine like ramen, gyoza, and 麻婆tofu names, are still relatively close in meaning and naming. Daikon 大根, is one of those that are different. Known as 菜头 in some other places in asia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

Given Japan's interaction history with china from Tang dynasty to Song Dynasty, a lot of cultural exchange and food should not have changed that much over the thousand-odd years.

May 27

It started off as a sunny day in Sapporo, but it will be raining later which is great for the garden. Debated not riding to school on account of the rain later but did anyway as if I get wet I will just be at home. Big weekend of planting veg in the garden coming up.

Enjoy your weekend.

• ご飯
• 豆腐のオイスターソース煮
  • 豆腐、豚肉、ピーマン、長ねぎ、人参、たけのこ、生姜、にんにく、醤油、オイスターソース、でん粉
• ひじき春巻
  • たけのこ、人参、豚肉、ひじき、醤油、でん粉、オイスターソース、小麦粉、菜種油
• ナムル
  • ロースハム、ほうれん草、もやし、人参、醤油、ごま、ごま油、豆板醤

• Rice
• Boiled tofu in oyster sauce
  • tofu, pork, green pepper, spring onion, carrot, bamboo shoots, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, oyster sauce, starch
• Hijiki spring rolls
  • bamboo shoots, carrot, pork, hijiki (seaweed), soy sauce, starch, oyster sauce, flour, rapeseed oil
• Namul
  • roast ham, spinach, bean sprouts, carrot, soy sauce, sesame, goma oil, Chinese broad bean chili paste

May 31

Morning all. Walked and trained to work this morning on account of the expected rain.

I've been thinking about the episode of Chimudondon last night.

The heroine (if I may) gets shown up in the Italian restaurant for not having any knowledge about anything and ridiculed for never reading the newspaper. She gets told to bugger off and learn something then maybe she can come back.

In my experience as a teacher here I find that to be evident in so many students. They can do maths that is well past what I can understand and science that is impressive. It comes to pointing to Fiji on a map or talking about the pros and cons of nuclear energy and they always come up short.

Just my two cents.

Anyway, it's curry day. Everyone's favourite.

チキンカレーライス

• ご飯、鶏肉、じゃが芋、玉葱、人参、セロリ、りんご、生姜、にんにく、グリーンピース、小麦粉、カレールウ、ウスターソース、ケチャップ、醤油
• ごぼうチップサラダ
  • ロースハム、キャベツ、きゅうり、とうもろこし、ごぼう、菜種油、醤油,　ごま油
• パイン缶

• Chicken curry rice
  • rice, chicken, potato, onion, carrot, celery, apple, ginger, garlic, peas, flour, curry roux, oyster sauce, ketchup, soy sauce
• Gobo chip salad
  • roast ham, cabbage, cucumber, corn, burdock, rapeseed oil, soy sauce, sesame oil
• Canned Pineapple

Curry is the best. I remember when I worked on a skifield in Tochigi in 1993. We used to sneak down in the middle of the night to the kitchen and get big bowls of nice hot curry. Magic. I'll check out the curry manga. At he moment my manga is Golden Kamui.