Bento

Don't put bell peppers in the bento.

A bento is a small meal made of boiled rice and seaweed, that is sold in cheap wooden boxes.

"Melvin, what I miss about living in Japan is the food!" "Like what, Rod?" "Like the 'onigiri' and 'bento boxes' and 'matcha cakes' from ordinary markets."

Number 51, your makunouchi bento is ready. Sorry for causing you to wait.

Number 51, your makunouchi bento is ready. Sorry for making you wait.

Number 51, your makunouchi bento is ready. Sorry for the wait.

In my stint in Japan as a software engineer, I often ate lunch with my coworkers, like Tamaru-san, Matsuura-san, Takahashi-san, and Jeff who was a corpulent half-Japanese. The lunch could be ravishing bento boxes in the office or an outing to some beautiful restaurant.

Oh well, looks like even more nori bento today.

Today, too, will be a nori bento day.

Today, too, I'll be eating a nori bento.