Bento (弁当）means more or less like home-packed meal or take-out lunch box.
Shokuji (食事) itself means meal.

Well, this is the random version of my home-made bento and shokuji, and of course it’s not a real pure Japanese style. It’s the combination of katei-ryouri(家庭料理）-simply home-cooked meal.

Description from up to down, left to right.
(1) Indonesia Style Nasi Goreng – Fried Rice with some beans, carrot, tomato and cucumber, frozen shrimp with the topping of fried onion and of course the chilli sauce. ^^, I brought along one apple too.

(2) Two hearted-scoops of brown rice + beans, steamed meat dumpling (シュウマイーshuumai)、Chinese style mapo toufu (bean curd) with scallion and shrimp.

(3) My own-version bento’s ready to be taken out.
(4) Fried egg with scallion, red+green paprica, and shrimp.
(5) Sayur asin (I don’t know the english, salty veggie? ha ha) with boneless chicken breast.
(6) One flower-scoop with the Japanese dried topping sake(salmon) and nori(seaweed) + salmon meat with mayonnaise

(7) Kitsune Udon(famous Japanese cuisine-wheat based noodle, topped with aburaage(sweetened deep-fried tofu pockets). It’s when I ate out, after tiring running from the morning class from one campus to another campus.

(8.) Veggie(can be any green veggie for me) with tomato and shrimps, usually I always use oyster sauce and potato starch (katakuriko-片栗粉）to make it sticky.

(9) Tuna Mayo Onigiri- Japanese rice formed into oval/triange/roll, often wrapped with nori.
I used tuna and mayonnaise, it’s the failed home-cooked, still practise to make a beautiful neat onigiri, these ones are messy, but absolutely tasted good. ^^)v

(10) Bean-sprout (moyashi) with tomato, scallion, and oyster sauce. ha ha.
(11) Fried egg with tomato only.

(12) Chinese Chicken Herb Soup, it’s really recommended to strenghten body immune. My mom used to cook it for us. For woman also, it’s recommended to add like *pai feng wan or with **tienchi tablet( I never used tienchi,actually. :p)

(13) It’s one of the ingredient included in the Chinese Chicken Herb Soup. My mom told me its name is Gou Qi Zi in Mandarin (Fructus Lycii Wolfberries/Goji Berries), it’s rich in vit C, contains large amount of vit B1,B6, E, and it’s good for eyes. I now sometimes eat it as snacks.

(14) It’s when I ate at home, scoop of rice with 10) and 11) together.
(15) and (16), the software repeating the pic again, ha ha..

So, do you notice how simple my cook is? and how I love shrimp? ha ha.. As for meat, I often eat chicken meat, it’s more healthy I think.

While I have more time, I think that I’ll learn how to cook Japanese cuisine, and since the new dormitory dominates with International students, I guess I’ll learn another country cuisine too, hopefully.. ^^ 

*Pai feng wan is chinese traditional herb, has the indication for health, malnutirion after childbirth and regulation menstrual ailments. I drink this regularly.
**Tienchi is the herbal remedy for high cholesterol, blood pressure or over-obesity. It’s good to promote blood circulation, relieving swelling, and so on.