Today’s lunch with some quail eggs and summer savory as well as some fresh mozzarella cheese and basil from the garden. Click through for details.
This past weekend, I grabbed my friend A and zipped over Gardena way for some mad bento action. The Marukai Forum on Artesia was our target. A wanted to expand her bento options a bit. Me, I was looking for something new, something cheap, and a few bits for my new travel kitchen (which I’ll discuss later). If you haven’t been to this location of Marukai, just do it. Maybe bento is not your thing. Fine. They also have Mexican Coke, Noh Hawaiian spice mixes (I’m particularly fond of their teriyaki burger mix), every possible variety of Spam and Pocky known to man, a seafood market that would make a fisherman blink in disbelief, and on and on. We, however, went for this…
Would you believe in the end even this wasn’t enough? No. We even went down the street to Normandie where there’s a Marukai 98 Cent store. That’s where I picked up the sweet little bento box bag pictured above, along with a few other necessary lunch bits.
It was a breezy day and A and I still had plenty of energy left. We could smell the ocean in the wind, so we followed it.
Manhattan Beach was surprisingly empty. Blissfully empty. Peacefully empty. Everything looked like silver. We dug our toes in the sand for a bit and didn’t even think about bento. I don’t even think that we thought about food. We just took a few shots then put the cameras down and soaked it all in. Because despite what I preach here - it’s not all about the food.
