Premonitions of Bento Mania...

Highschool has started for Esther yesterday.

And the first thing she said when she returned home yesterday was: "They don't have any Coca-Cola at the canteen. They have Dr Pepper and various energy drinks, but no plain Coke."

Hmmm. Dr Pepper is British. Most people I know say that it tastes similar to Cherry Coke. I used to like it a lot. I think that it tastes faintly of violets.

I would never have guessed that it was popular enough around here to be featured by a school canteen ;)

Esther also said that the air in the canteen was hot and stifling, and that there are about 2000 students at the school, but the canteen holds only about 60 people.

So yesterday and today she was lucky enough to be able to eat at the canteen. But I secretly asked myself if I'd turn into one of those crazy mums that get up at 4 in the morning to prepare fabulous bentos for their kids.

I tried looking at various bento blogs with her. But she lost interest rather quickly.

These are the things she said she would like in her bento so far: Strawberries, cherries, edamame and rice.

Not quite a sufficient variety to create more than one bento out of that.

To be continued.

Prawns and a fountain

We came back from a vacation in Sri Lanka a few days ago.

Food was mostly buffet style, and as I've said before, I'm not very fond of posting pictures of food which I have got myself from a buffet.

And if the food wasn't buffet style, it didn't look so spectacular.

I have one photo of a dish Esther ordered on the way to Sri Lanka at Dubai Airport, though, which I found rather impressive, even if the prawns are not straight ;)
 

 Hmmm. It looked more impressive in reality ;)

For a certain reason I would like to post photos of one fountain in Zurich-Oerlikon as well.

 

The two figures (a man and a woman) are each holding a fish between their legs, the water spouting from the mouths of the fish.