Bento from Nakae @ Tatsugo

Sunrise from Taiyo-gaoka

Sunset in Sani

Start with Bento topic.

In Amami, I find there are lot of places where you can buy bento. There are not so much convenience stores you can reach, unlike other places in Japan, however this unique situation build up the "Bento Island".

Only I call it though...

In Tatsugo City, there is main store called "Shigeno Tamazato-ten" which sells bento and other glossaries. But this time, I will focus to "Nakae", which locates just front of Shigeno.

When I pass through these stores, there are lots of people go in and out around Shigeno, however not much people around Nakae. It is very obvious that Shigeno gets much customer than Nakae. Despite of this situation, Nakae survives long time and even recently newly refurbished, meaning there should be regular customer whom very fond of Nakae.

I entered the store with this hypothesis, and as a result I think I found a clue.

Front view

 

Cozy bento space of course smaller than Shigeno.

Free miso soup & curry in soup server

Not much left even right after 12 o'clock

croquette sold out & rice ball hand made in the store

Makunouchi (left, 546JPY), Hamburg (right, 398JPY)

Overall flavoring is light which I found it good in Amami more than 10 years ago, and now hard to find. However in Shigeno you can find rich taste which you can imagine else where in Japan.

This light taste is the clear difference from Shigeno.

Hamburg is very nostalgic Japanese mama hand-made style, which means meat is mixed with many ingredients. And the meat is pork, as Amamian style.

Vegetable menu and rice are also well made, yummy!

Definitely, I became a big fan of Nakae right away.

I envy Tatsugo people can enjoy 2 stores every time.

In Sani, sharing among neighbors happens regularly:

This time 2 kinds of  young green onions for my kitchen garden came from the owner of the garden next to me.

Okura and bitter gourd on the left side are from my garden, probably the last lot. They are basically the veges during summer, but they are still surviving somehow.

I hope both kinds of green onions grew well!