Bento for Him, a Salon Day for Me | My Silent Marriage in Tokyo

His lunchbox comes first. After that, three meals that are all mine. It's been raining in Tokyo for a month now — cool and properly autumn for September, if a little gloomy. I packed my husband's lunch before he left: sweet potato rice, chicken soboro, scrambled egg, and a homemade instant miso soup (miso and dried seaweed wrapped up, ready for hot water). The leftover soboro became my breakfast, folded into a tofu-and-pancake-mix dough and pan-fried until crisp. In Japan we call this mottainai — throwing away food that's still good feels disrespectful, to the food and to the people who made it. Then into central Tokyo for a salon treatment. My husband tells me he wants me to stay beautiful, so I sat there silently chanting "be beautiful." Lunch was a seasonal pho, loaded with spices. By evening I wasn't very hungry, so dinner was a simple soup, made with kasane-ni — layering vegetables according to the yin and yang nature of each food — plus the can of tomatoes I had left over, homemade onion koji, and black beans. Eating light, or skipping a meal, isn't holding back for me. It's listening to my body. If you enjoy my videos and want to support the channel, you can buy me a coffee here ☕ 👉 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/creainc ▶My favorite Items Bamboo steamer→ https://amzn.to/4airnzp Essential Daily Food. → https://amzn.to/4g2DWT9 Clay pot→ https://amzn.to/43ZyCst https://amzn.to/4ePAxoB As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ▶︎Chapter-Turn on cc to enjoy this video in your language. #japan #japanvlog #tokyo #slowliving #japansefood #lifeinjapan #alone #nofriends #japanlife #japanesetraditionalfood #healthylife