K's Bento-ya
Today, I got a special treat for lunch. A friend purchased a delicious looking bento for me! I don't know what I did to deserve it, but who was I to question a free meal. Since I didn't have my camera handy, I used a friend's camera to snap the picture...
This bento was packed with food, all for less than US$5.00! How can you beat that value? Here's a list of the contents if you can't tell by the photo (clockwise from left): three pieces boneless fried chicken, fried tofu with kamaboko (fish cake), inari sushi (or cone sushi), musubi (rice ball with nori), maki sushi (rolled sushi), a piece "molded" sushi, luncheon meat (no, not Spam®), hot dog and a small corned beef hash patty. Oh...and on top of it all...a wonderfully huge shrimp (boiled I think)!
It was a lot of delicious food! After eating half the bento, I had to give up. I was so full that a nap would have been so nice just then. The portion of the bento which was not eaten at lunch time was eaten as a very late afternoon snack.
Once I find out where this place is, I'll post more details....
UPDATE AUGUST 11, 2004
As Ryan commented, this is definitely a bento from K's Bento-ya in Waipahu. Here's their information:
K's Bento-ya
94-164 Awalau Street
Telephone: 808.671.0160
*Oishii~* It looks BIG & delicious! ( awww I'm hungry now)
Oh I was just wondering...how much roughly would the same bento cost in Japan??
Posted by: Keith | August 11, 2004 at 02:51 PM
That's definitely a large bento from K's Bento-Ya in Waipahu. Love it, love it, love it.
Posted by: Ryan | August 11, 2004 at 04:22 PM
Hi Keith,
Welcome to the site. This bento was definitely oishi... =) ...and way too big! The way I figure it, this bento comes to about ¥554 (Japanese Yen).
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for dropping by. You're right! My friend told me that she purchased this bento from K's in Waipahu. I'm definitely going to have to check out their other offerings.
Posted by: Reid | August 11, 2004 at 06:23 PM
I haven't actually been to K's in a long while (I've been lucky enough to have people pick it up for me lately), but I'm pretty sure all they sell is a large bento and a small bento. It's a cute little old-school operation.
Posted by: Ryan | August 12, 2004 at 08:26 AM
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the information. I'll keep that in mind!
Posted by: Reid | August 12, 2004 at 07:17 PM
I always eat @ K's Bento. Their regular is about $4.25 (up from $3.90) but they always seem to run out by 12 noon (sometimes, if you're lucky they'll have some by 2pm, but that's cutting it).
I never eat the large, but the small always fills me up, no matter how hungry I am.
FYI: they close on Sundays and Mondays, but they open from 5:30am till they run out.
Posted by: adrian | June 24, 2006 at 12:26 PM
Just want to update the site...K's bentos (large & small---without the shrimp, inari, & luncheon meat) are still great and still can't beat the price. $4.75 for small & $5.75 for large.
Posted by: Nik | December 27, 2008 at 06:40 PM