Lunch: uber-healthy if you don’t drench the Mentaiko (baby fish) sauce. Love the soba noodles. This lunch combines my four favorite foods.

Mackerel-goes well with brown, white, jasmine rice or soba noodles
Spinach-steamed, sautéed, broiled–I love spinach
Buckwheat Soba Noodles-buckwheat sounds healthy doesn’t it?
Mentaiko Sauce-I call it Japanese mayonnaise–it goes with everything.

At least once a month, I take the BART and MUNI to San Francisco, Japan Town and shop for Mackerel (San ma) sold in a can at Ichiban Kan (Japan’s version of a dollar store). Then it’s a walk down to Nijiya Market (popular Japanese grocery store) for Mentaiko Sauce and Buckwheat Soba Noodles. It’s an adventure…a long travel from Berkeley, but so worth it!

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