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Alice's Lunchbox

Alice is the new kid in her grade 1 elementary school class. With the school canteen out of commission, parents must prepare lunchboxes for a while- and, unfortunately, Alice knows exactly what this means! The lunchboxes that Bryan makes are vastly different to those of her classmates. Her pleas to her father to make her a cute Japanese lunchbox fall on deaf ears, with Bryan seeing his sandwiches as representing their British heritage. A family crisis looms until Itsuki has an interesting idea...

BJ Fox's Must Try Items!

Seaweed Clippers
Seaweed Clippers

"With seaweed clippers you can make many different things." ―Keiko

BJ Fox

I remember my mother often telling me not to play with my food when I was young, so I do not know what she would make of the seaweed cutters! You can cut out all sorts of shapes and make a wide variety of faces – I am pretty sure I saw Tsuneo’s frown in there too! My next challenge will be to use the shapes from the seaweed cutter to make the face of a slightly confused foreigner who has come to Japan and wondering why these things exist in the first place!

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