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2021 Lunch Program

 2021 and we are still in Covid restrictions...
​Thanks to the Keiro's Grant we are still serving lunches to our members! 

Nov 20 - Penne Pasta, Minestrone Soup & Salad

October 30 - Cocido Soup, Rice and Roll + Halloween Candy​

September 25 - Chicken Katsu & Miso Salmon

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Today's meal included Penne pasta from Charlie's Trio, Cookie from Costco, Jeannie's homemade soup, small salad and Hawaiian sweet role. 
This meal was prepared by Ron and Cindy Dyo. Packed by Nolan & Ashley Dyo and Jean Kawakami. PNS would like to acknowledge Fish King Seafood for providing the delicious salmon at a discount for this lunch.
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This meal was prepared by Ron and Cindy Dyo. Packed by Nolan & Ashley Dyo and Jean Kawakami. PNS would like to acknowledge Fish King Seafood for providing the delicious salmon at a discount for this lunch.

August 21 - Hiyashi Chuka Ramen

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The PNS lunch crowd was treated to a homemade Hiyashi Chuka Ramen lunch prepared by Mrs. Miyuki Takeda and her small but dedicated crew at her home. 
Mrs. Takeda had been the lunch coordinator for the PNS meals for many years so it was a treat to get to enjoy one of her special meals.
Her dedicated crew consisted of: JoAnne SooHoo, Michiko Iwamoto, Mabel Iwamoto, Laura Iwamoto, Jeri Takeda, Bryan Takeda and Jeannie Toshima.
The yummy cookies were baked by Mrs. Takeda and Jeri Takeda.

July 31 - Mama Musubi Bento

July 10 - Ron Dyo's Chicken & Vegetables with Crispy Noodle lunch

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Mama Musubi made our bento today. It had a musubi with miso-chicken,  karaage chicken, salad and takuan. Many thanks to Wade Utsunomiya for making the arrangements for today's lunch!

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Ron Dyo cooked up a delicious chicken and veggie filled meal to enjoy on a very hot Saturday! He even prepared some homemade cucumber tsukemono. The noodles softened up, just right, after pouring the "gu" over the noodles. Yummy.

​Thank you Ronny!


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June 26 - Many thanks to the Pasadena Buddhist Women's Association for sponsoring PNS for a delicious Unagi-don meal. Many thanks to Dan Nakauchi of Hilo Fish for donating the seaweed salad we included with the meal.

It was a very hot Saturday, so Unagi was a perfect meal to enjoy. The Pasadena BWA used their Keiro grant to provide this meal.

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JUNE 7 - Today's meal was prepared by Ducks Restaurant in San Gabriel.Their restaurant is known for the very tender cutlets and delicious sauce. Today's lunch included their delicious Tonkatsu, rice, spinach goma ae and tsukemono. Included were also a healthy Fuji apple and not so healthy Oreo cookies. 

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May 22nd - Ron Dyo went fishing with some friends to Lake Havasu and brought back fresh Striped Bass to panko-up and fry for this week's lunch. He also prepared the cabbage tsukemono, cucumber sunomono, kimp0ira gobo and 3 delicious sauces to accompany the meal (tartar sauce, shoyu/mustard and teriyaki). Served with chashu it was a complete surf and turf lunch. Hope you enjoyed it!

​Thanks to all the delivery folks and to Ron Dyo and Cindy for preparing the food!

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April 28th featured Hakata Ramen from ShinSenGumi, Alhambra for our delivery service. This meal was sponsored by the Pasadena Buddhist Women's Association who used Keiro Grant monies to help purchase this special ramen for the PNS membership.

Many thanks to all the BWA members that helped pack the ramen for delivery and to all the PNS drivers who helped deliver to homes.
April 10th - Bento purchased from California Rice Center, homemade miso soup and daikon tsukemono from Ron Dyo was topped off with manju donated by the Pasadena Nikkei Seniors Craft Class.

Ron and Cindy Dyo also donated the instant ramen to all lunch recipients.

Potted plants were delivered to all of this year's Beiju Babies. Please visit the page dedicated to them.

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March 20th - Homemade Penne Pasta and Kitchen Sink Salad prepared by Ron Dyo and his crew. Today's meal had enough pasta for two meals. The salad had a little bit of "everything" inside and was delicious. We also got little cups of fruit or jello and a bag of Milano cookies. Thanks Ron and Crew!
​We sent out over 120 lunches today. Thanks to all the drivers who delivered these lunches!

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March 13th - Pork Curry with Rice, Fukujinzuke, Seaweed & Sesame Salad and Famous Amos cookies. Food was prepared by Jeannie's Crew that. included Dona Mitoma, Marvin Inouye, June & Nancy Chin, Kyoko Gibbs, Diane Hisayasu, and Ron Toshima. Many thanks to Hilo Fish for donating the delicious Seaweed and Sesame salad. We hope everyone enjoyed this nutritious addition to our lunch today. Seaweed is one of nature's "super food" that help our gut bacteria keep us healthier. As an afterthought, we should have served GREEN curry for St Patricks Day....maybe next year!
We sent out over 120 lunches today. Thanks to all the drivers who delivered these lunches to our members.



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February 6th was our first delivery/pick-up for 2021. It featured a chicken pot pie from Moffetts in Arcadia. Green salad and a bottle of Mrs. Takeda's homemade miso dressing. The appetizer was a soba-salad inari treat. Soba was donated by Gary Kawaguchi (Upper Crust Enterprise and Nanka Seimen). Each household got a box of PPE masks and bottle of hand sanitizer, donated by Gary Lim of The Fish Guys. The candy was donated by Joann Lewy of Lunas Restaurant.

We hope everyone enjoyed their lunch. We always appreciate feedback.

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February 20th lunch was prepared by Ron Dyo and his crew which includes Cindy, Nolan & Ashley Dyo and Jeanne Kawakami.
Today's lunch included a generous portion of "Caldo de Guajolote" (Mexican Turkey Soup), Spanish Rice, a bolleto and a Cara Cara orange.

As a bonus, everyone got a "Red Envelope" which had a "2021 Year of the Ox" California Scratcher and chocolate coin candy. Thanks to PNS for sponsoring this Lunar New Year's gift....and many thanks to Wade Utsunomiya that filled up all the envelopes to send home with the delivery.

Let us know if you won anything on your "lucky" Scratcher!

Pasadena Nikkei Seniors • Mailing address: 595 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 101. Pasadena, CA 91103
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