Baked Masala Dory [お弁当]

This mealbox of Baked Masala Dory came with jasmine rice and stewed curry vegetables.

Masala is a kind of spice mix originating from the Indian subcontinent.  

I'm not sure of the spices mixed for this masala, however it had an interesting fragrance coating the dory fish pieces without any accompanying heat.  And dory is a reliable fish that seldom goes wrong regardless of the marinate.

To my gleeful surprise, there wasn't the usual layer of grease at the bottom of the box when I finished my meal, and I didn't feel particularly thirsty either, unlike how I felt after eating the other mealboxes from the same company.

Still, I thought there were 2 areas where I could have enjoyed this mealbox more:

1. the curry vegetables could have been stewed far longer, especially the cabbages.  If I wanted crunchy vegetables, I would have opted for a salad instead.

2. the rice wasn't quite well done, and it seems like it wasn't jasmine rice but a mixture of jasmine rice with broken rice grains.  It was quite obvious that some of the rice grains were complete and longish while others were very short and slightly gooey.