Instructables has a great post on the do’s and don’ts when you make bento boxes. It is very nicely written with illustrations and images. This “instructable” (their name for a tutorial) attempts to provide the basic design principles, resources for obtaining the necessary tools, and some of the traditional rules of making a beautiful and delicious bento box. I was both inspired and learned a lot from this tutorial.
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Flickr is a place for people with special hang ups. Like those who are into bento boxes. Like me. Ah. I wIsh my lunch looked like this:
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Hello Kitty is loved and hated. This has led to her being depicted in a lot of weird situation and on a lot of different products. This bento box though, is one of the most amazing ones I have seen.
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I went hunting for more of the bento box artists out there. This gallery has lots of really beautiful examples, some of them so lifelike that they are almost freaky. I have this thing for things with eyes. Here are several examples. I love the octopus!
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Cookingcute.com is a website run by a vietnamese girl called Ngoc, who (up until february at least) spent a lot of time cooking fantastic bento boxes. She teaches us that the secret to packing bento every day “without driving yourself batty from lack of sleep (or chronically showing up to work late) is good planning. - I can’t say that I always plan well, but when I do, I can whip up a tasty bento in about 30 minutes. Sure, it takes longer than packing a sandwich and chips, but overall it’s healthier, less expensive than eating out, and a cute bento can really brighten your (or a loved one’s) day.” Here are some of her creations:
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We have had several examples of beautifully created bento boxes on Sushi or Death. Here is another one, but this one is not that eatable.
In this beautifully crafted bento box she has seaweed salad with sesame seeds, steamed potstickers and eggrolls, rice with nori flakes and a vegetables (carrots, cucumber, and a lime), four sushi rolls, and in the center a little wasabi and pickled ginger…. I am getting hungry here…
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This woman, Junka Terashimam, is a true artist! The lunch boxes she creates for her kids really belongs in a museum. We’ll pretend we are an online Louvre today:
E-bento.com (in Japanese only) also has an amazing collection of bentos. I love their beautiful artwork and borderline insane attention to detail.
Bentō (弁当 or べんとう) is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickled or cooked vegetables as a side dish.
Containers range from disposable mass produced to hand crafted lacquer ware. While bento are readily available at convenience stores and bento shops (弁当屋, bentō-ya?) throughout Japan, it is still considered an essential skill of a Japanese housewife (Hey!? What about the skills of the househusband? Huh?) to be able to prepare an appealing boxed lunch.
Is it Windows loading sushi - or sushi loading Windows?
This is an old image, I know, but it is still really funny, so I wanted it on here too. I think I want to add a category that I will call bento box art! I love the creativity that goes into a lot of these peoples lunch boxes! This is my first post in that category and is one lunch box that must have taken a while to make. If I were Bill Gates I would have been very proud! He inspired to food art!
