The Japanese bento box, more formally known as obento, is at its most basic level a kind of boxed lunch. But that can seem like we're selling it short. Bento takes a simple meal and elevates it by ...

The story focuses on the relationship between a middle-aged Japanese salaryman (Toshimi ... s father has the responsibility of cooking bento lunch boxes for her to take to school.

By making clean lines and designs, the box looks pleasing and colorful. Another tip is to mix something fun into the rice. For my son’s lunch bento ... Tada is a Japanese food journalist ...

🐧 To complete your lunch add some lettuce, carrots, cucumber, sweetcorn, tomatoes, grapes, cheese... whatever you fancy 🥗 Make some flavoured sushi rice as above, by adding your vinegar ...

Grilled salmon and chikuwa (tubular fish paste cake) isobe-age are standard ingredients in lunch boxes ... making bento around 2016 during her seven-year stay in India. She returned to Japan ...