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A typical bento bought from a grocery store. A bento (弁当, bentō, Kyūjitai: 辨當) [1] is a Japanese-style single-portion take-out or home-packed meal, often for lunch, typically including rice and packaged in a box with a lid (often a segmented box with different parts of the meal placed in different sections).
Ekiben vendors serving train passengers in 1902. The word ekiben comes from "eki", meaning railway station, and "ben", which is short for bento (box meal). [1] Before the introduction of rail travel, travellers would prepare their own meal or buy meals kept in wooden bento boxes sold in tea houses.
The boxes are often used to hold osechi, foods traditional to the Japanese New Year, [2] or to hold takeaway lunches, or bento. A sagejū (提重, lit. "portable jūbako") or sagejūbako (提げ重箱), is a picnic set of jūbako in a carrier with handle. [3]
A makunouchi bento. Makunouchi (幕の内弁当) is a popular type of Japanese bento which consists of mostly rice along with fish, meat, pickles, eggs, vegetables, and an umeboshi (a salt pickled plum). There are also other kinds of food such as a chestnut-rice, sweetfish sushi, and meat-and-rice-casserole forms.
A kyaraben containing rice balls decorated to resemble pandas. Kyaraben or charaben (キャラ弁), a shortened form of character bento (キャラクター弁当, kyarakutā bentō), is a style of elaborately arranged bento (Japanese boxed lunch) which features food decorated to look like people, characters from popular media, animals, and plants. [1]
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