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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).
Spam musubi is a snack and lunch food composed of a slice of grilled Spam sandwiched either in between or on top of a block of rice, wrapped together with nori in the tradition of Japanese onigiri. Spam musubi are commonly sold in convenience stores packaged in plastic boxes.
A typical home made Bentō lunch box. It usually contains rice and a variety of side dishes that go well with rice. Bentō, boxed meals in Japan, are very common and constitute an important ritual during lunch, beginning around the time children reach nursery school.
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Peel potatoes, rinse then slice into 1/4" rounds. Place in a pot, cover with water then allow to soften; approximately 15-20 minutes. Heat oil in a large frying pan then add onions. Drain potatoes ...
Another example of Osechi in three-tiered box Another example of Osechi, casual type. Osechi-ryōri (御節料理, お節料理 or おせち) are traditional Japanese New Year foods. The tradition started in the Heian period (794–1185). [1] Osechi are easily recognizable by their special boxes called jūbako (重箱), which resemble bentō boxes.
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.
Jūbako (重箱, lit. "tiered boxes") are tiered boxes used to hold and present food in Japan. [1] 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 ...