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Though these bento box lunch ideas stray from traditional Japanese foods, the recipes (like carrot tabbouleh bowls and lemon-roasted potatoes with chicken and spinach) are still supremely portable ...
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).
In Japan, this usually refers to school meals served as lunch. The origin of school meals provided in Japan is in 1889, where an elementary school provided free meals for children who could not bring food to school. Post–World War II school meals usually had a loaf of bread and skimmed milk, although rice returned to school meals in 1976.
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]
Usually red and very sour, often served with bento (弁当) lunch boxes or as a filling for onigiri. Tsukudani (佃煮): Very small fish, shellfish or seaweed stewed in sweetened soy for preservation; Sunomono (酢の物): vegetables such as cucumber or wakame, or sometimes crab, marinated in rice vinegar
Ekiben served in a decorative box designed after the E7 Series Shinkansen Rail travel in Japan boomed after the Second World War , and with it the popularity of ekiben . Sales of ekiben was further spurred on in the 1970s by Ekiben Hitoritabi , a drama based on a manga about a person who travelled round Japan to taste the ekiben in different ...
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After four morning classes, at about 12:30 PM, students are sent to pick up their homeroom's lunches from the school kitchens. [6] Lunches are typically served in bento boxes, with small portions of a variety of freshly prepared foods. These include "a whole range of meats, fishes, vegetables, and sea plants.