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Photo: hapa bento

Created by: Helen Pitlick

Edited by: hapa bento, Helen Pitlick, Colin Saunders, Carrie Barr

Tags: Asian, Japanese, Lunch, Asian Cookware, Serveware, Japanese

Translations: 便当盒 (Chinese), お弁当 (Japanese), بينتو مربع (Arabic), בנטו Box (Hebrew), 벤토 박스 (Korean) All Translations

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A small box traditionally used in Japan for packed meals (known as o-bento), though gaining popularity in the West as well. Traditionally filled with cold rice or noodles, meat and sides, bento boxes can be filled with almost anything. The boxes are made of a variety of materials, from lacquered wood to colorful plastic. O-bento is an art form and creative outlet, with practitioners shaping the food into cute designs.

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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, usually in a box-shaped container. Containers range from disposable mass produced to hand crafted lacquerware. Although bento is readily available in many places throughout Japan, including convenience stores, , train stations, and department stores, it is still common for Japanese homemakers to spend time and energy for their spouse, child, or themselves producing a carefully prepared lunch box. Bento can be very elaborately arranged in a style called kyaraben. Contests are often held where bento arrangers compete for the most aesthetically pleasing arrangements. Kyaraben is typically decorated to look like people, animals, or characters and items such as flowers and plants. There are similar forms of boxed lunches in the Philippines (Baon), Korea (Dosirak), Taiwan (Biandang), and India (Tiffin).

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