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- What Is Bento?
- What's My Bento Style?
- How Do I Assemble A Bento?
- Where Can I Buy A Bento Box?
- Where Did Bento Come from?
In simple terms, bento is a single-serving, packed meal, transported by the eater already assembled and ready to be savored. Like an American lunch box, only so much more. Bento historically stars rice or noodles as the foundational starch, accompanied by a protein or two like fish, eggs, or meat. These two main focal points are accented with a var...
The word "bento" comes from the Southern Song Chinese slang term that means "convenient," but make no mistake — this designation only makes sense for the one enjoying it! Bentos are inventions of convenience for the recipient, but they're often a labor of love from the maker. Kyarabenis roughly translated to "character bento," and they are absolute...
There are a few principles beyond aesthetic style and theme to follow when it comes to putting together a proper bento meal. Variety is key for a great bento, and not just in terms of the carb, protein, vegetable, pickled vegetable or fruit mix, which should appear in a 4:3:2:1 ratio, respectively. You want to shop seasonally for the ingredients, a...
Buy bento boxes online. Although most of the world's bento boxes are manufactured in the Ishakawa Prefecture of Japan, global trade has made it easy to get them to your door. They come in all shapes and sizes, from 2 compartment or 3 compartment plastic boxes, to stackable round or rectangular stainless steel boxes, to fun kid-friendly containers f...
Bento is an art form that dates back to the 1100s. The first documented use of bento as a concept can be traced back to Japan's Kamakura period (1185–1333), when cooked rice would be carried into work in a small bag. But it wasn't until the Azuchi-Momoyama period, between 1568 and 1600, that bento as we know it appeared. It was then that lacquered ...
A bento ( 弁当, bentō) [1] is the Japanese iteration of a single-portion take-out or home-packed meal, often for lunch. Outside Japan, it is common in other East and Southeast Asian culinary styles, especially within Chinese, Korean, Singaporean, Taiwanese cuisines and more, as rice is a common staple food in the region.
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- Bento Boxes and Accessories. In this chapter, we’ll go over different bento box options and helpful tools for bento making. 1. Bento Boxes (Lunch Boxes)
- Plan Bento Menus. First, use your creativity to visualize how a bento should look like. Bento making doesn’t have to be complicated, and you can start with simple dishes that you are familiar with.
- Meal Prep for Your Bento. Meal prepping can potentially save a lot of time and energy and you can do that with bento-making too. For me, I don’t want to wake up early, so here’s what I do.
- Pack Bento in the Morning. When you wake up in the morning, here’s what we do: Reheat the frozen food and prepare the food you were planning to cook (read Chapter 5 below if you are not sure why we reheat the food).
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