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For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. The boxes can range from austere lacquered trays to multi-tiered Hello Kitty confections of neon pink plastic. The meals themselves are anything from rice and leftovers to elaborate themed affairs of Pikachu-shaped dumplings with sesame seed eyes and carved radish trees. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.
Today's bento is a rather quizzical-looking owl, rendered in turkey meatloaf with carrot sauce details, on a background of parsley rice. Our feathered friend is accompanied by a green curry dumpling and several sesame fish cakes in similar tones of rust and green, giving the tableau a rather 70s rec room vibe. Let's hear it for our artist, Los Dragónnes.
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8-21-2008 @10:58PM joe said... You failed to mention that these are often served at or around (I've had them both above and below) room temperature. If you've ever had day old cold shrimp tempura, it's a terrible thing. The ones that are served in Japan don't ever look this nice and tend to come in disposable plastic boxes. Delivery companies that sell these drive around all morning to various businesses (or in my case a school) in an unrefridgerated truck, and leave them in big trays which are picked up the next day when the new boxes are delivered. They do however sell those nice lacquered, stackable boxes for making them at home at various stores (they even have fake lacquered ones at the 100-yen store). They sell all kinds of molds for various rice concoctions like onigiri. They don't typically come in store purchased bento boxes, but most people who make them at home do include a few. I recieved one from a friend's mother that even had a quarter sized winnie the pooh container with soy sauce.
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8-25-2008 @1:16AM Los Dragonnes said... Let me say that I am not the artist, but just the husband and the eater of the bento featured here. Reiko27 is the creator, I am just the benefactor of the bento.
She is amazing, isn't she?
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