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 entry, by Vingt Deux, takes the bento to delightfully geeky heights with a re-creation of the scorched sand and double suns of planet Tatooine in Star Wars. The sky is purple cabbage and the sand is pita and hummus, hiding a nutritious pile of cherry tomatoes underneath. Our Jawa wears a robe of Philly steak Tofurkey, with nori ammo belt and hands, and a black rice face with carrot cube eyes. Utinni!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-22-2008 @ 12:38PM
N said...
I don't get this...the purpose of preparing a bento is for eating lunch...while the designs are interesting, these look inedible. Tofurkey w/ Nori, cabbage and pita/hummus doesn't sound too appetizing.
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8-22-2008 @ 1:01PM
Tug Spicer said...
Regarding "N", THE FORCE IS NOT STRONG IN THIS ONE -- the joy of life is not either. ThisSTAR WARTS Yoda made of FOOD is COMPLETELY awesome. Don't listen to the haters, Emily. YOU GO, GIRL!
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8-23-2008 @ 4:05PM
btdown said...
Congratulations!! You've created a whole new word for something that already exists..Its lunch..more specifically, its a lunch box. Whats the big deal here?
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8-25-2008 @ 8:54AM
Victor Agreda Jr said...
btdown, some countries use a different word for *everything*
In this case, you'll have to blame the Japanese for not using our term for "lunch" (bento means a bit more than that):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento
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