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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, courtesy of Bhikku, breaks the long-held taboo on panda-eating. The smiley rice panda has nori (seaweed) details and wears what appears to be a carrot flower collar (any Japanese speakers wanna help me out?). He's surrounded by various yummy noshes - mini-sausages, a cutlet of some type, rolled omelet, a maraschino cherry and an unidentified pink object with a nori face.
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8-26-2008 @12:50PM Mana said... It looks like the "unidentified pink object" Is a hard boiled egg, soaked either in dye, or beet juice.
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8-26-2008 @11:36PM ziddy said... Hi-
Love the posts on the Bento Boxes. The link below shows some adorable ones, featured on Cute Overload. I couldn't resist bringing it to the attention of the Slashfood pool.
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/08/betcha-cant-eat.html
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8-27-2008 @2:59AM geoff said... The collar is 'ninjin' which is carrot and the cutlet is 'tonkatsu' which would be panko fried pork.
My kanji is garbage so the unidentified pink object will remain so.
The cheeks are made of ham, the whites of the eyes are cheese and there is some potato salad underneath the panda arms.
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8-27-2008 @3:46AM oishii said... using my less-than-rudimentary japanese:
the pupils of the eyes are cheese
the rosy cheeks are ham
the fried thing on the upper right is tonkatsu (breaded fried pork cutlet)
below that are cocktail wieners
the smile/mouth is shiso leaf (perilla in english i think)
underneath the carrot tie is potato salad
the only thing i couldn't read was the topmost ingredient, which sounds like "gurasei" of "ringu" but i think it might be (canned) apples, which is "ringo" in japanese (close enough?)
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8-27-2008 @6:59AM Kero said... the pink object could likely be the pink pickled ginger sometimes served with sushi.
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8-27-2008 @8:14AM tresa said... the pink object is a quail egg, hardboiled and dyed.
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8-29-2008 @1:25AM geoff said... It says リング which is 'ring' and グラッセ which I think is a 'glace' Hard to translate, I think it's candied apple maybe.
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8-29-2008 @5:34PM Emily Matchar said... Thanks, guys!
To do: Learn Japanese
-Emily
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