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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.
The showpiece of today's ultra-cheerful bento, courtesy of Amanky, is a Trader Joe's calabacitas and cheese quesadilla graced with a rather expressionistic sunrise rendered in Betty Crocker Easy Writer food coloring markers. As if that weren't sunny enough, dessert is pink and white Mother's animal cookies, which studies have shown are the happiest cookie in the grocery aisle.
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9-10-2008 @12:54PM wanderinglady said... It must be desperation time in "box lunch" land. The bento boxes you've shown over the past couple of days have not been artistic, inspired or appetizing. (I think you hit your peak with the "geese" one, and went rapidly downhill.) I think this one is the worst so far.
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9-10-2008 @2:01PM kasey said... I think the sunrise is pretty despite it being less traditional or unusually artistic in bento terms. It would make me happy just knowing that someone put some extra effort into making my lunch (or, if I made it myself, it's something that would make me smile anyway). Cute bento can be made for a variety of reasons although I think it was originally to show the care and love one was putting into the prepared lunch.
This bento looks tasty and I agree, those cookies are the happiest in the aisle. :D
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9-10-2008 @2:54PM nom nom said...
Saw this blog it same hardware content looks yummier tho
http://www.eatinginabox.com/2007/10/classic-japanese-bento.html
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