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. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.
Today we've got another Sakurako Kitsa piece, an all-food rendering of a Japanese watercolor picture from the 1930s. A turkey woman with black food dye hair and face wears a kimono of mamenori (soy bean paper) with red food dye on a background of mozzarella. Behind her, mamenori sakura (cherry blossoms) with apple skin leaves drift through a sky of blue food coloring-dyed rice. On the side is a heart-shaped container of cranberries and edamame, a half a boiled egg with paprika, and sakura-shaped kamaboko (fish cake) dyed with pink food coloring.
I'm not sure I'd want to eat this, but I'd love to lacquer it and put it in a museum.
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