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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. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Our newest entry in the "mockups of inedible objects" series, we have here a nori Sony PlayStation controller, complete with nori cord. I'm not sure what the buttons are - cheese, maybe, or sliced daikon? The controller, from Kirainet's photostream, is surrounded by pieces of omelet, snow peas, flower-cut carrots, pickle, and what appears to be bits of fried chicken or fish.

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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. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

This bento, from I Love Egg, is called "fun with the nori cutter." It features beet flowers, a rice star, celery, frozen cherries, fried pork, mashed parsnip dyed pink with beet juice in a geometric mold, all adorned with little nori curlicues cut with a craft store paper cutter.

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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. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Earlier this week we saw Sakurako Kitsa's roma tomato ladybug; today we've got a ladybug of a slightly different stripe (spot?). Check out Lucky Sundae's fried rice and ketchup ladybug, with nori details. It sits together with a happy fish cake cloud and a quail egg pickled pink with plum wine vinegar.

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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. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

As part of a Halloween-themed bento, Lorigami has put nori eyes to five large cooked shrimp, giving the critters a spooky, Jim Henson-gone-bad look. The shrimp appear to be emerging from a brakish pool of pesto like creatures from the deep.

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