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We here at Slashfood love the idea of bento, whether it is marvelling at the amazing home creations of Japanese mothers for their family, pointing to sites that are fanatical about bento, or finding cool gadgets to take bento yourself. Last year Nick showed us Mr. Bento, a handy canister made by Zojirushi for carrying your lunch, but it seems that Mr. Bento has landed himself a girlfriend, Ms. Bento!

Now I'm not quite sure what makes this bento box a "Ms." but it makes me wonder if Zojirushi believes that Ms. Bento is supposed to be carried by women and Mr Bento by men. Ms. Bento differs from the "Mr." in that it's a lovely pastel blue or violet rather than sleek silver and comes with a handy matching handbag, as opposed to the somewhat boring black drawstring tote. It also only has two containers for food rather than four. If I were carrying bento to the office or school, I think I'd still want to carry the Mr.

I recently came across the Mr. Bento Stainless Lunch Jar by Zojirushi. Some of you may be familiar with the company as the maker of other appliances like breadmakers and rice machines. Their rice machines look like they could put a man on the moon and they even play cute little songs. That said, it's no surprise that Zojirushi makes a bento like this. The casing is stainless steel and holds four microwaveable bowls, as well as chopsticks and a chopstick holder. All of it stays in a zippered carrying bag. It looks like they generally sell for about $50. The "Fun!Fun!Fun!" section of the site is also worth checking out.