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Following previously posted bento boxes are these superb examples by Anna The Red, who creates them for her boyfriend Derek.

Check out more on the Obento Flickr set

Via The Awesomer

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Find out how to make tamagoyaki (grilled egg omelet) for your bento! Sounds a simple enough process, but the key seems to be all in the timing…

The Basic Tamagoyaki

Via Tastespotting

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Having featured a multitude of Hello Kitty stuff and lots of bento box variations, here something with a combination of both. Just in time for Halloween today – Hello Kitty Zombie Bento…

Via HelloKittyHell

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Mario and bento boxes are never going out of East-Asian fashion. We’ve written about cute looking bento boxes before, but here’s the Mario bento box for your Nintendo obsessed school kid’s lunch!

And if its Homer they like, they can chew on his rice head.

Via Neatorama

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Here are some slightly unnecessary eggs shaped into Hello Kitty faces. Unnecessary unless you’re a fanatical Hello Kitty fan of course.

If these looked really cute like Hello Kitty bento, I can understand, but these?

Via KittyHell.com

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Puma’s new Urban Mobility Collection contains a nice range of bags and accessories for different occasions, such as “Out of Town” and “Out and About“.

In the “Out of Office” range, they have this rather tasty Japanese Lunch Bag and a separate Bento Box (which fits into the bag). Also available in other colours.

The (Flash) website is also pretty good too.

See the Puma Urban Mobility Collection

Via NotCot

Technorati Tags: Bento Box, cuisine, fashion, Japan, Japanese Lunch Bag, Puma Urban Mobility Collection

Bentos, or boxed lunches, have a long deep history rooted in ancient Japan. They originally began as simple meals that required little or no effort to assemble. Today they are a vibrant art form popular worldwide.

Instructables have a step-by-step tutorial where they attempt to provide the basic design principles, resources for obtaining the necessary tools, and some of the traditional rules of making a beautiful and delicious bento.

Crafting a Bento

Via Craftzine

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The Character Bento (Lunchbox) Contest was held in Tokyo recently and the following entry, titled “Even Rainy Days Are Fun!“, won!

The lunch features sausages cut like flowers and a red pepper designed to look like an umbrella. The lunch was judged not only on aesthetics but on nutritional value, so clearly needs double skills to win.

I haven’t seen the other entries but I guess the nutritional bit does mean packing in a few ingredients that you’d need to try harder to make look good. I could be wrong, but there’s possibly room for improvement? Check out an earlier post to find out what else you can do with the sausages: Ingenious Frankfurter Animals.

From TokyoMango

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Take a look at this tasty looking cucumber on pressed rice sandwich which came as part of a bento box lunch from the tea shop in the Japanese owned luxurious boutique store Takashimaya in New York.

Hm – I can either try making one myself, look for one in the UK, or fly to New York…

From thewanderingeater via tastespotting

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Check out this strange combination of Sushi styling but chocolate (and other sweet) tastes. These sushi items are meticulously handmade and use the finest chocolate, delectable flavourings and crisp rice cookies instead of raw fish, vinegar and rice.

For instance, the Apricot Row has a crisp rice cookie under rows of apricot flavoured “gummi-eggs”, wrapped in dark chocolate, and the Berry Maguro has a strawberry flavoured chocolate tuna fillet with a milk chocolate hazelnut centre.
Combinations of sushi can be bought, presented in an array of beautiful, imported Japanese obento boxes, washi paper boxes and trays.

Chocolate Sushi at Koo-ki Sushi

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