Portable lunches can be practical, delicious, and visually appealing, according to a new book by Crystal Watanabe and Maki Ogawa: Yum-Yum Bento Box: Fresh Recipes for Adorable Lunches. Over the course ...

Instead of brown lunch bags, Japanese kids typically bring bento boxes to school for lunch. And sometimes these bento boxes can be an outlet for mothers to unleash their creativity. You’ll can see how ...

Bento means lunch or lunch box. But for most Japanese home cooks, the act of preparing a bento box can mean much more than that. A bento box represents a mother’s love for her family. For centuries, ...

Start the new school year on a high note with this back-to-school-themed bento box. This lunch features a sandwich shaped like a notebook resting on a lettuce leaf, as little plastic toothpick boots, ...

Bento means lunch or lunch box. But for most Japanese home cooks, the act of preparing a bento box can mean much more than that. A bento box represents a mother’s love for her family. For centuries, ...

Editor’s note: In the Every Bento Tells a Story series, Chikako Tada, editor of Pen & Spoon, a website devoted to food, writes about various aspects of making bento. There is also a helpful video in ...

Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) is working with Sats to refine bento meals, recipes and food presentation, and exploring ...

A bento is a lunchbox, usually one person serving, home cooked or sold to takeaway in some japanese restaurants/shops. Out there in Japan, it is very common that children and adults bring their bento ...