Obento

Obento, or bento, as it is also known, is a Japanese “meal, usually served in a lacquered or elaborately decorated box that is divided into sections for holding individual portions of food”¹. I’ve always imagined obento/bento² to be a simple lunchbox type thing, but according to this photostream I found on Flickr, that is not always the case

I know regular, everyday obento does not look like this. But God, wouldn’t it be cool if it did?! There’s bento of Calvin and Hobbes! Cooking Mama! Where the Wild Things Are! And so much more at the photostream I linked above!

I wish I could find obento like that… although if I did, I’d probably be too afraid to eat it for spoiling the pretty!

1. Source: dictionary.com. [↩]
2. I’m not sure what the difference between the two terms is, actually – someone who is skilled in Japanese, feel free to enlighten me? [↩]

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.