Bento Box featuring video game character, Super Mario!
Bento is usually a one-portion packed or delivered meal, which is common in Japan. A traditional Bento box would contain rice, fish or your choice of meat coupled with pickled or cooked vegetables. Sounds quite simple, doesn’t it? Though one can get hold of a bento box easily in Bento shops and convenience stores, the real joy of consuming Bento is when it is artfully packed.
This particular style of arranging food in boxes is known as Kyaraben or Oekakiben. While Kyaraben means character Bento, which is based on Japanese anime or manga; Oekakiben is based on people, animals, buildings and monuments.
