Thursday, June 17, 2010

Hongkiat.com: 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Hongkiat.com: 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes


32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 07:51 AM PDT

For most Japanese mothers, lunch is not just simple food preparation and packing meals for their love ones, they spend their time arranging the meal in aesthetically pleasing way. These lunch boxes are known as “Bento.” Bento is a Japanese word for a meal served in a box. In history, bento is a packed Japanese lunch box, same idea to, the Korean dosirak, Filipino baon, or the Indian tiffin lunch. Today, they are a vibrant art form admired around the world.

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If you’re interested on creating one for yourself or for your love ones, there are plenty of garnishes and interesting side dishes for your bento. A basic Bento is only divided into 2 parts: half of the lunch box is filled with rice, the other half is filled with a range of complementary foods, such as eggs, vegetables, meat or fish. Below you’ll see some of well-designed Bento that goes beyond the basic Bento preparation.

Harvest Bento. A well-designed bento that looks like the Sun Maid Raisin girl. (via: Sakurako Kitsa)
Harvest Bento by Sakurako Kitsa 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

I Wanna Rock & Roll All Nite. This was made by Susan Yuen. She chose Gene Simmons of the popular band, KISS (via: Susanyuen)
Rock n roll bento 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Lovely Bento. Yaoi is one of Ramachan’s favorite manga. Yaoi is a Japanese word, which is in fact itís an acronym. It comes from “Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi”, which means “no climax, no point, no meaning”. (via: Ramachan)
Lovely Bento by Ramachan 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Camping Bento. Perfect lunchbox for adventurous people specially going camping bento. (via: Lillergy)
Camping Bento by Lillergy 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Meta Knight bento. This Meta Knight bento was made of a rice ball with plastic wrap, and Anna put some seasoned seaweed inside. Meta Knight is dark blue with a gray mask, so I put ground black sesame seeds around the bottom half on the side of rice ball for the blue part. (via: AnnaTheRed)
Meta Knight Bento Kickintheheadcomic 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Sony Playstation. A bento made by a gamer. (via: Markpascua)
Sony Playstation Japanese Bento 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Star Wars Bento. A star wars-inspired bento showing the planet Tatooine’s twin suns, Tatoo I and Tatoo II. (via: Vingt Deux)
star wars bento by vingt deux 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Spidery Monster Bento. MisterMan, as the creator call it, gets a salmon salad sandwich on whole wheat thin with lettuce and cheddar. Guarding it is fanged tomato spider with baby carrot legs. (via: Sherimiya)
Spidery Monster Bento by Sherimiya 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Starbucks Bento. Starbucks’ marketing department can borrow this idea for their future print advertisement. (via: Ricoco)
Starbucks Bento by Ricoco 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Kanda Bento. Here’s another anime-based bento design. This is the face of Yuu Kanda, one of the best D.Gray-man character. (via: S-in-C)
Kanda Bento by S in C 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Ouendan Monkey Magic Bento. This is from the Monkey Magic segment of the sequel to the Nintendo DS game Osu. (via: Kickintheheadcomic)
Ouendan Monkey Magic Bento 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Lost Bento. A Bento made by an avid viewer of popular TV series, LOST. (via: Aibento)
Lost Bento by Aibento 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Nekobus Bento. Anna truly made an art out of frozen meatballs, broccoli, egg, cheese, snowpeas, asparagus and seaweeds. (via: AnnaTheRed)
Nekobus bento by annathered 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Geisha Bento. In all the Bento design listed here, this one is really unique. It’s like a sculpture placed inside a bento box. (via: Sakurako Kitsa)
Geisha Bento by Sakurako Kitsa 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Konata Bento. This is Konata from Lucky Star Anime Series. (via: KandiKawaii)
Konata Bento by KandiKawaii 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Koi Pond Bento. Cathryn explains that he stones surrounding the pool are soy-braised button, bunashimeji (beech), and tiny enoki mushrooms. The Koi are kamaboko with red bell pepper and nori details. (via: Cathryn3)
Koi Pond Bento by Cathryn3 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Bioshock Big Daddy. Here’s another game-based Bento. Meet Bioshack Big Daddy and the little Sister. (via: Kickintheheadcomic)
Bioshock Big Daddy Bento 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Mokona Bento. Mokona is the pen name of the lead artist of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. Mokona here is made of a giant rice ball (via: Nikoleart)
Mokona Bento by Nikoleart 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Power Puff Girls. Fans of power puff girls will surely love this. (via: Luckysundae)
Power Puff Girls Bento by Luckysundae 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

House of Bento. This house looks yummy from the outside. I wonder what’s the inside. (via: Lillergy)
House of bento by lillergy 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Goju Ryu Suparinpei Bento. The Karate girl is made of mozzarella, smoked ham and nori. The backgraound is made of mushrooms, green onions, mozzarella, pepperoni and turkey. (via: )
Goju Ryu Suparinpei Bento 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Frog Bento. Awesome tree frog sculpture. (via: Sakurako Kitsa)
Frog Bento by Sakurako Kitsa 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

The Oz-Man Cometh. Another excellent artwork by Susan Yuen. (via: Susan Yuen)
The Oz Man Cometh Bento 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Bento of Super Smash Bros.. Featuring Pikachu and Mr. Game & Watch! (via: Kickintheheadcomic)
Bento of Super Smash Bros 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Spongebob Bento. Spongebob is made of a whole grain bread with mortadella and cheese. (via: Lovebones)
Spongebob Bento 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Death Note Bento. Death Note is another popular Japanese manga/anime series. (via: Kickintheheadcomic)
Death Note Bento 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Phoenix Suns Bento. Kawaiikiki made a bento about her favorite NBA team, the Phoenix Suns. (via: Kawaiikiki)
Phoenix Suns Bento by Kawaiikiki 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Spring Picnic Bento. This is an entry bento design by Laura for the Spring Contest sponsored by Bento & Co. (via: Laura Bento)
Spring Picnic Bento 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Wallace and Gromit Bento. Wallace and Gromit is one of the creator’s favorite British animated films. Susan use rice stuffed with barbeque chicken to create Wallace and kamaboko for his eyes and teeth. (via: Susan Yuen)
Wallace and Gromit Bento by Susan Yuen 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Sea Bento. Ironically, there’s no seafood in this bento. (via: Liloaznangel)
Sea Bento by LiLoAznAngel 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Patapon Bento. Patapon is a rhythm game for PSP. You push the buttons to make the Patapons march, attack and defend from enemy. (via: Kickintheheadcomic)
Patapon Bento by Kickintheheadcomic 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

Xmas Bento. Kids will surely love this even though it’s not Christmas season yet. (via: Nonochan)
Xmas Bento by nonochan 32 Creative and Interesting Bento Boxes

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