The side dishes can include types of salads ... Perhaps the importance placed on a bento box's visual presentation should be no surprise coming from a culture that has made activities like ...

This means, literally, "one soup, three sides" and established the now traditional composition of a bento box. Though this ...

soft-cooked just on one side, but for a lunch box to take on the go, it is safer to make it over-hard so the yolk is well cooked. Just having a fried egg in a bento is enough to make us feel ...