Japanese bento

[ZakuTakahisa]

Hello all. (I'm rather... anti-social on this site... I forget I'm a member; my apologies)

Does anyone know any good bento recipes? For example; onigiri
I'd rather like to have bento for my lunch but I don't know so many things I can add. My cookbooks give me no ideas.


Thank you, in advance, for any help.


Takahisa.

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

The obentou recipe made at the home in Japan
(Web page translation)
http://infoseek.amikai.com/amiweb/browser.jsp?langpair=2%2C1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoppi.ne.jp%2Fobento%2F&translate=WEB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E7%BF%BB% E8%A8%B3&display=2&lang=JA&toolbar=yes&c_id=infoseek


http://www.yoppi.ne.jp/obento/img/siroikoi4_b.jpg

[bezz]

Standard home-made bento (http://web-jpn.org/kidsweb/virtual/bento/top.html) looks like:

http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/0133.jpg http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/0136.jpg
http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/0137.jpg http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/0138.jpg
http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/0141.jpg http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/0144.jpg
http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/0145.jpg http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/0151.jpg

[bezz]

more

http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/1085.jpg http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/3019.jpg
http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/3058.jpg http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/3133.jpg
http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/4005.jpg http://www.gohan.ne.jp/JPEG/5033.jpg

[Kiko_Pitazu]

Hello all. (I'm rather... anti-social on this site... I forget I'm a member; my apologies)
Does anyone know any good bento recipes? For example; onigiri
I'd rather like to have bento for my lunch but I don't know so many things I can add. My cookbooks give me no ideas.
Thank you, in advance, for any help.
Takahisa.
I have a site with a bunch of recepies :cool: http://www.c4vct.com/kym/bento/recipes.htm clicking 'bento photos' may help you find something specific. I find it easier to know what I want when I see it.
Bento ha kakkoii desu... :souka: mottomo kakkoii....ne? :D

[anjusan]

:happy: OMG! :happy:

I had to add all those sites to my favourites! Kiko, those recipes are do-able...and the ideas... I never thought of fruit spring rolls using rice paper before...

I am going to have a culinary weekend experimenting! They are going to be sooooooooooooooooo jealous of my lunches at work next week!!:lol:

[bezz]

Bento lunch served in restaurants (sometimes called gozen) tends to be less densely packed, with more concentrations on presentation. The most popular form is Shokado bento (http://www.city.yawata.kyoto.jp/contents/7d39080b3b120f1/7d39080b3b120f125.htm) developed in 1933 by Teiichi Yuki, the founder of the famous �ber restaurant Kitcho.

Kitcho Shokado Branch (http://www.kitcho.com/kyoto/tenpo/shoukado.htm)
43 Yawata Ominaeshi, Yawata-shi, Kyoto 614-8077 Japan
phone: +81(75)971-3311

http://web-jpn.org/museum/others/cuisine/cuisine01/01img/oacb04_bentos_01.jpg

[Chisa]

The obentou recipe made at the home in Japan
(Web page translation)
http://infoseek.amikai.com/amiweb/browser.jsp?langpair=2%2C1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoppi.ne.jp%2Fobento%2F&translate=WEB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E7%BF%BB% E8%A8%B3&display=2&lang=JA&toolbar=yes&c_id=infoseek
http://www.yoppi.ne.jp/obento/img/siroikoi4_b.jpg

that picture is pretty much the weirdest thing ive seen all day :p

[Chisa]

I have a site with a bunch of recepies :cool: http://www.c4vct.com/kym/bento/recipes.htm clicking 'bento photos' may help you find something specific. I find it easier to know what I want when I see it.
Bento ha kakkoii desu... :souka: mottomo kakkoii....ne? :D

hahahaha I love the title "MY LUNCH CAN BEAT UP YOUR LUNCH"

[Hide My Heart]

OMG! Im so excited! *teary eyes* :( I love onigiri so making them would come in handy. BUt theyre only 70 cents by me so maybe id still be better of getting the boxed lunches no? :?

[godppgo]

http://ricocoblog.seesaa.net/

A Japanese housewife's blog.

[Minty]

I used to bring Japanese bento as lunch when I was studying my degree. I made it myself. The trouble was I received too much attention; it wasn’t very easy to eat when many people starred at you.

:bluush:

[jlifeintl]

Yes I brought my Mr. Bento to class and ate lunch in the room during break and everyone stared at me. They thought my lunch was so cool (compartmentalized and cute, etc.. )... Looked just like this: ( http://www.jlifeinternational.com/zojirushi/SL-JA14_e.html ).
It was a long semester!!!

[Dollporn]

I brought it to work yesterday. Oh man, that was something. I'm putting apple in my rice for work on friday!

[bezz]

recap pics:

http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000133.jpg http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000136.jpg
http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000137.jpg http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000138.jpg
http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000141.jpg http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000144.jpg
http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000145.jpg http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000151.jpg

[Minty]

Those pics are great; I always find the Japanese food decorations neat!

[osias]

The obentou recipe made at the home in Japan
(Web page translation)
http://infoseek.amikai.com/amiweb/browser.jsp?langpair=2%2C1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoppi.ne.jp%2Fobento%2F&translate=WEB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E7%BF%BB% E8%A8%B3&display=2&lang=JA&toolbar=yes&c_id=infoseek
http://www.yoppi.ne.jp/obento/img/siroikoi4_b.jpg
oh, i like this.

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

Pleasant obentou.:cool:
It is a recipe of simple obentou.
(Because it is a Japanese site, please use web translation.)
http://www.yoppi.ne.jp/obento/
(web translation)
http://translation.infoseek.co.jp/?ac=Web&lng=en

[bezz]

Those pics are great; I always find the Japanese food decorations neat!http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000148.jpg http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000134.jpg

[bezz]

http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000143.jpg http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000152.jpg

[Dutch Baka]

The obentou recipe made at the home in Japan
(Web page translation)
http://infoseek.amikai.com/amiweb/browser.jsp?langpair=2%2C1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoppi.ne.jp%2Fobento%2F&translate=WEB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E7%BF%BB% E8%A8%B3&display=2&lang=JA&toolbar=yes&c_id=infoseek


http://www.yoppi.ne.jp/obento/img/siroikoi4_b.jpg

haha thats cute

[bezz]

http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000147.jpg http://www.gohanmuseum.com/recipe/imgs/img000135.jpg

[ricecake]

bezz ...

Can you do us a favor,provide a description of those mouth-watering bento pictures you come to post from time to time ?

[Kyoko_desu]

My grandmother taught me how to make a good (delicious and nice-looking) obento.

The most important thing she said is you should not only use stuff of the same color in it. If you put some pieces of grilled chicken, it's brown and if you put some yakisoba (fried noodle) beside it, it's brown too. Then the obento will not look very delicious no matter how it really is so. You should put something red, green, yellow instead of two brown stuff, it would look far better.

red stuff can be tomato, umeboshi (pickled plum), benishouga
green, broccoli, parsley, green peas, kaiwaredaikon(radish sprouts)
yellow, lemon, tamago-yaki, takuwan
brown, hamburger, meat ball, croquette

Please look again at all those mouth-watering obento photos bezz-san posted, they are all so colorful! If your obento has all those colors, then really it looks nice and also has very well balanced nutrition.

[bezz]

Does anyone know any good bento recipes?Can you do us a favor,provide a description of those mouth-watering bento pictures you come to post from time to time ?A cookbook titled:

Bento Boxes: Japanese Meals on the Go
written by Naomi Kijima

might help.