To get you started on the bento box craze, read below for the best bento boxes as well as food picks, liners and other accessories to make a boring bag lunch a thing of the past. OmieBox Bento Box ...

The elderly on Okinawa have adopted the philosophy of hara hachi bu, in which they stop eating when they are 80% full, ... We received our food on six compartment trays, known as bento boxes, ...

Bento boxes date back to Japan’s Edo Period (1603-1868), when travelers would pack rice balls into bamboo pouches carried around the waist, according to Emiko Davies, ...

Madoka Yamada (left) gives out meals in bento boxes for free to a junior high school student at Mama Restaurant Hive House, a children's cafeteria in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture. | THE OKINAWA TIMES ...

½ cup sliced cucumber. Supplies: 2 bento-style containers with 3 compartments. 4 small silicone cupcake holders. To prepare the nacho meat: Heat a medium nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.

The advent of the railway brought the bento box squarely into the modern era. In 1885, Utsunomiya station (in the eponymous city) saw the introduction of ekiben — a portmanteau of eki (meaning ...