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Bento Boxes: Japanese Meals on the Go | 
 enlarge | Author: Naomi Kijima
Creator: Laura Driussi
Publisher: Japan Publications Trading
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 7680
Media: Paperback
Pages: 64
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 4889960732
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9784889960730
ASIN: 4889960732
Publication Date: September 28, 2001
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Product Description
This book offers an elegant way to enjoy delicious, healthy food on the run. Includes more than 40 main dish recipes and step-by-step illustrations.
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 Simple and to the point. July 27, 2004
The Chief (Lancaster, CA United States)
89 out of 93 found this review helpful
A Bento box is to the Japanese what the brown bag lunch is to Americans. And the food inside is the same: simple, easy to make, and cheep. Though this book is short (64 pages), it is easy to follow and is accompanied by colorful photos. The recipes are short and simple to follow, most with five or fewer ingredients. Take note, you are not going to find and fancy or exquisite dishes in this book. There is no introduction or explanations for what you are doing or why you do it. Its only recipes and pictures cover to cover. Almost all of the ingredients can be found at your local megamart with a few exceptions. Pickled plum, cod roe, and burdock might be hard , if not imposable to find, but by my count the things I cant get only eliminated seven or eight recipes. And with two to five recipes per page that?s not to bad. At its cheep price and easy to make dishes I lightly recommend this book.
Nice pictorial intro to bento, but not too practical December 15, 2007
Makiko Itoh (Earth)
80 out of 82 found this review helpful
I run two food blogs, one focused mainly on Japanese cooking, the other just on bento lunches. (I'm Japanese but live outside of Japan.) I finally got around to taking a look at this book.
The pros: it's a nice visual introduction to fairly traditional bento lunch boxes. (Keep in mind that 'bento' can be something other than a portable lunch.) The presentation is very attractive.
The cons: even as someone familiar with the ingredients and cooking methods I thought that this book looked rather intimidating, because just about every single recipe calls for ingredients that are only available from Japanese groceries. Actually quite a lot of the recipes call for ingredientat that would be very hard to get outside of Japan. Clearly this is a translation of a Japanese bento book, and no consideration is given at all to how available certain ingredients may be or not. (This is something I always try to keep in mind on my sites.)
The presentation feels just a bit outdated to me. Current bento books in Japan have a much simpler, modern feel. The instructions are also rather abbreviated, as if the intended audience is the fairly experienced Japanese cook (which it probably was when it was written originally).
So, I think for most people who don't live in Japan this would be a nice picture book to have around, perhaps as inspiration and eye candy, but perhaps not too useful for everyday lunch making for a typical American.
 I was looking for a bento box... January 10, 2004
59 out of 113 found this review helpful
I was looking for a bento box, it couldn't be pinku (thats japanese for pink) or any girl color. It had to be of 2 or more kotoba (thats japanese for 2 compartments) and had be be chibi (small) sized. And had to be really kawaii (cute). Also It had to be about 10-20 bux. And the seller had to post pics of it first (i wanted to make shure it was kawaii [cute]). And it would have been nice if it came with matching chopstick holder (WITH chopsticks). OH! and it CANNOT have had any cartoon pictures, or been made out of plastic. It has to be made of ceramic, or something like that. Also it would have been nice if it was made in japan. and not in china or corea (korea) or whatever. I had found a bento box similar to the one im describing in e-bay, but it was 1 kotoba, and i didnt want my gohan (rice) to touch my other things (it can get wet and i would not like that, plus 2 compartments looks more kawaii).Thanks to this book, I finally found my chibi kawaii 2 kotoba bento box and my gohan is not wet. Thanks you book!
Excellent, comprehensive, easy to read July 6, 2005
Gordon M. Wagner (Suburbia)
42 out of 60 found this review helpful
Beautiful photographs, too. The single minor complaint I had was some of the type was a bit horsey, but it doesn't get in the way of the recipes.
Excellent variety, clearly laid out with tons of color photographs. If you're going to buy only one bento book, choose this one. It's clearly superior to the other titles on amazon.com.
Good bye boring brown bag lunches! December 2, 2005
Dionne M. Sloan
27 out of 32 found this review helpful
Now I can enjoy some of the same foods my favorite anime characters eat without the expense of take out! Mouth watering delicious food is only a few ingredients away with this simple guide. I haven't used all of the recipes in here due to not being able to find the ingredients but the ones I have are easy, quick (and did I mention delicious?). I've made larger batches for dinner with leftovers in mind and they are even better the next day! Each recipe has a picture and packing instructions in case you are using an authentic bento box. (...)This would be an excellent book for some one new to cooking as the recipes are very simple to follow.
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