What exactly is bento?

And how do you make it?What exactly is bento?
Bentō (弁当 or べんとう, Bentō?) is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickled or cooked vegetables as a side dish. Containers range from disposable mass produced to hand crafted lacquerware. While bento are readily available at convenience stores and bento shops (弁当屋, bentō-ya?) throughout Japan, it is still considered an essential skill of a Japanese housewife to be able to prepare an appealing boxed lunch.



Bento can be very elaborate, aesthetically pleasing cuisine arrangements. Often the food is arranged in such a way as to resemble other objects: dolls, flowers, leaves, and so forth.What exactly is bento?
It's pretty much a boxed lunch that you would take to work or school....It usually contains ricce, some kind of protein , and maybe a little dessert.....
bento literally means "meal in a box". in asia, bento consists of rice and different dishes arranged in a box, usually for work or school lunch, but not limited to that. trains in taiwan and japan selling bento box to the travelers. if you would like, you can call your sandwich box bento...What exactly is bento?
a take away lunch from Japanese restaurants, usually a combination of various foods
It means lunch box in Japanese!What exactly is bento?
bento is from the Japanese. It's a lunch box that have many compartments. They take it to work, school, and etc. And whatever is in the box is what you or someone fills it up with. When I was an exchange student in japan; my exchange mother pack it with a little rice, maybe an omelet or cooked meat, vegetables and little sweet treats for me. So a bento is a lunch box filled with food.