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A bento is a single-portion take-out or home-packed meal of Japanese origin, often for lunch, typically including rice and packaged in a box with a lid.
A typical bento from a grocery store
Hanami bento in the Edo period
Hinomaru bentō
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Kyaraben
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Kyaraben or charaben is a shortened form of character bento. Derived from the traditional bento box of Japan, kyaraben became a fun way to make meals for children beginning in the 1990s. It is a style
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…Outside Japan, the term bento box may be used (e.g., on English menus for Japanese restaurants). Bento can be elaborately arranged in styles called kyaraben ("character bento", typically decorated to look like popular characters from anime, manga, or video games) or oekakiben ("picture bento", decorated to…
A kyaraben containing rice balls decorated to resemble pandas
Cookie Monster preschool lunch in a bento box
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