Top 10 Anime Bento Lunch [Best Bento Box]

May 14,2024

Beauty and balance all in a box, an anime bento is one of those wonders of Japan that many people covet around the world. While anime food is undeniably mouth watering and hunger inducing, an anime bento lunch appears to be so amazing that you will cry about those days when you brought a plastic wrapped sandwich in a brown paper bag or lunchables to school. Bento lunches can be traced back to the Kamakura period where dried rice was placed in a bag to be re-cooked later for lunch, but the lacquered bento box comes from Azuchi-Momoyama period. It wasn't until the Edo period that the bento lunch became more popular and widespread. The bento lunch originally got its name from a slang term used for the word "convenience" from the Song Dynasty, but it has since evolved since then. It usually refers to a single portioned meal stored in a bento box. Bento boxes range from disposable types to beautifully handcrafted lacquered boxes. There are many different types of bento lunches available