What is the bento culture like in Japan?

Japan is famous for its bento, which stems from the Japanese people's unique take on ingredients. With its wide variety and long history, the Japanese bento is another reflection of Japanese culture. The next step is to introduce them to you specifically.

First of all, the Japanese bento reflects the aesthetic sense of the Japanese, with a fresh and light character. Although not as delicate as the bento in Japanese comics, it is colorful, focusing on the matching of ingredients and creating on the original color of ingredients. The shapes are pleasing to the eye, and the ingredients are put together to form various cartoon characters or special representations of the season. A small bento is a reflection of the maker's thoughts about the people who will eat it, as well as the pursuit of a high quality of life. The Japanese sense of aesthetics and culture is reflected in the bento.

There are many different kinds of boxes for bento. There are mainly single-layer boxes, double-layer boxes, special boxes for onigiri, and more specialized boxes with heat preservation. Box material also has many kinds, the most special is the wooden bento box, the kind of bento box can best reflect the temperament of the Japanese-style bento, both the appearance and feel are very texture. The other double lunch box and rice ball box is more practical, suitable for office workers and students, both beautiful and practical.

Bento, as the name suggests, is to give people a convenient life. Japanese people have a strong sense of time and most of them are busy working. People put food that cannot be eaten in time into bento boxes and eat it at school or work, which saves them a lot of time. There are many 24-hour convenience stores in Japan, which sell bento as their main income, and they keep adjusting the types of bento and appetites to satisfy customers' needs, and there are also self-heating bento to make up for the problem that bento cannot be heated. Overall, the bento culture is another manifestation of Japanese food culture and one of the spiritual pursuits of Japanese people.