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Make Your Own Onigiri

If you liked the look of the bento boxes we featured last week and are thinking about making your first foray into making one for yourself, Maki Itoh wrote two posts recently that should help you get started on making onigiri, the rice balls that are a classic in bento box lunches: Onigiri (Omusubi) revisited: An easier way to make Japanese rice balls, step by step and More about onigiri: keeping them fresh and more....

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 5, 2007 at 8:35 AM
Tagged: bento, japanese, lunch, onigiri

Dine-O-Matic Will Decide Your Fate

Are you one of those people who can't decide what to have for lunch, or do you work with people who can't agree on a place to eat? If you're on OS X , you might want to consider downloading Iconfactory's free Dine-O-Matic Dashboard Widget, which'll randomly select a place for you to eat at (or get takeout from) out of a selection of restaurants you've put in....

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 1, 2007 at 9:56 AM
Tagged: lunch, os x, software

Attention Men: Brown Bag Lunches Are HOT

Orangette's boyfriend packed her lunch one day, totally out of the blue: "I guess the conventional way to woo a woman would involve roses, or chocolates in a frilly box, or fancy dinners set to a soundtrack of Marvin Gaye. But personally, I think “make her a brown-bag lunch” should be added to the list, right up there with love poems, candlelight, and bearskin rugs." Men who cook for you are sexy, sure, but a man who makes you a meal you won't even be eating around him—now that's a keeper!...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, January 30, 2007 at 11:00 AM
Tagged: brown bag, lunch, romance

Bento Boxes on Flickr

Looking at Flickr's bento boxes group, with its thousands upon thousands of photos of neatly arranged, self-packed and often incredibly cute lunches, has got to be one of my favorite ways to start the week. Even the dreariest Monday is somehow easier to face when you know there are people in the world making crabs out of hotdogs and Ms Pacman out of egg and seaweed. (The Totoro dust mote-shaped onigiri in the photo at right almost make me wish I had to go into an office every day, just so I'd have an excuse to make them!)...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, January 29, 2007 at 4:27 AM
Tagged: bento, cute, Japanese, lunch