In Japan, parents make bento lunches for their kindergarten kids. To make a healthy lunch look as appetizing (or rather, âfunâ) as possible, many parents make them as cute as possible. As a parent of two boys, Iâve tried to make cute bento lunches, with the key word being âtriedâ.
The materials you are working withâwell, foodâarenât ideal. Still, Japanese food companies do sell pre-cut PokĂ©mon seaweed paper, veggie cutters that create adorable shapes, and edible powdered dyes to alter the color of white rice. Even with that help, I havenât turned anything one millionth as impressive as the hand-made lunches AnnaTheRed has churned out over the years.
What makes her bento lunches so damn great isnât merely that she can make pretty much any video game, anime, or manga into a lunch, but that AnnaTheRed, who grew up in Japan, uses the types of food you actually find in Japanese kidsâ bento lunches. (Sometimes, bento makers in the West use food that people in Japan would find, well, odd in a lunch box.)
Kotaku has previously posted a handful of her bento work (here, here, and here). And now, here are many, many more. Iâve probably posted too many from her blog (which you should read), but hopefully she wonât mind! Just wanted to share.
https://lastchance.cc/pata-pata-yummy-lunch-5262211%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
AnnaTheRed [Official Site via On The Level]
