Bento means lunch or lunch box. But for most Japanese home cooks, the act of preparing a bento box can mean much more than that. A bento box represents a mother’s love for her family. For centuries, ...

It always comes to this. Partaking of Japanese food is not just perfunctorily putting food into one’s mouth. There are rituals involved, as well as cultural references, whether pop or much older, more ...

We love a good deal and we hate cooking in record-high temperatures. So some cold, refreshing sushi accompanied by fixings that make up a bento box are the perfect summer lunch. According to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Japan-inspired fast casual restaurant chain Go Bento recently reopened its Bonifacio Global City branch with new branding, interiors and offerings in addition to tried-and-tested ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Not all restaurants in BGC are expensive. Exhibit A: the newly reopened Go Bento in Bonifacio High Street. After ...

Growing up outside of Tokyo, Chef Kenji Miyaishi’s mother used to send him off with bento boxes of onigiri rice balls, karaage fried chicken, tamago-yaki egg omelets and vegetables from her garden.

Endlessly adaptable, a bento-box lunch comes to the rescue as school begins, Kenji López-Alt writes. Joel Goldberg for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Hadas Smirnoff.Credit... Supported by By J.

Japanese dishes are often sweet. That’s rare among world cuisines, in my opinion (although Thai food can also be sweet, I believe). Having lived overseas for nine years, I now feel a tad uncomfortable ...