Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
About Bento Boxes and Wiener Shapers
I love learning about other cultures. One of the cultures I like to delve into is Japan. Sometimes, however, I step a little further into the Japanese culture than I would like. Last week, for example, I found myself looking through the pages on Ebay for a bento box. For those who don’t know, it is basically a Japanese lunch box. Except they don’t just put their food into little plastic bags and then throw them into the lunch box. Oh no, they prepare their meals into aesthetically pleasing arrangements. Some even go so far as to make an art out of creating bento. Here is one of the more average bentos that I have found.
How nice is that? Since I take lunch and dinner with me to school, I thought it would be nice to have an authentic Japanese bento box with food prepared in the authentic Japanese bento box way. I had to figure out how to create such beasts without needing to put too much effort into it. Naturally, this would lead me to my next find: wiener shapers. Yes, in Japan, they have developed plastic molds to cut your hot dogs into cute animals and shapes. Here in America, we have animal crackers and goldfish to torment. In Japan, you get animal shaped hot dogs. How cool is that? They even have molds to shape your hard-boiled eggs.
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/st-toremu/200442/
This was, of course, until I realized that I was too lazy for all of this, even with the cut outs. Ah well, at least I still have my little red lunch pail.