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  • Paperback: 64 pages
  • Publisher: Japan Publications Trading Co (Jul 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 4889960732
  • ISBN-13: 978-4889960730
  • Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 20.6 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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Japanese bento box includes an elegant way to carry delicious, healthy food with you anywhere: to work, to school, to picnics, and to any outdoor events. In this richly illustrated full-colour book, author and teacher Naomi Kijima demonstrates how to make appetising meals in just a few easy steps. The recipes include: Traditional Japanese Favourites: Chicken teriyaki with chilled Napa cabbage, multi-coloured rice balls (onigiri) with fruit, sukiyaki with daikon pickles. Easy Rice and Noodle Combinations: mushroom rice with omelette, fried rice with tofu, rice topped with salmon and egg, chow mein with grilled fish. Lowfat Temptations: paper-wrapped snapper and mushrooms, tofu dumplings and seafood salad, golden chicken and wakame salad. Special Creation: red-bean rice and smoked-salmon rolls, deluxe chirashi sushi with grilled squid. All the main recipes - over forty in all - include step-by-step colour illustrations for preparation. Over sixty additional recipes, each illustrated in full colour, include side dishes and variations of the main recipes.
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Mouthwatering o-bento recipes!, 13 Jan 2005
By Samantha Flanders (Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I bought this book in the hope that I could recreate some of the mouthwatering o-bentos I had during a 3 year stay in Japan - this book did not disappoint! A good mixture of fish and meats, with also some soup recipes, and also all the little tasty, often 'mystery' side veggies and things too! It helps if you have access to an oriental grocery store for the ingredients but as long as you have mirin, soy sauce and sake you should be able to make the bulk of the recipes. Great book! Many happy lunches ahead of me.....:-)
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, 7 Feb 2007
By untitled no. 4 (London, UK) - See all my reviews
  
I love Japanese food and have been cooking a few selected dishes for some years now but recently wanted to try new things. I decided to go for this book not because I wanted to create bento boxes to take to work, but because I thought this book would have menus offered rather than individual recipes and I was intrigued. Since getting this book I have tried many of the bento menus suggested and I've been nothing but impressed as everything (no exceptions here) was delicious.

Regarding a few comments made by other reviewers:
1. The bento boxes menus in the book are not as easy to prepare as chucking a frozen pizza in the oven for 8 minutes but it is possible to use the recipes (or at least most of them) to prepare a bento box to take to work every morning -- I have done just so for a couple of weeks. The secret, I believe, is having an electric rice cooker and putting it on timer so the rice is ready in the morning when you are. The rest takes about 10 minutes to prepare if you arrange things the night before. (Tip: if you have an electric rice cooker without a timer, just get a separate timer. Works great!)

2. Indeed, some of the items are not your everyday Sainsbury's produce but I was able to find all of the items which I was looking for. Living in London does make it easier (you can find everything in China Town and the area) and the hardest to find items were actually found in Asian shops rather than the speciality Japanese delis, so do try it out. (Tip: Searching for images of the raw ingredients might help as the same thing might be under a different name. Tip2: Online shopping could get you many of the items you're looking for, if not fresh than dried or preserved, which is still better than nothing...)

Finally, this book achieved what I was looking for... introduction to Japanese recipe ideas I have not tried before and giving me inspiration regarding the recipes I have already known, but if I could point at one specific highlight of this book is that it introduced me to Lotus Root, which has become our favourite vegetable in the house, so don't give it a miss!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly What it Says, 8 Jun 2007
By K. Friedman (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is probably my fourth Japanese cook book. I was specifically looking for a book on bento lunches, and behold, look what I found! Many of the recipes are similar to ones in my other books, but I have found some are simplified (though JUST as tasty!) and the proportion is perfect for a lunch serving!

I don't agree with marking a book down for a lack of local ingredients. After all, it's not local cooking. You can make your own judgements about certain substitutions (like types of mushrooms) but otherwise, get yourself to a Japanese market (or use an online retailer) to get the harder to find items!

This book has really inspired me to finally get my Japanese cooking into gear. There are useful inset 'instruction' photos at various points and every dish is shown in a good color photograph. Best of all, the lunches have been fantastic!! For the amazing low price and what you get inside, I can't recommend this book highly enough.
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1.0 out of 5 stars You don't really need this book to make Bento
I am a bit disappointed of this book because I have done a lot of researches of reciepes for Bento Lunch recently. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Carol

5.0 out of 5 stars Does mostly what it says on the tin
A good recipe book, easy to make prepare. The ingredients might be a little hard for your average westerner to track down, but it is possible. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Chief M

5.0 out of 5 stars The real deal!
This is a completely authentic Japanese bento recipe book. It is full of beautifully illustrated and simple recipes for all the classics that make a bento lunch. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Reader

2.0 out of 5 stars Fun to read
This book is fun to read and the pictures are delightful. However, for me at least it is far from practical. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mme Judith Clarke

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful not just for bento but for as a quick guide to preparing Japanese meals in general
A lovely slim volume that is a refreshing change from the huge hardback tomes that one usually gets from Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Gordon Ramsay or Rick Stein. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Nilmandra

4.0 out of 5 stars Filled to the lid with ideas!
If you've ever even considered doing a proper bento box, you also know how hard it can be to come up with something that looks and tastes proper japanese. Read more
Published on 5 May 2007 by TrekkieGrrrl

4.0 out of 5 stars Delicious, but this isn't fast food!
All the recipes I've tried from this book have been absolutely delicious, and the ingredients should all be sourceable on line or from your friendly local Asian supermarket. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2006 by magdalene42

3.0 out of 5 stars good enough recipe book
This book does have a lot of good simple nice dishes and some are very traditional Japanese recipe but some ingredients are hard to find and difficult to get hold of. Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2006 by E and Z

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