put noodles in a plastic bottle
http://youpouch.com/2012/06/22/69622/
throw rice into the plastic bag
http://youpouch.com/2011/04/15/100001-2/
Yum. I kinda do that with my food, who needs la-di-da tupperware etc.
Im looking for a bento box, it cant be pinku (thats japanese for pink) or any girl color. It has to be of 2 or more kotoba (thats japanese for 2 compartments) and has be be chibi (small) sized. And has to be really kawaii (cute). Also It has to be about 10-20 bux. And you have to post pics of it first (i want to make shure it's kawaii [cute]). And it would be nice if it came with matching chopstick holder (WITH chopsticks). OH! and it CANNOT have any cartoon pictures, or be made out of plastic. It has to be made of ceramic, or something like that. Also it would be nice if it was made in japan. and not in china or corea (korea) or whatever. I have found a bento box similar to the one im describing in e-bay, but it was 1 kotoba, and i dont want my gohan (rice) to touch my other things (it can get wet and i would not like that, plus 2 compartments looks more kawaii)
>>3
http://www.jbox.com/product/TRD085
This is the only non-plastic bento box I found. Ceramic would be hideously impractical, anyway. When you're out and about, the last thing you want to have to do is pick ceramic shards out of your food, just because you weren't extra careful when putting your bag down. Also, ceramic containers tend to not have particularly tight-fitting lids, so spillage of any saucier dishes would be almost inevitable.
Anyway, this bento box meets the color and kotoba number requirements, and at 7.2 x 5.9 x 2.6 inches it's still pretty chibi (small) sized. You be the judge regarding its kawaisa (cuteness), as pics are up on the site I linked. The country of manufacture isn't specified by the shop, and it costs 21 bux instead of 10-20. But I figure we need to adjust for inflation since your copypasta was originally written well over five years ago, so that price still ought to be well within tolerance. Hope this post has finally brought your bento quest to an end!
>>1
Not to rain on your parade, but what do I use if I want a more saucy dish like a donburimono bento? Using plain cling film would be practically asking for leakage, and putting it in a plastic bottle would leave rice sticking to its walls.
>>1
That bottle idea would be most useful for camping. Kind of want some udon now.
>>8
He mena ``Shii''
(all these are 4chan memes/characters--there will be a test tomorrow)
Shii is a 4-ch moderator, Wikipedia administrator, and teacher. He is also a former world4ch administrator, 4chan moderator, and Jew.
>>9
"I'm looking for a bento box" is originally from Something Awful.
>>12
Also right-wing fundamentalist new-age mystic still claiming to be a skeptic.
It’s called seaweed, >>15. Or nori (seaweed), to keep with proper bento box copypasta notation.
>>16
I know, I was referring to the high-precision cut of the kana shapes. Doesn't look as if it was done with kitchen scissors, which is what I tend to use for shaping nori.
>>17
ah, well, if that's your question
It appears most people who do work this detailed use itty bitty scissors or x-acto blades and (of course) the kinds of nori that don’t flake up if you so much as look at them funny (yes, there are different kinds of nori, and dryness matters as well). e.g. http://tenpoundstaff.ti-da.net/c163444.html, scroll down to where it says 小さいはさみが便利 (“small scissors are convenient”) for an example of what I mean by itty bitty (I think scissors that size are usually used by florists?).
Some such artists process their nori e.g. with agar to make it easier.
Then there’s the matter of repeatedly trying until you get something useable. Because sometimes there’s no other way.
Also, those Pokéballs are making me really want some insalata Caprese, bento style or not.
(addendum to >>18)
Finally, some people use punches in creative ways, although that doesn’t appear to be the case for this Nivea Soft thing. I think they used roughly equal-width strips to construct their kana (it’s more believable if you view the full size image and notice how the bends in the kana tend to be either thicker or thinner).
In all seriousness here, not trying to be silly or DQN, I am amazed, AMAZED, at the work that must have gone into that bento. All to create art that someone will scarf down in a few minutes at lunch.
Then again, maybe everything humans create is ephemeral, just on a different time scale. What will happen to Michaelangelo's beautiful marble statues in a few million years? Will anyone or anything that we'd recognize as intelligent be left to appreciate their beauty, if they haven't crumbled to dust between now and then?
>>20
I would like to echo the traditional Japanese sentiment that beauty, by and large, lies in the very fact of ephemerality.
>>21
I have it on good authority from certain time-travelling acquaintances of mine that even in the distant future of the year 2012, some people still enjoy looking at /dqn/ threads from 1993.