My husband takes a lunch packed in a lunchbox to his office every day.
Japanese omelet “tamago-yaki”, tempura of “chikuwa( a tubular roll of boiled fish paste)” with green dried seaweed and grilled salty mackerel, and instant miso-soup. The container under instant miso-soup is a soup container. A Soup container enables you to take homemade mi-so soup.
This is called “bento” or “o-bento” and making bento is one of works of many Japanese housewives.
We make side dishes can last at least half a day.
The simplest bento is “onigiri” or “omusubi.”
Onigiri is a rice ball. To make onigiri, all you need are hot cooked rice and salt, and just form onigiri by hands with salt.
A typical onigiri is wrapped by seaweed laver nori and its ingredient is umeboshi(salted plum).
A little salt ,ingredients, seaweed laver and its shape make a rice ball more tasty and easier to eat taking it with hands.
Onigiri is also a perfect food for a picnic lunch!
