The guys on 2chan think that the Japanese mother Mayumi was a City Hunter fan, her kids are named Ryo and Falcon.
The guys on 2chan think that the Japanese mother Mayumi was a City Hunter fan, her kids are named Ryo and Falcon.
Her ruse includes assembling each meal in her version of a bento box, a Japanese lunch box, decorated with cute cartoon characters.
It might seem like silly kids’ stuff, but that sense of fun has helped make bento boxes — obentos as the Japanese call them — increasingly popular with grownups in the United States, too.
For dieters, they are an eye-popping form of portion control. Artistic preparation of ingredients can act as a pleasant distractionfor health-conscious parents. For others, bentos are a way to make lunch pretty or indulge their love of things Japanese.
In Japan, compact, compartmented bento boxes are traditionally filled with rice, pickled vegetables and fish or meat. Japanese mothers take pride in their obentos and hope they outshine those of other mothers, said the Japanese cookbook author Hiroko Shimbo.
“Obento making is a kind of cult,” she said.
It’s approaching cult status in the United States. On Saturday in Central Park, as part of its Crossing the Line festival, the French Institute Alliance Française will be handing out bento boxes with components made by some top French and American chefs — including Inaki Aizpitarte, Pascal Barbot, Alexandre Gauthier, Michel Bras, David Chang and Wylie Dufresne.