My Favorite Vivo Bento Boxes

Ingredients for Bento (serves 1) - Potato Salad - 40g Potato (1.41 oz) 10g Carrot (0.35 oz) 400cc Water (1.69 u.s. cup) 1/2 tsp Salt 4cm Cucumber (1.57 inch) A pinch of Salt 1 tbsp Sweet Corn 1/2 tsp Vinegar A pinch of Sugar A pinch of Black Pepper 1 tsp Mayonnaise 1 Cherry Tomato - Chicken Karaage - 50g Chicken (1.76 oz) 2/3 tbs Kimchi Base or 1/2 Soy Sauce + 1/2 Sake + Grated Garlic 1 tsp Potato Starch Frying Oil - Honey Glazed Pumpkin - 40g Pumpkin (1.41 oz) Honey Toasted Black Sesame Seeds 1/8 Apple - Onigiri - 140g Fresh Steamed Rice (4.94 oz) Noritama Furikake - Egg & Seaweed Yukari Furikake - Red Shiso Leaf 2 sheets of 19×5cm Toasted Nori (7.5x2 inch) - Spinach Tamagoyaki - 1 Egg 40g Spinach (1.41 oz) 1 tsp Soy Sauce 1 Vienna Sausage 1/2 tsp Oil **Trick to make bento in the busy morning is preparing the ingredients the night before or using premade ingredients from the market. ** Recently, bento regained its popularity in Japan for its safe and balanced diet and many Japanese bring their own bento to school and work. About Music: Frederic Chopin - Valse in D-flat major "Minute Waltz" - Op. 64 No. 1 Play by Muriel Nguyen Xuan, recording by Stephane Magnenat Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/