Just Bento

I’ve noticed that several kyaraben/charaben (cute bento) oriented Japanese bento blogs are scaling back on the intricacy of their bentos recently. It gets very warm and humid in the summer throughout most of Japan, so food safety is a big issue. Complicated charaben require a lot of handling of the food, which should be avoided when the weather is warm.

I have already put together a comprehensive list of bento safety tips, but here are some top summer bento safety tips. continue reading...

In most cases, your bento lunch would have been sitting around for several hours by the time you open it. There are some precautions to take if you don’t want to get sick from eating it, which is not fun to say the least. continue reading...