Tuna Onigiri are simple rice balls with a special place in Japanese cuisine. Today, we're making a classic: tuna mayo onigiri ...

The Japanese bento box, more formally known as obento, is at its most basic level a kind of boxed lunch. But that can seem like we're selling it short. Bento takes a simple meal and elevates it by ...

As long as there is Worcestershire sauce and cabbage in the recipe, it will be Japanese-style yakisoba. Yakisoba with bread is also a staple in bento lunches these days, and I often give it to my ...

Gyudon (in Japanese, “Gyu” means beef and “don” means bowl) is a staple dish for Japanese people and we make this dish when we want to have something nice and flavoursome but have only a ...

Editor’s note: In the Every Bento Tells a Story series, Chikako Tada, editor of Pen & Spoon, a website devoted to food, writes about various aspects of making bento. There is also a helpful ...