Popeyes released the collectible Popeyes x One Piece merchandise, including the Popeyes Luffy Bento. It has since sold out.

The real treasure is the chicken we ate along the way.

Bento boxes aren’t just about food—they’re about love, balance, and creativity in every bite. From classic Japanese flavors to global twists, they make lunchtime a joy. With smart prep and a little ...

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In “Bento Monogatari,” a Belgian short film that was released in 2010, a woman makes her husband a bento box for lunch each day, in an attempt to salvage their marriage. Traditionally, bento is a ...

If your child brings lunch to school, a quality lunch box is a must. After all, they’ll be toting it with them every weekday for nearly ten months. A lunch box can help keep their food organized, at a ...

We don’t think of the bento box as an important innovation, but we should. Created sometime in 12th or 13th century Japan, the bento box arguably invented food packaging as we know it today. The ...

Everyone from school children to salary men in Japan look forward to when the lunch bell rings, signaling it’s time for bento. The artfully-arranged boxes boast different compartments, each filled ...

Growing up outside of Tokyo, Chef Kenji Miyaishi’s mother used to send him off with bento boxes of onigiri rice balls, karaage fried chicken, tamago-yaki egg omelets and vegetables from her garden.

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 video in ...