Bento Book

I received this book from Japan today. It's quite the picture book for a bento fan like myself. It's written in Japanese, so my guess is that each bento entry is associated with a train station and has a list of contents. Notice the little picture underneath the big picture. I think that is the entire package as it is when purchase.

So cute! I feel like traveling around Japan by train to sample each bento.

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This fun little cookbook has a variety of recipes suitable for bento as well as a regular meal such as karaage (Japanese style chicken nuggets), tonkatsu (pork cutlets), tamagoyaki (Japanese omelet), and jyagatama (potato balls). They even provide instruction on how to use chopsticks and how to set the table. And they also give you a recipe to make your own udon noodles. Now that I must try!