Nobody knew where the word bento was origin of. What it is known is that Japan had been the first and still uses bento boxes till this day for the last thousand years. Though they used there own type bento boxes everywhere else in the world had started using bento boxes in everyday lives. You probably have your own type of bento box like the plastic containers you have in the kitchen. Below we will go over 2 different types of food that are very popular used in Japan in bento boxes. If you like to find some amazing bento box ideas click here.

Sushi are usually put into bento boxes like other meals. People usually think that sushi always contains some type of raw fish but thats not the case. Sushi has many ingredients involved like cucumbers, rice, sesame seeds, seaweed and it could have the option of vegetables, crab-fish, salmon, shrimp or cream-cheese. Sushi’s originally was invented to be used to preserve fish. The rice when fermented would store the fish for up to a year. When the fish was needed from storage they would throw away the rice and use the fish. This whole process was called narezushi. Than in the 16th century an idea was formed where instead they should use vinegard rice so there wouldn’t be a need to throw the rice out and because of this idea sushi is now what it is today. The few pictures below show you a few pictures of some very delicious sushi I took, this sushi contains crabfish.

Another well known food used in bento boxes are Fresh Spring Rolls or Nama Harumaki. Spring rolls are actually originated from Vietnamese. The japanese people actually add a little twist to the spring rolls by using there own dipping sauce . The Spring Rolls are made of rice paper and wraps the roll that contains vegetables and shrimp. Its a very popular dish mostly among women who are looking to be in a diet. You can also fry them in a pastry sheet, which is well known in America as “egg rolls”. Above the last few pictures I took show you what the spring rolls look like.