There is no difference in the usage of bento and boxed lunch, but the terminology is different.

The word bento first originated in China during the Southern Song Dynasty in the colloquialism bento, meaning something convenient, convenient, smooth, the word was introduced into Japan, had to Road, Road, Road, and other epithets, after the counter-introduced into China is derived from the Japanese bento (pronounced: bentou) refers to the boxed meals, and more has been simplified to translate into Bento.

Bento is customarily known as boxed meals in most parts of the mainland, i.e., boxed meals. In Taiwan, it is generally referred to as Bento, and is usually used for lunch, take-out, and work meals.

Bento is actually our boxed meal, all home-cooked, and every ingredient in it is so seemingly unimpressive. The whole secret is in the way it's done: who's first, who's last, who's left, who's right, who's got more, who's got less, it's all got to be put in place. Like a play, someone has to plan it, and this time the liar is the director. With the director, the boxed lunch is no longer a boxed lunch, but into a lunchbox. The con man's mind is sometimes hidden in the container.

Some bento boxes, separated into a number of small compartments, each small compartment only put a variety of dishes into it, it will become as delicate as jewelry, a grid after the arrangement, there is a kind of harmony of the beauty of the difference. When you eat, you are excited but also a little anxious, eat one will be less a treasure.

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Box lunch is convenient, low-priced, and tasty

The box lunch industry, also known as the fast-food industry, is a major catering feature of the rice-based nation. With the transformation of the urban life pattern, eat at noon to bring their own lunch box meal situation has become increasingly rare, the rapid development of fast food industry in metropolitan areas.

The main supply of boxed lunches are students, factories and institutions of the staff and patients in hospitals, the price of 8 to 10 yuan above the most, the content of the dishes and nutritional content with the price changes, roughly the main dishes such as deep-fried pork ribs, chicken thighs, half-vegetarian dishes such as eggs, meat stir-fried vegetables and vegetarian dishes. 90% of the boxed lunches in the middle of the day as lunch, Chinese, Western or mixed all kinds of prices are still reasonable.

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The only lack of the current box lunch industry is gradually getting rid of the past kitchen preparation, from the improvement of the working habits of the staff and the working environment, the use of institutionalized purchasing and scientific production system, in order to be able to achieve the desired nutritional and hygiene goals.

The boxed lunch is a convenient food widely loved by the urban working class. Characteristics of the box lunch franchise is different from the Western-style fast food restaurants, such as McDonald's, KFC hamburgers, potato fries, fried chicken, spaghetti and other food in the box lunch franchise should not operate. The general Chinese fast food, often chicken, duck, fish, meat a brain mixed in a lunch box, forming a hodgepodge of rice.

Specialty boxed lunch does not engage in this set, it is a single supply, with a unique flavor rice style, beef curry rice, pork curry rice, chicken curry rice, bologna rice, pork ribs rice and so on. The flavor of each box is simple and distinctive, and many people eat it at any place and any time, and young people like it even more.

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