Its hard to get more traditional than the japanese bento box in a way its the perfect meal it might include an egg roll rice pickled vegetables breaded chicken and even nourishing miso soup each in its own section of the bento box the word is derived from an old japanese word for convenience and convenient this boxed meal certainly is in this 3 hour cooking class in the center of kyoto learn the art of cooking up a bento box meal master chefs demonstrate and then turn the kitchen o