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“Hideo-kun! What do you want in your lunchbox for school tomorrow? Ham and cheese? Peanut butter and jelly? Or how about Solid Snaaaaaaaake!”
The image you see here, ladies and gentlemen, is genuine, 100% completely edible food. We’ve seen colorful character bento lunchboxes before, but this is something else.
As part of its 25 years of Metal Gear and Final Fantasy celebrations, Japanese game developer Konami has had a set of truly amazing lunchboxes made for a photo event. Featuring characters from both of the long-running series, the lunchboxes are so detailed that they almost look like waxworks. No matter how many times we look at these things, we can’t quite get over the fact that it’s actually food.
This game-cum-bento celebration project has reportedly been underway since October this year, with a tremendous amount of thought going into not just the designs and which characters to feature, but also their ingredients. Taking their work very seriously, the staff at Konami worked with food experts from around the country to select the best blends of rice and vegetables, and also used specially selected eggs that retail for around 500 yen a piece. Make no mistake; no expense was spared in these lunchboxes’ creation.
The bentō were put together by members of the Shoku no Sutajio (The Food Studio) who worked secretly for months getting the designs just right. After putting together over 200 prototype lunchboxes, they finally settled upon the perfect four.
At the Final Fantasy and Metal Gear anniversary party, producers and industry legends Hideo Kojima, Yoshinori Kitase and Yoji Shinkawa were presented with the “ultimate bento” in recognition for their work to date. Here they are posing for our photographers like the proudest schoolkids ever.
Let’s take a look at the lunchboxes in detail and see how they were constructed.
Snake’s head and moustache hair was made from oil-coated oven-baked white onion. All three faces were made from mashed potato. Your mother was wrong what she said not to play with your food. Snake’s headband was made from nori seaweed wrapped around dry-cured ham. Raiden’s locks were made from the same onion. Old Snake’s eyes? Quail eggs.
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Robert Dykes
Sorry. For me lunchbox does not equal bento box. Lunch box is a metal thing your lunch goes in. Bento is a prepared or packed lunch. I thought you could actually buy a mg metal lunch box.
zabutonsenbei
I always teach my student that a bento is a boxed lunch, not a lunch box. It seems to work pretty well. These are amazing boxed lunches though!
FightingViking
Thank you for clearing that up for me ! I really thought they meant a "Lunch Box" !
Utrack
Man, I thought that Bento was for sale. Thank goodness it isn't though cause it freaked me out. It's too lifelike to eat.
Dara Danh
wow... just. wow! amazing. such work of art, and not just this. I'd seen many photos of bento that's homemade and made in store, just the simpliest of things looks very good and enjoyable. Some are really works of art that you really can't believe you can eat it, but u CAN! and even then, you just don' t want to dig in and ruining it.