Japanese portions are small and the japanese are skinny, American portions are large and Americans are.....

All Except #14 are of breakfast, not lunch.
#14 is of lunch.
No major difference anyway :-)

No way!
It's Dinner.
too small for us!
from japan.

> Some foods look strange

like what? so you've never been to a japanese restaurant in your life?


> and the portions are sooooo small :)

and when you multiply 'small' by 'many', what do you get? even in france you have multiplication, non? mais oui?

How interesting to read that most of these are breakfast trays, not lunch! And me thinking they looked like seriously appetizing lunches :-)
Eating a variety of small portions is terrific, but indeed nothing revolutionary. Think of Lebanese Mezzes, or in my own France things like crudités or a plateau de fruits de mer. 12 small dishes make as big a meal (but more fun to eat) as one giant single dish. (it's a lot more work to prepare the meal though).
I wish I could afford to go travelling through Japan for a month or two. I'd love to take a train and have one of those "binto" box lunches (spelling????). I hear they're something special.

Bullshit

i would take that any day over the CRAP overpriced food we have over in America... Yes America the food sucks!!!!!

Some are breakfast, some are lunch. The portions are small but gluttons can have seconds for rice, and sometimes the soup too. And kids who eat 3 or 4 bowls of rice,,, yes they look like average Americans!

@ Si : Its not "Binto" its "Bento". Yes, Its interesting. They said, inside this "Bento" box there are variety of meal. Special for lunch only.