Rice paper roll bento

It’s been a while since I posted a bento photo here. This was made for a wedding picnic I went to two weekends ago. I didn’t want to buy chips or other junk food but I also didn’t want to bring “hardcore” raw food to the party, so I made Vietnamese veggie spring rolls (recipe [...]

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Review: MILA chia seeds

Hi everyone, thanks for your enthusiastic comments in my last post on dealing with raw turbulence. I’m enjoying the dialogue and it’s why I keep this blog alive. Today I’m going to talk about a brand of chia seeds, MILA, that was introduced to me by a fellow rawbie in Tokyo, Trine Mork. She very [...]

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A week of salads

After coming back from my vacation, I went through a spot of “raw turbulence”. It sounds like a dramatic term but I think at best I would describe it as a period of internal conflict — I want to be more raw and I believe in it but I craved cooked food. Or I kept [...]

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Carrot avocado bisque

Hisashiburiiii….(means it’s been a long time in Japanese) I was very pleased with today’s raw lunch — carrot avocado bisque and purple cabbage coleslaw. As usual I was reading Gena’s blog and she had a link to her classic carrot avocado bisque recipe which I just had to try. It was super easy but super [...]

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High-raw spring rolls

Sorry for the long absence but things are hectic here at Raw Bento Headquarters. It’s been a week since my return from Moscow but I took off on a short weekend getaway to Nagano — a beautiful prefecture northwest of Tokyo — with friends and did a lot of indulging on top of little sleep. [...]

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