Quick Bite: Bento Box Lunch at Sushi Kame

For $6.99, you have your choice of teriyaki chicken, steak, salmon, or calamari; a small lettuce salad; several pieces of vegetable tempura; two slices of a California roll; rice; miso soup; an amuse-bouche-size noodle and cucumber salad; and hot tea (if you ask for it).

Yes, you read that correctly. The tasty morsels in the bento's five compartments plus noodle salad bite plus miso soup and hot tea—they're all included in the $6.99 price. And just the food in the box alone—the meat and vegetable teriyaki, the tempura, the sushi, the salad, and the rice—makes for a very filling meal.

I paid $1 more to substitute fried rice for the steamed rice that normally comes with the bento boxes. I love steamed rice, but I must say that the extra dollar was well spent: the fried rice was very tasty and it brought added fat to the proceedings, which I constantly crave on these frigid winter days.

Note that bentos are priced higher at dinnertime (and contain more food).

There are also lunch specials starring various Sushi Kame makizushi (sushi rolls). Our friend, and photographer extraordinaire, Ms. B, enjoyed one such special on the same day that I sampled the bento; feast your eyes on the Love Love Roll lunch special on her blog.

The service was quick and friendly. There's lots of convenient parking in the Hill St. parking garage just steps away. No down side to the lunch specials at Sushi Kame! Go give them some love love back.

Sushi Kame
132 West Church Street (between Nitaya and the Art Theatre)
Champaign, IL
217-356-3366
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Thanks to Tim J. for giving me the heads-up on the lunchtime bentos at SK.