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I'll second your positive feelings about the Malm. It's low, simple and clean, and it's been shockingly sturdy. In the brown-black it looks a lot more expensive than it is. I've surrounded it with other higher quality and stylish modern pieces and it really elevates it, I call it strategic use of IKEA.

Definitely not a bento box, which is Japanese, but a Tiffin which is the Indian equivalent. The cylindrical stacking shape is the key difference.

From Wikipedia:
In other areas like Mumbai... The lunches are packed in steel or tin boxes, also sometimes called tiffins or tiffin-boxes. A common approach is to put rice in one box, dal in another and yet other items in the third or fourth. The other items could be breads, such as naan, vegetable curry and finally a sweet. This system delivers thousands of meals a day and does not use any documents as many Dabbawalas are illiterate. It has been claimed that the tiffin delivery system of Mumbai is so efficient that there is only one mistake for every million deliveries.