Bento2016#Jun24~Totoro/HelloKitty/Kiiroitori

20.06.16 (Monday)

•  Totoro: Rice underneath then covered part section with nori and black sesame mashed potatoes as Totoro
• Side dishes: Shimeji mushroom with asparagus and chicken seaweed wrap

21.06.16 (Tuesday)

• Hello Kitty: Separated the egg whites and egg yolks to made the eggsheet. 
• Today's menu: Simple fried rice with french beans, chicken, carrots
• Fruits: oranges and grapes

22.06.16 (Wednesday)

• SpongeBob: Eggsheet, egg whites sheet for eyes and nori for all detailed
• Today's menu: Simple fried beehoon with fish cakes, chicken, nuggets
• Tomato sauce container: Some chilli sauce instead of ketchup ^_^
• Fruits: Kiwi fruits

23.06.16 (Thursday)

• Kiiroitori: Yellow quail eggs (soaked with turmeric water) carrots and nori detailed
• Main dish: Rice, chicken floss
• Side dishes: Broccoli, carrots (butterfly), edamame, gyoza

Bento2016#Jun10~WinnieThePooh/MyMelody/Totoro

07.06.16 (Tuesday)

• Winnie The Pooh: Yellow rice made out from hard boiled egg yolk mixed with rice. Freehand scissor cut out nori for Pooh detailed.
• Side dishes: Pea sprouts, shiitake mushroom, seaweed chicken wrap and apple.

08.06.16 (Wednesday)

• My Melody: Pink rice made out from Biogreen Pink Lady Oatmilk powder mixed with rice since I don't have sakura denbu at home ^_^ The pink colour turned out pretty well and I don't have to worried anymore whenever running out of ingredients. 
• Blue ribbon: Hard boiled egg soaked with blue pea flower extract (no time to soaked it longer so the blue turned out lighter) 
• Side dishes: Brocooli, chicken katsu, carrots cut into star shaped and some grapes.

09.06.16 (Thursday)

•  Chu Totoro: Pastel blue hard boiled egg soaked overnight with blue pea flower water
• Eyes: Cheese and nori
• Dishes: Organic noodles, carrots, prawn gyoza, milk cabbage and oranges (not shown) 

Bento2016#May27~Gudetama/HelloKitty/Totoro/Mickey/Minnie

23.05.16 (Monday)

Gudetama

On Monday, I made Gudetama still sleeping Zzz.... because I'm on the sleepy mode too :D Gudetama made of hard boiled eggs and nori detailed. Side dishes have bacon, broccoli, carrots and plum. Simple and easy designed ^_^

24.05.16 (Tuesday)

Mickey & Minnie

On Tuesday, I made Disney Mickey & Minnie Mouse Tsum Tsum. Freehand scissor cut out both disney character nori detailed then shaped two big onigiri for heads and four smaller onigiri for ears. Inside onigiri with chicken floss fillings and side dishes have prawn gyoza, cheese tofu and spinach.

25.05.16 (Wednesday)

My Neighbor Totoro

On Wednesday, I made Totoro theme bento. First, I filled up the rice then add the cut out Totoro tofu skin (freehand scissor cut out Totoro). Next cover up the broccoli on top of the rice and lastly add on Totoro detailed. Side dishes have pan-fried fish fillet, potatoes wedges and fruits (apple/oranges/sour plum)

26.05.16 (Thursday)

Gudetama Hello Kitty

On Thursday, I combined Gudetama and Hello Kitty into one ^_^ Gudetama yellow rice made of hard boiled egg yolk mixed with rice. Kitty-chan just plain rice and nori detailed. As for side dishes have pea, carrots, hard boiled egg (1 slice), taiwanese sausage and plum.

Bento2016#Mar11~My Neighbor Totoro Theme Bento

This week I've planned to made "My Neighbor Totoro" theme bentos ^_^ I hope you like it!

Day1: 7/3/16 (Monday)

Totoro

Totoro rice : Black sesame powder mixed with rice

Eyes : Cheese/Nori

Dishes : Star shaped chicken nuggets & stir-fried mushrooms with bok choy

Day2: 8/3/16 (Tuesday)

Mei Kusakabe

Mei Kusakabe : Cheese (Face/Hat), Nori (Hair/detailed), Crabstick (Red & white detailed)

Dishes : Chicken cutlet coated with bread crumbs, rice and pea shoots

Day3: 9/3/16 (Wednesday)

Nekobus/Catbus

Catbus/Nekobus : Brown rice (dark sweet sauce mixed with rice), Nose (taiwanese sausage)

Eggsheets : Eyes, ears and seats detailed

Nori/Seaweed : All the black detailed

Dishes : Broccoli, pan-fried sausages and taiwanese sausages.

Chibi Totoro & Susuwatari

Chibi Totoro : Rice (I used cling wrap to shaped it)

Susuwatari : Kambu (Boiled seaweed and used circle cutter) Eyes (crabstick white part/nori)

Mini Chibi : Quail egg with nori detailed

Dishes : Yam samosa, chicken pandan wrap, pea shoots, shimeji mushrooms and fishball

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So which characters bentos you like the most?     

Bento2015#Dec10~Snoopy Bento

Have you watch the Snoopy And Charlie Brown: The Peanut Movie? I have not and been busy lately for my work before I can take few days break next week with my family :) Since I can't enjoy the movie for the meantime why not I make bento instead ^_^ I remember my dear talented friend tatachan @bonitafood once made cute Snoopy out from quail eggs! So cute and easy to create, she even shared the tutorial photos at Instagram! Click the highlighted link for Instagram or her Blog. 

A close up photo for my Snoopy and quail eggs ^_^ I fill up the rice full and half section add stir-fried veggies on top and leave the other half section to create a simple Snoopy design by just adding nori. Pardon me for the messy freehand scissor cut out nori details especially the eyes :p
 

As for side dishes have chicken katsu, mayonnaise at the sauce container and some grapes.

Do you see a bigger bento box next to it? I didn't make use of the Snoopy bento due to round shape and small space for me to add all the dishes. I got it from Universal Studio Osaka, Japan and they sold as Snoopy meal sets so we can bring home the bento box ^_^ 

Bento2015#Nov16~Green Angry Bird

Continue my Angry Bird Theme bento and this round I make "Green Angry Bird". Too bad my green AB not that green in colour because I use mashed cooked edamame. May be I didn't add a lot of edamame so end up lighter green AB =_=" 

Anyway, I am still happy with my female AB creations. Do you like it? 

Here's the close up Green Female Angry Bird ^_^ Shape the mix edamame rice with white rice and I add some chicken floss fillings. Carrots for the beak and nori details for eyes/feather.

This is the male AB :D 

Underneath the Angry Birds have pea sprouts, prawns, cheese fish rolls and Korean grapes.

Yay just few more Angry Bird colour themes to make for my next round! Gambateh!  

Bento2015#Nov05~Red Angry Birds Bento

Angry Birds bento theme again ^_^ This round I make "red" Angry Female Bird for the leading role and tiny male next to it. Actually, I want to make both female but I don't have enough time =_="

A closer look of the Red Angry Birds! To make red rice, I mix the rice with ketchup. Crabstick for the eyes (white/red), carrot for the beak, cheese as ribbon and lastly freehand scissor cut out nori details.

For side dishes have pea sprouts, baby corns, fish balls, potato wedges, chicken donuts and some grapes.

I hope you like today's Angry Bird Bento sharing. Have a lovely Thursday!

Bento2015#Oct30~Angry Birds Bento

Have you watch the official teaser trailer of "Angry Bird Movie"? My daughter can't wait to watch the movie but still long way to go because release date on May 2016 =_=" Well, she can get her bento from me :D So I make a female angry bird in blue colour.

Today the school extended the school hours for replacement lessons (When there is no school for the past few weeks due to bad haze) so I need to prepare lunch for them ^_^
 

A closer look of the female blue bird and smaller male blue bird on top ^_^ To make the rice blue, I use butterfly pea flower extract mix with rice. Freehand scissor cut out the nori details, carrot for beak, crabstick (white) for eyeballs and red part for ribbon and underneath eyeballs.

For side dishes have broccoli, panda chicken wraps, yam samosa, grapes and ketchup (Monbento sauce container).

I hope you like today's sharing and wish you all have a blessed coming weekend ^_^

Bento2015#Oct22~Snoopy sister Belle Bento

I bought new toy for my Tomica collections ^_^ Look at Snoopy sister "Belle" pretty and long eyelashes!!! My girl said: "Mummy, make Belle bento instead of Snoopy :D" So here you go.... my first attempt making "Belle" as Tomica car shape.
 

Here is my closer look Belle! Underneath Belle is pea sprout with goji-berry (goujizi). To make pink rice, I mix some sakura denbu and shaping using cling wrap. Freehand scissor cut out the nori details and I left out making the car screen pink :)

For side dishes have chicken cheese donuts and potato wedges.

I hope you like today's sharing bento ^_^ 

Bento2015#Oct21~Bon Bon Ribbon Bento

My girl requested Bon Bon Ribbon character for her bento ^_^ So what usually most mother will do or perhaps father (that make bento) surely try our best right? 

I cook some macaroni for their lunch and I make Bon Bon Ribbon out of rice using rice mould. Save me a lot of time :D

Here's the close up Bon Bon Ribbon. I mix the rice with some sakura denbu for pink touch and cut out the crabstick using the provided cutter from Bon Bon Ribbon rice mould set :) Nori for the details.

For the side dishes have oven homebaked chicken fillets, spring roll with some mayo on top.

I hope you will like today's bento. Have a lovely day and thank you for the visit ^_^

Rilakkuma Deco Mashed Potato Steamed Buns

It's baking time since I have some orange sweet potatoes to make deco steamed pao ^_^ This round I make Rilakkuma using the same recipe but just add some cocoa powder for brown colour. To view the recipe can visit HERE my previous Winnie The Pooh Deco Steamed Buns.
 

I prepared the dough at late evening while cooking dinner for my family. Well, I'm happy that the dough rise up well and time to shape into Rilakkuma. On the other hand, my girl already helped me rolled the red beans into 12 balls each ball is 10g for the pao fillings. Each dough I use 40g for each ball and I make sure have balance dough to the ears ^_^  
To make brown dough, I mix some cocoa powder to the natural dough. This took me quite some time to knead it until smooth. (*Sorry that I didn't use any measurement for the cocoa powder, all base on the brown colour that I prefer)
To make black detail simply add the natural dough with some charcoal powder and knead until smooth. 
 

The balance black dough just nice to create Jiji Cat ^_^ While steaming, the pao skin not as smooth as the Rilakkuma =_="
 

I hope you will like this Rilakkuma Deco Steamed Buns. Happy Thursday! 

Bento2015#Oct07~Halloween Spirited Away No-Face

My 2nd Halloween Bento for this year ^_^ Do you know which Japanese animated film from the bento above? I'm sure very easy right? It is from "Spirited Away" character called as "No-Face (Kaonashi)" and "Bou" (Yubaba's son that turn into a mouse).

Here's the close up characters. To create "No-Face" nori, you may draw on a baking paper first and trim out together with nori. I skip it by just freehand scissor cut out the nori :p Opps! Cheese for the No-Face with nori details as well ^_^ To create "Bou", simply mix the mashed potato with little bit of charcoal powder to make it grey. Finish off with nori details! Lastly, I add two "Sootballs" and I followed the picture from Google search image.

For side dishes have pandan chicken wraps, fishballs (bats nori on top) and grapes.

I hope you like my Spirited Away for Halloween Theme bento. 

Have a great day and thank you for your visit!

Bento2015#Oct01~Hello Kitty Mashed Potato

Yay! Kids back to school today although the haze still bad this morning. I was at home on leave to stayed with my kids for the past two days (main job is to cook and make sure they don't just PLAY but revision). So what's for today lunch bento? I can't think of any idea but I want to try out playing with the mashed potato using the cream flower mould ^_^ (saw it at Snapdish)  

Here's the close up Hello Kitty mashed potato. Underneath is rice with some chicken floss. Honestly, this is my first attempt using the cream flower mould for the potato and is not easy compare to icing cream =_=" I took quite some time to squeeze out the mashed potato because some flower shape not nice so I redo. Freehand scissor cut out the nori details for Hello Kitty, nose make of corn and crabstick for the red bow.
 

For side dishes have spinach, fish balls in Hello Kitty design and gyoza.
 

I hope you like today's sharing bento. Have a lovely day and hope the weather will be better.

Bento2015#Sep28~Hotel Transylvania 2 Bento

Have you watch "Hotel Transylvania 2"? My kids can't wait to watch part 2 ever since they watched Hotel Transylvania. Especially my daughter so excited and we had a great movie hang out together during the weekend as well with my family. 
So I made this bento during the weekend and took me some times to update it today :P 
  

Here's the closer look of Dennis & Dracula Grandpa ^_^ Aww... think back the movie scene Dennis red curly hair super cute with big round eyes :D I didn't buy the organic red yeast noodle (used to bought it) due to my kids dislike the taste or else will be perfect to create Dennis hair here. Oh well, I use carrot instead and to make Dennis/Dracula face, I mix the rice with ketchup and shape them up by covering with nori details.
*Mostly freehand scissor cut out nori details.

For side dishes have chicken katsu with mayo and some broccoli. I also added the "Happy Halloween" food pick to match the upcoming next month Halloween Day :D Am I too early?

I hope you will like this Hotel Transylvania 2 Dennis & Dracula Bento ^_^

Bento2015#Sep23~Charlie Brown & Snoopy

I want to use the Snoopy lunch box that has been hiding inside my cabinet for quite some times :p Actually quite a lot of lunch boxes that I hardly use anymore due to the small compartment. 

Well, I make Charlie Brown hugging Snoopy and think I have not make Charlie Brown before ^_^  

A closer look of my Charlie Brown and Snoopy onigiri. 

Charlie Brown: Rice mix with ketchup and nori details.
Snoopy: Rice and nori details. 

For side dishes have broccoli, carrots, baby corn, chicken donuts shape and some grapes.

I hope you like today's sharing and good news that I can have enjoy my bento break again ^_^ Have a great mid week!