My Sweet Piano Bento!
Do you know this Sanrio character? My Sweet Piano is a friend of My Melody. A gentle and very sweet sheep character by Sanrio. Her signature is her pretty fluffy pink wool. She loves meringue cookies and enjoys picking flowers in the fields. (Sanrio website here, Japanese language)
Some 3 years back, I noticed the Melody and Piano Bento made by Akinoichigo , I have wanted so badly to get my hands on some pink shaved kamaboko strips to recreate the fuffly look for My Sweet Piano. Took me some time, but I did eventually manage to get them online at Rakuten Japan.
This morning I wanted to make a onigiri character bento and decided to make My Sweet Piano character. I really love the fluffy look made possible by the use of the shaved pink kamaboko strips. happy~~
The ingredients for My Sweet Piano included: cooked Japanese rice (for head and arms), pink shaved kamaboko (for wool), picnic ham (for ears and flowers), seaweed (for eyes and mouth), egg sheet (for flowers).
The side dishes today included grilled meat patties with lotus root, sauteed sweet snap peas and broccoli stems, lettuce, stir fry tofu with shiitake mushrooms. I think the lotus root minced meat patties will be so yummy – can’t wait to tuck in and eat my lunch today!
Today’s bento was packed in my Magewappa Classic bento box from Bento&co.Â
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July 20, 2014
No wonder I’ve not come across kamaboko flakes! Since you mentioned it is hard to find. It makes Piano look so cute!
July 21, 2014
Hehh I know! Its so hard to find, and some brands cannot keep for long so even if you buy, cannot buy in large quantity.
Thanks dear!!
July 18, 2014
So cute! Kamaboko flakes do sound hard to come by. Thank goodness for Rakuten!
Random, do you know both English and Japanese? Or any other language too?
July 19, 2014
Hello, I have been meaning to ask you :) what is your name? So at least I know who I have been chatting with so far and thanks for visiting my blog! Yes, kamaboko flakes is so hard to find! haha. I know and speak English, Chinese and Cantonese. Still learning Japanese at the moment. :)
July 21, 2014
Four languages would be awesome! By Chinese, do you mean Mandarin or another dialect? Did you grow up learning more than one language and learn another in school?
- Moo
July 21, 2014
Hello Moo! Good to have a name to the person I have been chatting with :D Thanks! Chinese I meant Mandarin. Cantonese is my dialect. :) I grew learning 2 main lanaguages in school (English as first language and Mandarin as 2nd language). I learnt Cantonese from my parents and when I was living in Hong Kong. Japanese was a language I took up privately on my own ;)