A kawaii Totoro bento for Friday!
Its finally Friday~ work has been crazy this week and I am so glad its the weekend. Even though I still have to work tomorrow -__- haha.
Totoro has always been a classic character, and something that I always come back to when making charafood and kyaraben.
Since its Friday, I decided to make myself a happy and cute lunchbox. So Totoro it is!
I was too lazy to colour the rice for the Chu-Totoro (medium size totoro) so I decided to simply mix it with a little ground black sesame to create a light grey hue.
The O totoro (large Totoro) was then wrapped with seaweed instead. So this way, I will have different tones for the Totoro characters.
The ingredients included the following:
O Totoro (large Totoro)
- Japanese rice (body)
- sushi seaweed (to wrap the body, facial details, tummy marks)
- cha soba noodles (whiskers)
- egg white (eyes, base of nose)
- ham (mouth)
Chu Totoro (medium Totoro)
- Japanese rice + ground black sesame (body, tail)
- Japanese rice (tummy)
- seaweed (facial details, tummy marks, whiskers)
- egg white (eyes)
Chibi Totoro (mini Totoro)
I also finally used for the first time (i think) my custom made Totoro branding iron that I customed made in Tokyo. So cute right?
The side dishes included sauteed vegetables with pork belly, broccoli, lettuce, cherry tomato and tamgoyaki.
Have a wonderful weekend ahead!
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June 29, 2015
So cute! And I love that custom made Totoro branding iron! Out of curiousity, is there a particular shop you will frequent to custom make these? Is it along the Kappabashi stretch in Tokyo?