My very first Garfield Bento!

Made this something back but have not had the time to update my blog.

Garfield is always quite greedy right? heheh so here I made his favourite food ‘Pizza’ which is actually grilled tofu! Topped with melted cheese ham and cherry tomatoes slices.

I must say that Garfield was a lot more popular when I was younger. Not sure if the kids these days would even know Garfield?

To make Garfield, I shaped some orange coloured rice – made by mixing rice with orange furikake, into the oval and smaller triangular pieces for the head and ears respectively.

The eyes were made from hard boiled quail egg, which has been halved.

The cheeks and nose were cheddar cheese slice and a small piece of pink kamaboko.

And seaweed cut freehand for the rest of the details!

Am also glad that I could use my fast food bento food picks in the bento to match the theme.

Bought them sometime back. If you are interested, I got them from Bento & co.

So dont worry, this Garfield bento does not actually contain real fast food :) all healthy and homemade!

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Beauty and the Beast Bento.

I am sure many are familiar with this well known French fairytale, Beauty and the Beast.

Popularised by Disney animation remake in 1991 based on this classic fairytale, as well as several other television/films spin offs.

Continuing my fairytale bento series, I decided to make this Beauty and the Beast bento.

In the story, Belle (the head strong village girl) ends up falling in love with the Beast, who is actually a prince fallen under a spell. Their true love transforms the Beast back to his original self and of course… they lived happily ever after :D

In the Disney animation, I fondly remembered some of the other characters including  Lumière the candlestick, Cogsworth the clock, Mrs. Potts the teapot, and her son Chip the teacup.

They were actually all the prince’s servants, also fallen under the spell and transformed into household objects.

I did not have time to make so many characters, so I only made Cogsworth the clock. Cogsworth is actually minced meat patty with its details added on using slice cheddar cheese and seaweed.

To represent Mrs Potts the teapot and her son, I used little rement pieces to decorate the bento.

Belle (Beauty) and the prince (beast) were mainly made out of riceball, with details added on including egg sheet (for hair, beard etc), seaweed (eyes, mouth), pink kamaboko (cheeks), seaweed and cheese (horns). 

Bento side dishes included sautéed French beans with carrots, lettuce and cherry tomatoes. I also cooked a pot of black chicken herbal soup (not pictured) to pack along for a wholesome lunch.

Packed today’s Beauty and the Beast bento in my magewappa box from Bento & co. The smaller bento box is from Afternoon Tea Japan.

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Hello Kitty Pancakes Bento!

Dining in or bento take away for you? Hehee, presenting two possible pancakes presentation with Hello Kitty theme.

I actually lost track of when was the last time I actually used this Hello Kitty pancake pan.

In fact, I don’t even think I actually posted on my blog on this before.

To be used only over gas stove, this non stick hello kitty pan makes pretty awesome Hello Kitty shaped pancakes.

Actually my recipe today is more hotcake than pancakes. While to most people outside Japan, hotcakes and pancakes seem to mean the same thing, they are actually quite different for Japanese.

Hotcakes are more fluffy and usually sweeter with the addition of egg, milk and sugar in its batter. Hotcakes are also often enjoyed with maple syrup or other sweet toppings etc. While pancakes are usually not as eggy in taste and less sweet in its batter. It can be enjoyed more with breakfast items like hotdogs and bacon.

For my Hello Kitty hotcakes, I paired them with fresh fruits including kiwi and raspberries. And two homemade chocolate macarons.

As I have some additional batter left, I divided the batter and added a little colour and made rainbow coloured mini pancakes (or hotcakes).

The ribbon mark was made using my customised branding iron from Japan at Kappabashi street in Asakusa.

Did you also noticed the super cute mini Hello Kitty sausages? I found them at AEON supermarket in Hong Kong and was so super thrilled!

They are so cute I had to buy a couple of packs home.

I hope you like today’s breakfast creation!

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Teddy Bear Omurice Bento.

Or more accurately egg wrapped rice :D bento. A simple design, variation from my Hello Kitty Omurice Bento made sometime back.

I cooked a pot of Watercress pork ribs soup to warm the tummy for lunch, so decided to pack a small bento to go with my soup.

This is easy bento to make, just utilitise some of the cute cutters that you have.

A similar recipe to make the deco omelette egg sheet is also shared in my Kawaii Bento cookbook. 

Here is how to make this deco omelette:

• 2 eggs
• butter
• 0.5tsp corn starch, dissolved with a little water
• cutters

1. Separate one egg white from the eggs. Add in the dissolved corn starch and mix well. Strain the mixture to remove the gooey parts of the egg white. Set aside
2. Mix the remaining yolk + 1 egg in a bowl. If there are a lot of bubbles, please strain to remove the bubbles.
3. Butter your frypan. Pour in the egg from step 2 and cook under low heat.
4. Turn off the heat when the ends are about 80% cooked. Let the remaining heat in the pan cook the egg for about 30secs or so.
5. Remove from pan and lay it on a cutting board. Using your cutters, cut out the shapes as desired.
6. Place the egg sheet again in the pan. Slowly scoop in the egg white mixture from step 1 into the cut outs.
7. Cook the egg again using low heat until the egg whites are cooked.
8. Remove. Wrap your rice with the deco egg sheet.

The side dishes for today’s teddy bear omurice bento included some sauteed prawns, cherry tomatoes, lettuce and blanched broccoli.

Prepared a cup of matcha latte with a deco latte sheet (deco cheat) haha. Loving these deco latte sheets. They are so cute right.

The Japanese words ‘がんばってね’ means go your best, a form of encouragement.

Here I am encouraging myself and you (reading this)! :) For me, I really hope that my newly launched cookbook – Kawaii Deco Sushi will do well. Please do read more about my new cookbook here and support me too!

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Panda Quail Eggs for my bento.

Decided to make a simple yaki-udon bento today, and the cute factor are the pandas!

Actually I wanted a one-dish item today, and yaki udon is one perfect menu choice. Just throw in all the ingredients, followed by the noodles and sauteed in a pan. Yummy!

Taking inspiration from my Panda chopstick rest, I made the panda quail egg characters.

One facing up and one lying on the stomach with its butt up. :P

It was a little tricky wrapping the egg parts with seaweed but still quite okay. I did regret not using black beans instead. Might have been much easier.

Packed the fried noodles in my round enamelware bento box. The brand is Noda Horo.

Loving Noda Horo’s high quality products and affordability. I bought mine in Japan and heard from my Japanese friends that this brand is well known and popular amongst the homemakers.

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I am so excited to share more about the launch of my upcoming new cookbook  titled ‘Kawaii Deco Sushi‘.

Yes, this book is all about cute decorative sushi.

And each recipe is fully illustrated!

I was doing a promo video over the weekend in preparation of the launch so I made this bunny deco sushi for the video.

Hop hop hop~~ this bunny deco sushi is not only cute but also very yummy!

This time round, I came up with original designs of 29 deco sushi recipes, under various themes including: Garden, Autumn, Animal, Food, Transport and Romance.

Learn and make deco sushi from flowers, to cute animals, a police car and even a watermelon!

Prepare these deco sushi to brighten any table, bento box or picnic basket, and rope in children and guests to join in the fun!

‘Kawaii Deco Sushi is already in stores now at major bookstores and online stores are taking pre-orders. Please see more details here.

If you are coming over to Singapore or residing here, please join  me at my Official book launch which will be on 11 July 2015 (Saturday) 4pm at Kinokuniya Takashimaya store.

I would love to meet you and of course be happy to autograph the cookbook!

This Bunny Sushi recipe is included in Kawaii Deco Sushi cookbook under Animal theme section.

This time, instead of pink fish floss, I used salmon flakes to colour the rice, hence a slight orangey pink colour.

The recipes are very versatile, like this example, you can choose to change the colours slightly according to your own preference. There is a very useful colour chart in the cookbook that guides you on how to use various food ingredients to colour the rice into different hues.

I am so excited to show you the final edited video!

Stay tuned for more updates~~

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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)

• Japanese rice (body)
• egg white (eyes)
• seaweed (eyes)
• vegetable sprout

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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Bob Minion Bento!

I think you guys might expect a couple of minions theme bento this 2 weeks. Totally thrilled and tickled by the minions movie that I watched over the weekend.

We are so lucky that the minions movie opened here in Singapore, even earlier than in US. Haven’t watched yet?

Then you got to check out their trailer (so funny!!!) via their Official website.

If you have watched the minions movie, you would then know of the 3 key minion characters in the movie, Stuart, Kevin and the cutest Bob.

Bob always carries his super cute bear plush toy along, aka like a ‘chou chou’ (local context).

The bear plush toy’s name is Tim.

Bob has a childlike personality that is so adorable!!!

Source: minionnation.tumblr.com

I knew that I just had to make this Bob Minion Bento.

Bob is currently my favourite minion~

To make Bob the minion and Tim the bear, here are the ingredients

Bob Minion

• Japanese rice with egg yolk (body/arms)
• seaweed (hands, mouth)
• blue egg sheet (jumper)
• Japanese rice wrapped in seaweed (shoes)
• sliced egg white of hard boiled egg + seaweed (eyes)
• grey egg sheet (goggles)
• seaweed (goggles’ band)

Tim Bear

• Japanese rice with bonito rice sprinkles (furikake)
• chicken ham + seaweed (button eyes)
• seaweed (nose)
• picnic ham (mouth)

I hope you like this bento as much as the fun I had making it.

Making this Bob Minion bento made me smile as I was creating the character :D

The side dishes included sauteed french beans with carrots, lettuce, grilled spicy fish patties and meat balls.

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Miffy Raincoat Bento!

After a terribly hot and warm summer of late, we enjoyed a fairly cooling weekend with rain showers. How nice~

The showers brought much needed respite from the days of hot weather.

I hope the cooling weather can stay a little longer! Even Miffy feels the same way ;)

Miffy dons a yellow raincoat and carries her brolley for the rainy weather.

What a fun Miffy bento to make!

You might also noticed the super cute cloud trays in the styling shots.

Totally in love with these super cute cloud trays from @things-to_make_and_do, a store/cafe from Bangkok Thailand.

I was really lucky as they had a pop up store with Public Garden on Saturday at Suntec Convention Hall and I was able to grab some of their lovely tableware.

Plus I have wanted to go to Public Garden‘s event for the longest time. So glad I made it this round.

Of course, I could not resist and bought a whole lot of other things too from the various stores featuring handmade goods, tableware, acessories, quirky designs, clothes etc.

I am already looking forward to the next Public Garden event.

The cloud trays had also inspired me to make this Miffy Raincoat Bento.

For those of you who bought my Kawaii Bento cookbook, there is a bento recipe in the book under Weathers, where I also featured a rainy day bento.

The raincoat is very similar, except that this round the character is Miffy.

To make the raincoat, you can refer to the illustrated recipe for making egg sheet in my book too.

Miffy is really easy. Just shape some Japanese rice and add on the seaweed details for the face.

The side dish for today’s Miffy Raincoat Bento is a simple sauteed broccolin with prawns and carrots.

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Doraemon Bento

Recently I had a few people who has asked me to make Doraemon, and most recently a colleague mentioned that she likes Doraemon.

So here it is, a Doraemon Bento. I not only made Doraemon but also Dorami-chan, she is the sister of Doraemon.

Like Doraemon, Dorami chan is also a robot from the future, in fact she often display far more advanced abilities than Doraemon. Yellow in colour, her red ears resembles a huge bow on her head. 

To make Doraemon, I coloured the rice using some blue pea flower extract when I cooked the rice.

While Dorami chan is coloured using egg yolk that was mixed in with Japanese rice.

Doraemon Ingredients

• Japanese rice
• Blue Japanese rice (rice cooked with blue pea flower extract)
• Crabstick
• Seaweed
• Canned peach

Dorami chan Ingredients

• Japanese rice
• Yellow Japanese rice (rice + egg yolk)
• Blue Japanese rice (rice cooked with blue pea flower extract)
• Seaweed
• Crabstick
• Red sausage

Using super yummy Koshihikari rice (my current favourite!) from Thinkrice.sg.

The side dishes for today’s Doraemon Bento included laksa meatballs, sauteed broccolin with baby corn, lettuce and carrots.

Yes, laksa meat balls! Using Dancing Chef’s laksa paste, I mixed some of it into my minced meat, seasoned it and grilled the meatballs. They smell so good and I can’t wait to try them!

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