It has been a while since I made Domo-kun Bento!

Domo-kun is the official mascot of NHK, Japan’s largest and sole public broadcaster . Hatched from an egg, Domo-kun’s signature look is his large open mouth. Domo-kun loves television :P hardly surprising~heheh

Recently I got to know an acquaintance who lamented that Domo kun is not as popular as other characters, even in bento. So I decided to make this! Hopefully he will get to see this on my blog :)

Plus I have wanted to make a Domo-kun bento since coming back from Japan. This is always the case after visiting the NHK character store where I will see super cute Domo-kun products and character goods.

The two Domo-kun are actually inari-zushi (sushi rice wrapped with aburaage). The mouth and eyes were made from crabstick and seaweed. The arms were cut from aburaage.

*aburaage  – Japanese fried tofu pouch.

The bento side dishes include sauteed chinese chives and carrots, sauteed tofu squares and shiitake mushrooms, and some Korean strawberries!

Woo hoo~ the strawberry season is approaching soon and we are starting to have lovely sweet strawberries sold at supermarkets.

Today’s bento was packed in my 2-tier white monbento. I love the white color as it is great for photography, it brightens up the food.

This is also the reason why you will notice that I often either use my white bento boxes or wooden bento boxes. A personal preference~ :)

Did you also notice the cute Domo-kun chopsticks? I love the whole set with the matching chopstick case.

Both the bento box and chopsticks can be found in Bento&co’s store.

The cute light green checker placemat is from Afternoon Tea Japan.

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Little Miss Bento has gotten some airtime on NHK World :) Here are some snapshots from the show (See SlideShow above)

The television programme, Bento the Global Lunchbox Project was aired on 14 Sept 2014 at UTC 0:10 | 6:10 | 12:10 |18:10. Singapore time would be 8:10 |14:10 | 20:10 | 02:10 (next day).

They went around the world to feature some of the bento makers and I was selected to be Asia’s representative :)

And here is a closer look at the bento that I made during the show, it was like a 15mins bento to make the characters as we were all rushing for time at the shoot! :P *stressed* wish I had more time but I hope you enjoyed the show and like this bento!

It was also really nice chat with my Japanese bento blogger friend, Maki san online for the show.

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