hotdog bun

we had hotdog ‘doggy’ bun this morning. ) have a great weekend!

bento 186 – sweetie girl bun

Prepared this as an after school snack for my daughter. in the box – hot cross bun, mini sausages, and grapes. hope she will be pleasantly surprise to find this besides the usual prepackaged biscuits or cakes. to make girl’s face – i used a mini scissors to cut hair outline and peel away the [...]

bento – hello! i am back to bentoing. ;)

after  a super long break, i am back to packing ‘cute’  food for my daughter. i have been experimenting new food to replace nori facial details. i find nori punching to picking and placing tiny ‘eyes’ and ‘mouth’ on food  a little stressful especially in a mad morning rush. it is more so when the tiny [...]

bento 177 – BEARY happy mommy and daughter

my not so little eight-year old girl gave me this on mother’s day. i am pleasantly surprised and  touched because she used almost all her weekly school allowance to buy this little frame that says …life is beautiful, when you are in my arms! … she also made two cards and crowns,  one for mommy and another [...]

bento 175 and more

this post is about two weeks overdue, sorry about that!  my poor blog has been a bit neglected lately.  i am still making bentos for the kids though not as many as before. i am not stressing myself to daily bento but as and when time permits, or when i have some inspirations to make one.  here [...]

bento 166 – crabby and mouse

gong xi fa cai to all who are celebrating the lunar chinese new year!  i am still in a chinese new year mood… and just remembered that valentine’s day is just around the corner. time to make those lovey dovey heart shaped bentos. i know my little gal will like this theme. my apologies for the lack of postings recently. i [...]

bento 165 – more bunnies

here are two old bentos that i’ve made for the kids last week. i had bunnies in mind while preparing them since chinese new year  is just around the corner (rabbit is the new zodiac sign, replacing this year’s tiger). in this bento,  boiled udon in sesame oil and abc sweet sauce, quail eggs and fishy fish ball slices. added a red ball [...]

bento 162 – fishball & sausage teddy

this was last friday’s bento. a fishball and sausage combo, made into a simple teddy. s requested for his usual fried rice, with egg. as usual i flavoured it with ‘abc indonesian’ /soya sweet sauce and sesame oil. no bento for k as she skipped school for her routine eye check-up. to make teddy, i slit the fishball and inserted [...]

Bento 151 – mr Frankenstein and friends

this is my fourth halloween bento, a lunch bento prepared with yesterday’s dinner dishes =) . a frankenstein onigiri, made with rice mix with chopped edamame. side dishes were dark- sauce potato with minced meat, vegetables saute with fish cakes and oyster-sauce chicken, steamed cocktail chicken sausage, and cherry tomatoes. all facial details cut from nori [...]

Bento 150 – mummies rice balls

coming sunday is halloween.  last few days to make halloween-theme bentos!  =)   for those who like me are not familiar with halloween celebration, click here to find out more. this was my first rice ball/onigiri. mummy onigiri mixed with hard boiled egg. k’s, a girlie version. included one girl ‘ghost’ bread egg onigiri, also my first [...]