Bento!!!

There seems to be a lot of people blogging about bento. While checking out Hawaii blogs, I stumbled upon a bento-making contest sponsored by Adventures in Bentomaking. If you look through her blog, it would inspire people to start creating bentos. My favorite creation of hers is the Sanrio character dish.

My mom's friend Shar made her this bento container and my mom thought I would make better use of it than her. I've never come around to making a bento, but decided to test out my skills at attempting to make food look good.

In my "make believe" world where Calories do not matter, this is what my bento would look like. It would be filled with chocolates, Haribo gummies, and Japanese candies.

This is the healthier semi-vegetarian bento. The only animal product in the meal is the egg in the meatless meat jun. The teaser (or appetizer) is edamame with furikake. Rice with a cherry blossom design accompanined by flower-shaped zucchini and meatless meat jun (made with foo chuk-dried soybean skin) filled zucchini. Lastly the dessert is plum flower-shaped lime kanten (agar) with strawberries.


I've concluded that I'm not cut out for bento-making. While it was fun using stencils and nori punches, I am a wee bit too impatient. If I had been hungry while making this bento, I think the final result would look like the first picture (yeah, I'm talking about the empty container).

**addition***After looking at bentos online, I think I'm going to attempt a different bento. I am going to go for the cuteness factor. And strangely enough, the bentos that look cute have eyes. It's like your food is too cute to be eaten.