In the Philippines lunchboxes mostly contained only protein and carbohydrates. A high number of those lunchboxes are under this “baon” group: hotdog+rice, tapa (cured meat)+rice, eggs+rice, adobo+rice. Back when my brother was still in high school we always expect at least a 3 day tapa (cured meat) breakfast as it is also his “baon”. It’s not a complaint just an observation. So, imagine my delight when I discovered Japanese lunchboxes widely known as bento. It was love at first sight.
I have here a few of my bento creations over the past couple of months. Some I love some I’m disappointed with. I’ll get better though. I promise you that.
The chicks were made with boiled quail eggs soaked in egg yellow soup base. The faces were made with teeny tiny nori sheet cut outs.
The chicken is deep fried and coated with sesame seeds! They smell divine. The penguins were shaped then covered with cut nori sheets and cut carrots for the mouth.
The squash were made using boiled quail eggs, shaped using plastic wrap and loom bands then soaked in “curry soup”.
Yoo Jin is the name of my favorite alarm clock. She fell once and she’s not working anymore bu she this pretty face so I made her a bento equivalent. There’s cured pork underneath, hence the “surprise”.
Oh this. Hmmm, I don’t know. I wasn’t really pleased with the end result. That by the way is fried rice, and some purple sweet potato and carrots cut out.
21/03/2015 at 9:00 pmThose penguins look adorable ?
Very creative bentos!
22/03/2015 at 4:04 amThank you very much! I loved the penguins too! I was watching penguins of (at?) madagascar then so I was inspired. 🙂