#52 Christmas Kitty Bento

I believe that most of bento-fans know about cooking gallery blog. Her blog is awesome, there are a lot of mouth watering cuisines, pretty bento(s) and loads of delicious dishes too. I recommend that her blog is a must read blog as you’ll find  a lot of tips and tutorial as well. Now, she is holding a bento contest that everyone can participate ...yes it’s applicable to worldwide contestants. If you would like to know more about the contest please visit her blog very soon before contest expires. If you want to know more about the contest please click here.

I also participate to the contest even though I am just a beginner in bento-making. I feel that it’s so much fun to make bento and join the event as well. I never think to be the winner as I am aware that there will be many pretty bento(s) submitted by other participation / bento bloggers which are certainly more beautiful than mine. This is truly my confession.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it! Happy Holiday too.

Here is my entry:

#51 Baby Bear

I layered white rice into the box and put seasoned rice with soy sauce into bear food cup and locate in the middle of white rice. Since the food cup is a small cup then I name it baby bear. Inside the box: fried chicken, crab sticks, roasted sliced meat, kimchii, stir-fried garlic chay sim and two-tones quail eggs.

#50 Bear Croquette

I bought some croquettes yesterday at Jusco supermarket. As there is still one piece then I decide to decorate this left over store-bought croquette. The first comes into my mind is Rilakkuma. Yeah, I wanted to make Rilakkuma shaped croquette but it ended up dissimilar to my wish. It’s like a bear, hahaha…even though Rilakkuma is also a bear character but it has more adorable looks, isn’t it?

#49 Inari Sushi Quail-Eggs Fiesta

It has been quite sometimes to try out using the quail egg cutters but it was delayed since I forgot to buy the quail eggs whenever I went to supermarket. It sounds weird but I think I have forgetful syndrome already, hehehe….

It was quite fun to decorate the eggs although I could say that it’s not really easy as I thought. I think it’s because of the tiny shaped eggs.

Finally, I can show you the parade of quail eggs in the box. There are little bird, chick, little pig, little ox and rabbit. Beneath the quail eggs are inari sushi coated with chukka wakame, sliced salmon and sakura denbu. While the others are tofu sandwich, cherry tomato, lettuce, flower-cut carrot, apple wedge and English parsley.

#48 Miffy Bento

Hi…I’m miffy. I made of rice decorated with seaweed and flower-cut carrot. Ayam bumbu bali, recipe click here and stir-fry baby bok choy, corn kernels, baby corn, carrot and cayenne pepper. Papaya cut in cubes and mint leaves as the companion.

#47 Purple Onigiri

Purple Onigiri is made of rice with purple decofuri. The eyes and lip are cut out from seaweed using facial expression puncher. Seaweed puncher is really helpful as there will be trouble free and I can save a lot of time on this facial decoration. The other dishes are cherry tomatoes, blanched lady fingers and broccoli, tofu sandwich topped with star-cut cheese, fried hard boiled egg and few pieces of grapes.

#46 HelloKitty Snack Bento

Hello Kitty character frequently appears in my bento-making. Yes, I do fancy Hello Kitty. The character is so adorable and it makes almost everyone love it, isn’t it? I used my Hello Kitty cookie cutter to shape the plain bread and draw the face outline using the choco pen and strawberry jam to make the facial expression more visible. While the brown color Hello Kitty shaped is made of Pancake. In the other box consisted of sliced orange, peeled rambutan and half cut grapes decorated with food picks to have pretty looks.

#45 Kitty Floral

It’s a very simple bento. It’s made of rice covered with flower-cut chicken ham and Hello Kitty shaped cheese, lettuce as food divider, chicken katsu, blanched broccoli, quail egg and cherry tomato.

#44 Strawberry Bento

It’s an onigiri again. Yeay! Strawberry-shaped onigiri made of rice and sprinkled with black sesame seeds and added leaves food picks as well. The other dish inside the bowl: pink coloured quail eggs topped with sesame seeds, blanched flower-cut daikon, maki sushi, blanched asparagus, meat roll, fried triangle-shaped tofu and stripped & checkered green apple wedges.

#43 Pinky Onigiri

My intention is to make Ringo Onigiri (apple-shaped Onigiri) but I failed. The Onigiri didn’t look as an apple at all.

Inside the box are fish nuggets, decorated quail eggs, Japanese fish sausage, cherry tomato, lettuce and broccoli.