hapa bento

Not very scary but for this year’s Halloween party, Hello Kitty  donned her black wig and transformed herself to Aloha Kitty!

A hardboiled egg is Kitty’s head with nori for hair, flowers are watermelon radish, tomatoes, and takuan.  Thai black rice, romanesco (my first time!), enoki mushrooms and shiso leaf recreate her tropical paradise!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Our carb-fest continues! 

You can make an omelet out of almost anything… why not an omu-chowmein?

Shoyu chicken and the last (for now) of the amber cup squash are perfect compliments.

And since it’s  near Halloween, I placed a token “Jack” cut from a watermelon radish.

Green onions and nori provides the finishing touch.

Look what arrived in the mail today!  This awesomely cute “Elph’s Circus” bento box from Japanistic!

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I was creating a Hello Kitty squidoo lens for the Kawaii Bento Club  when I suddenly realized that I do not have any Hello Kitty bento boxes!  I was shocked as I have quite a stash of cute bento gear and miscellaneous Hello Kitty stuff.  I guess in my mind I merged the two collections and assumed that at least one of the boxes  represented our “Queen of Kawaii”… Hello Kitty!  But I was wrong and very dissapointed in myself.  

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It seems like I’ve been dragging my feet to uphold my end of the bargain and recreate the winning recipe from our recent “M4SB Giveaway” winner Lauren (Lumi)!    But I promise it was just me being a “space-cadet”… do people still use that “term of endearment”?

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A quick post for small bento box as it’s been awhile since I featured one of Saba Man’s midnight snacks!

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Today’s featured bento demonstrates the use of  cucumbers  to separate your food items.

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This third speed bento of  the series will only take you 20 minutes to make when you have pre-cooked  frozen rice in your bento-stash.

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