Hello Kitty bento
I had this Hello Kitty onigiri mold and have only use it once and it’s time to give it a try again. When I started making bento I thought that all those rice and onigiri molds are the essential tools for making bento, but after made lots of bento nowadays I used less and less of them since we can make all shapes with our hands. But I must admit if we want to make lots of same bento in the same day then those molds are great equipment to have for make things faster.
I only used the rice mold for the head and added the facial details with nori, corn, carrot and cheese for the ribbon (both using vegetable cutter) while the arms and legs were done with my hand.
The other filling for this bento are my usual bento stuffing; broccoli chunks, corn, heart shaped sausages, grapes, and tamagoyaki (below the corn and sausages). I put fried tempeh for the first time in my bento box as the meat replacement which I think can be a great bento filling since we can cut its shape into almost anything, its hard enough to maintain its shape while its soft enough to be cut with bento standard vegetable cutter.
As for cooking tempeh, for us Indonesian tempeh is a very popular food (sold in every market and very affordable) so there are lots of variation on how to cook them. The most basic is we slice the tempeh bar thinly (about 0.50 cm thick), deep fry those slices and then eat them with sweet soy sauce or sambal along with warm rice and other foods.
And if we want to add more flavor to it, after we slice the tempeh bar, we can marinate them with chopped shallot and garlic, coriander, and salt with a little water for about 1 hour before we deep fry them.
Very nice bento indeed!
I’ve yet to try Hello Kitty till now… but I guess I won’t do any till my girl is big enough to appreciate bento!!
Btw, thanks for popping by my blog! I’ve bookmarked you!
Thanks for taking your time visiting me, I’ve bookmarked you also ^_^
Hi… your blog is so inspiring. I have 2 kids and the first one is going for Kindergarten school this July. so I’m very excited to try out these Bento
May I know where can i find the Bento making tools that you mentioned?
Thanks
Rinny
Hello Rinny, thank you for the comment, really appreciate it.
If you live in Jakarta, you can try looking at Japanese import stuffs section at Carrefour, FoodHall, Ranch Market and Hypermart or visit Daiso at Mal Artha Gading.
You can find some onigiri molds, food picks, sauce containers, and food baran (divider). But for more nicer stuffs you should try looking online at eBay or other sites.
While those tools are helpful sometimes the best way of making bento is just using art knife and scissors ^_^
i’m really amazed looking at your creation. I’ve just learned about bento since my daughter is at elementary right now so she must bring lunchboxes.
wish sometimes i can make bento as beautiful as these….
Hello Jennie, thanks for the comment. I’m sure if you make a bento everyday you’ll challenged to make more sophisticated bento
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Hi….really nice to meet your blog , I hope can learn more and more from you coz i’m realy a beginner ^^
I will try to make simple hello kitty first, hope will be success
Hello Linda, thanks for visiting, we all learn most of bento stuff on the web, so we can always learn from each other