While trying to cook new recipes for my bento since I started two months ago, I’ve never done a bento using the menu from our usual cook book. It’s true that most of our usual dishes are not bento materials, but of course some of them can be made into nice looking bento. And that’s [...]

I wanted to make this monkey burger about 2 weeks ago, but I need to find black olives first for the eye part. We can buy olive oil in almost every supermarkets but it’s really hard to find the real olives (the green one) let alone the black olives. Now I know the place that [...]

After made the Spongebob bento with nasi uduk, I want to make some more bento that using Indonesian menu, or just the menu that I used to make for my family. One of my favorite menu is nasi bakmoy, I really love this menu because I used to order it at a restaurant during my [...]

My wife wanted to eat ‘nasi uduk’ (coconut milk rice) for today along with its usual side dishes like fried chicken, omelette egg, chicken floss, along with vegetables like cucumber, tomato, and lettuce. Since there were lots of food I think it’s best to utilize some of them (or all) for my bento today. So [...]

My wife really loves fried noodle and haven’t eaten it for a while so maybe it’s time to make some for her. Like my previous chicken noodle bento there are lots of variations of fried noodle around here. We have a Chinese, Javanese, Aceh, and other versions. They are made basically using the same method [...]