I didn’t have too much time preparing for my bento so I just used a couple of meatballs and seafood tofu bought from Food Hall. I rarely bought processed meat other than sausages but I wanted to try them for a while, so here we go. Those meatballs and tofu melted very quick from freezer [...]

I decided to make bento with chicken katsu menu. Chicken katsu is arguably the most popular Japanese dish among Indonesian, and the staple menu in every restaurants that offer Japanese dishes. FYI, chicken is the main meat among Indonesian since moslems don’t eat pork (and 86% Indonesian are moslems according to Wikipedia) and chicken is [...]

Since my last lemon chicken was a failure, I really wanted to try that recipe again. So lemon chicken again for today. I had never used sausage before while there are so many sausage decorations that can be done with bento that I would like to try, so it’s sausage time also. The problem with [...]

Another breakfast bento, I had this pastei pies and decided to make a bento with it. Pastei pie is one of many Dutch culinary recipes that very popular among Indonesian (we call it ‘pastel’ and they can be bought in every traditional markets and most modern pastry stores). Essentially pastei is a pie with vegetables, [...]

I browsed on the web and decided to try making lemon chicken as my next bento menu. Besides that I’m new at bento making, I’m also new to cooking. I never cook an instant noodle before I was 21. I didn’t know how to cook rice on rice cooker before I was married at 28. [...]