I never learned English literature but I know that this character was based on Marry Shelley’s novel with the same name, but what then perhaps there’s been misconception that most people thought that the Frankenstein is the creature’s name while actually in the novel it was the name of the creator. But anyway, it’s way more fun to create this Frankenstein creature than the good doctor himself.

The design was very simple and I only need three colors of pasta sheets. I added some carrot jack-o-lantern to add more colors to the overall kyaraben.

For the bento filling, I made shrimp rolade and add broccoli, corn, and Ferrero Rocher chocolate ball ^_^

The difference of this puzzle style cutting with those layered cutting are the former is usually simpler but looks flat while the later is usually more complex and need longer planning but the finished look is somewhat more three dimensional (if cut and layered the right way).

I also cut some bats to accompany the flying witch, oh I really wish that I can get those cute bat shaped pasta that the Japanese moms usually use for their Halloween bento.

For the bento filling, I made some ebi furai (this time I can make them straight) and put the usual corn and broccoli with pomegranate. I really love those pomegranate, they look like ruby stones.

Since we’re in October, so it’s time for some Halloween theme kyaraben. Among veteran bento makers this theme have already done to death, but usually the involved party include pumpkins, bats, ghosts, full moon, witch wearing black hat, skulls, dracula, frankenstein, black cats, and many others.

For this occasion I tried making a devil costumed Hello Kitty. Its fairly easy to make, I made the base brown color and cut the parts puzzle style. I didn’t need to use nori at all, all I need to do was cut her eyes and whiskers on the white head part, simple and clean. I am always happy if I can avoid using nori for details ^0^

I add the usual Halloween pumpkins for more Halloween feel. The pumpkins were made with carrot and cut using my apple shaped vegetable cutter, then I cut the leaf part to make it look like pumpkin and cut the eyes and mouth with art knife.

The bento filling is usual Japanese style with chicken katsu, corn, broccoli, and strawberry konyaku jelly. This time instead of white rice I made Japanese fried rice.

I could talk about games for hours but I should create another blog for it since I only want to talk about bento and cooking related stuff in this site. So I searched for Mario ghost and I sketched it on my notebook. I knew it will be quite a challenge to make the ghost exactly like in the game.

I never made a complex shape onigiri before so I must figured it out the right approach for it. I made a ball shape onigiri first for the body and then create the ghost tail and two arms separately, then I pasted them one by one into the body part. They didn’t blend well at first so I had to sculpt it more with my fingers. The shape was getting better although it’s not exactly the same as my sketch but I decided to stop tweaking the shape since I was afraid it might break. The last thing I did was push the center body part to make the mouth shape to make the onigiri more 3D like.

As for the details, the eyes were nori cut with emoticons nori cutter added with round shape cheese cut with straw. The mouth was nori cut with scissors. Those triangle fangs were cheese cut with knife. Lastly, the Rolling Stones tongue was made with ham shaped with scissors.

The funny thing about the ghost on those Mario games is while they’re big and scary, actually they’re quite coward since they only chase Mario (and friends) when Mario not facing them and the ghost will stop and shut their eyes everytime Mario is face to face with them ^_^

As for the scared mushrooms, they’re very easy to make, the key is to find cherry tomato with the right size. If we can find it, then we just need to cut the cherry tomato into half, remove the inside and put it on top of the quail. We can use toothpick or half-cooked spaghetti as toothpick replacement (if we afraid someone will accidentally eating the toothpick) to keep the mushroom head and body together.

Once the mushroom intact, we can add the details. The circle can be made using cheese or nori, which ever you’d like. Since the mushroom on Mario games is white (bright colored), I used cheese and cut them with straw. The eyes were nori cut with my trusted emoticons nori punch.

For the filling, I made some lemon chicken and covered them with lettuce to separate the fried dish with the vegetable and rice portion. I put corn to add some bright yellow into the mix, the usual broccoli chunks for green color and to fill those small gaps, and seedless grapes at the bottom part.

This was the fourth Halloween bento I’ve made these past two weeks, I really like making themed bento but I think I should stop making Halloween theme bento since I’m afraid I won’t have good ideas for next year Halloween unless tonight I’ve got another idea for a really simple Halloween theme bento.

I still like white rice better, but I love red rice for its unique and natural color, and it’s perfect for my Halloween bento ^_^

I used 100% red rice to achieve darker color for the night sky. Not as dark as I expected but it’s still good. My wife suggested using black rice for great dark color, maybe I will try that someday, but I have to buy some black rice first (never bought and ate it but I know it’s very expensive).

The crescent moon was made with a slice of cheese cut with a bottle cap. The clouds were from slices of kamaboko (Japanese fish cake) and cut with knife. And those bats were nori cut with scissors.

The bottom part was regular bento filling, (from left to right) a strawberry, corn, a pair of quail egg skulls, two shrimps, a slice of marinated grilled salmon, edamame with food pick, and a broccoli chunk, with two pumpkin jacks carrot slice. I made more than two jacks, but there’s no more space to put them all. Those quail skulls were the same cut as my previous bento but I used nori instead of cutting the holes with a straw so they’re not the same like the skulls from yesterday.

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