The burger meat was made with ground beef, bread, onion, and some seasoning. The double onigiri on top and bottom of the burger meat and the burger meat also was shaped with the cylinder rice mold so they’re in the same size. To called it grilled onigiri was a bit incorrect since I didn’t grill them but just put them on a low heated frying pan without cooking oil at all. The result was really good, it had great smell and the frying process added more flavor to it.

For the bento box arrangement, I put the burger first, then the meatball and cherry tomato, then corn and peas to be the based for the quail bunny ears. The bunny face was made with pea for the nose, pea skin cut with emoticon vegetables cutter for those eyes and mouth, and carrot cut with straw for the cheeks.

Again I didn’t have good idea for the other box, I just put a half mandarin orange and arrange some vegetables in tidy fashion.

To celebrate this event, I made this special mealbox onigiri with the cube rice mold with MEALBOX cheese lettering made with the alphabet ham/vegetables cutter.

The mini carrots was cut from real carrot with knife and broccoli. I like the result, but I forgot to take their picture in close up. Next time when I made them I certainly will not forget.

The salmon was oven baked after marinated with soyu and other seasonings an hour before. I added a slice of lemon and leek to minimize the ‘fishy’ smell of salmon which my wife don’t like. The alumunium foil paper was used to prevent the liquid soyu sauce from leaking.

And for the fruit, since we still have lots of kiwi in our fridge, I had to use them before they become spoiled. The v-shaped cutter is mandatory for kiwi since the result looked great, easy to made, and have no parts to waste (except the skin after we eat them ) .

I just need to put the lettuce on top of ham and rolled them over, and cut them into 3 parts, very practical. I prepared chicken karaage also for this meal with a pair of yellow quail from the fridge, I prepared lots of them for making several animal shapes but found not enough time do to that

I still have unused rice mold from my bento equipment, so I used the flower shape mold to make the onigiri, added circle shape carrot for small detail.

I also realized that when making 2 bento box, I tend to concentrate my effort on one box (usually the main meal) and left completely blank idea on what to do for the other box. It also happened this time. I didn’t have any ‘clever’ idea for the vegetables, so I just cooked, cut, and then arranged them just to fill the box.

Luckily I have this very nice kiwi/fruit V-cutter. This is a very handy tool to have for decorating food, very easy to use and you’ll get the result quickly. If your friend don’t know that’s a tool to do that, I’m sure they will amaze when you show them those cut kiwi

The lemon chicken itself was a failure since while the frying process was good, I put too much lemon juice on the fried chicken before wrapped them with nori so the taste was sour (but it still look quite delicious on the picture :p).

Again I first trial my new bento equipment, this time I used the 4 shapes rice mold, but I only using three, the heart, triangle, and star. I put the X carrot (cut from alphabet ham & vegetables cutter), tiny star cheese (from the same set of alphabet cutter), and added pink furikake. They didn’t have any meaning, I just put them to add some colors.

I saw the twin little piggy on one of my bento mook I had. Quite easy to make, just need to find the right size of carrot and then cut one fourth circle shape of cucumber for the ear parts. I used toothpick to attach the carrot to the body (quail egg) and add the usual sesame seed for their eyes.

Since I had lots of cucumber and carrot  I add them to my bento, cut them in bites size and put them on the silicon tray (of course they also new, they all new ) along with some kiwi and pear bites.

Very easy to make, just bread with ham plus scramble egg and chopped broccoli. Put them together to make regular sandwich and cut them into several pieces to fit into the bento box.

Since we have lots of fruits in the fridge, I put some red and green grapes, strawberries, a slice of green apple, two slices of red apple, and tiny chunks of apple to fill the extra space.

I saw the rabbit ear apple decoration in several bento sites and decided to try made them myself. Had to made several try to do decent shape, need very sharp knife to do it though. The bad thing with apples is they change color very quickly even if we put them in salted water first before we packed them, but luckily the taste do not change very much for several hours.

If you have spare time to read further, besides want to share the bento I’ve made on this website, I also want to invite other bento lovers (especially Indonesian bento maker) to share their work since I know lots of you are making them out there. I noticed that right now lots of bento making tools are sold in lots of places in Jakarta (Carrefour, Food Hall, Ranch Market, Daisho, etc.) and during my regular visit to some of those places their inventory are rotating so I assumed those bento tool are selling well. I also found an online Indonesian bento tools seller and it seems lots of people are buying from them but I can not find any of their work on the web.

Please contact me if you have a bento flickr page, websites, or blogs and I will add you to my link list so we can create a great community to share our works and our ideas.