Ok, as promised, this is the follow-up post of my yesterday’s Little Mantou Boys bento on the step-by-step how I made the mantou boys.
It was actually quite easy to make the mantou boys with the help of all the handy seaweed punchers.
The first photo shows the 2 punchers that I used to get the facial details for the mantou boys.
All right, here we go…
1. Cut two thin and long slices off from the carrot with the slicing knife, and steam the carrot. Do not over steam because if the carrot become too soft, it can be hard to shape.
2. Cut all the sides of the carrot slices following the green lines to make tidy stripes out of them.
3. The result, you will get a long rectangle stripe and another shorter stripe with one sharp end.
4. Fold the shorter stripe over the long ones as shown in the following photo.
5. Pin them onto the mantou with tiny stripes of spaghetti and you are done with the scarf for the boy. Now I realized I didn’t take a photo of the result of this step! Anyway, please refer to the final result photo to see how I did it.
6. Punch the seaweed using the 2 punchers shown in the first photo (if you don’t have the puncher, you can always cut free hand, which of course will need a little more patient 
)
7. Cut the flower shape into half to make the hair of the boy.
8. Select the combination of facial detail from the seaweed punched with the shoe shape puncher.
9. Stick all the seaweeds to the mantou with a small amount of either mayonnaise or butter.
So here are the two mantou boys with carrot scarves I made. Hope you have a fun time making yours! 
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The step by step instructions is really helpful for people like me who are completely new to bento lunch box.
RoseBelle – Glad that you find it helpful! Will try my best to capture more step-by-step when I make my boy’s bento, of course if the time allows.
谢谢老师，原来它的领带是萝卜！
june@june – 试试看这样你小瓜会不会吃掉那萝卜!
Wow! got step by step somemore..
prince n princess mum – Hope it will be helpful to those that want to start bento-ing
Thank you very much for the tutorial! 又学到东西了
anncoo – You are welcome! Glad that you find this useful
May i know where you buy this facial puncher?
Ivy – I bought it via a friend from Japan. But I think there are few online shops selling locally now.