I bought this cute small rectangle bento box from the Clapping March Musician series few days ago and both my boy and I are in love with it.
Actually, I bought not one but a few from the same series because they are too cute displaying on the rack to be ignored.
Stay tune, they will make their appearances in my boy’s bento soon.
Today I made my boy a very simple snack bento with just a hard boiled egg, some rice, a strawberry and some dried prunes.
Last night before JY dozes off, he told me that I could make him anything for his bento as long as the amount of the food is not too much so that he could finish it in time. The little man always worry about not able to finish his food during his short morning break!
I decorated the hard boiled egg into a kitty, using rice & seaweed to make the ears, cheese and seaweed for the eyes, thin slice of strawberry for the nose and some spaghetti stripes for the whiskers. After putting these together, I found the little kitty a little too plain, so I gave him a tiny red bow tie with the ribbon food pick. Surprisingly, it makes a lot of difference with or without the tiny ribbon!
I put a small amount of the light soy sauce in the cute pink rabbit sauce container to go with the hard boiled egg.
By the way, I was delighted to see JY came home with his empty bento box yesterday. He managed to finish all the mini rice balls!
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Update: To get a round hard-boiled egg, peel off the egg shell and gently press and shape it with your hands while the egg is still warm.
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Kitty egg is so cute! Ai Ping, your are so talented bento maker. Perfect kitty eyes
Lia Chen – Thanks! I’m still way to reach your stage Lia, haha…
cute kitty kitty!~
prince n princess mum – Thanks!
Haha, I’m with you… Boxes parade is something very tempting for now and can’t help ourselves to bring them home. Oh, the cat is so handsome with his tiny red bow tie
tataBonita – Exactly! I always try to avoid walking into those bento gadget shops. I’ll never come home empty handed if I do! Haha…
the egg is super meowwy cute. great job! i can help but noticed your egg is very round! hahaa.. how come mine is always oblong with a one side ‘slightly pointed’ leh?
karen – Thanks! Oh, what I did is I gently shape the egg with hand while it is still warm to make it round!
So cute! So many things to do with eggs! Too bad my lil one doesn’t like hard boiled egg. I usually put eggs scrambled in fried rice. have a great weekend!
Mrs P – Thanks you! Initially my boy also doesn’t really like hard-boiled egg and he used to just eat fried eggs. But after a while of trying with a little bit every time, finally he accepted it!
So, you went shopping at Daiso eh?
Did not see tis box when I was there the other time guess they have new stock now.
Angeleyes – Yes yes, I went to Daiso for shopping again! Haha…I bought also the the square blue one and that is the last piece! Guess these batch is the new batch, rectangle and they have double layers too!