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January 2009

bento #28: Toon Link

January 22, 2009 bento
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I think I’ve mentioned on my blog before, but I don’t like making human characters for my bento. One of the reasons is I think it’s a bit creepy to eat human characters. I know many people will say “And it’s not creepy to eat Totoro???”, but it’s just something about human characters that weird me out a bit. Also another reason (the main reason) [...]

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bento #27: Wall-E

January 20, 2009 american
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When the trailer for “Wall-E” came out, my boyfriend was really excited about it. I’ve watched many different kinds of teasers, but all I thought “Okay… So, it’s Johnny Five in CG.” Even thought it’s by Pixar, I really didn’t expect anything at all. Bento #27: Wall-E bento Created and eaten on: 12/04/2008

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How to make Totoro with rice

January 18, 2009 characters
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Today’s how-to requires basic Asian ingredients, so it may not be for everyone, but if you enjoy cooking & eating sticky rice (Japanese, Chinese, Korean rice), this is a great way to make a main character for your bento! [How to make a Totoro rice ball] (used in “Sleeping Totoro”, “Flying Totoro”) – rice mixed with ground black sesame seed and salt (see “How to [...]

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non-bento #4 & 5: Turkey & Does this girl ever close her mouth?

January 17, 2009 american
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I’m going to do two non-bento food for today’s post. They aren’t really “bento” by themselves, but if you surround them with egg flowers (“how to make a sunflower”), sausage flowers (“how to make sausgae flowers”) vegetable flowers (“how to make vegetable flowers”), egg chicken (“how to make an egg chicken”), etc… they can turn into the main character in your bento! I did “how [...]

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My charaben book!

January 15, 2009 Blog
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This isn’t another excuse for not doing a bento blog today, but this definitely deserves an exclusive post. A friend of mine, whom I’ve known for 7~8 years since art school & works at the same company gave me & my boyfriend belated Christmas presents yesterday. I opened the package, and I could not believe my eyes. It was a hardcover book of my bento!!!!!!!!!!!

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