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Bento #85: Dollies bento

May 25, 2011 american

The first time I went to Derek’s place, I was surprised to see that his place was filled with stuffed dolls made by his sister Clara. (Yes, Derek is manly enough to display his love for cute things and plush dolls. I’m so lucky!) She is an art teacher/fine artist and in college her boyfriend’s (now husband) senior film was a cute animation with characters [...]

Bento #80: Santa Totoro!

December 31, 2010 bento

It’s a little late but with all the blizzard stuff going on, and going up to Boston for a couple of days to hang out with Derek’s sister’s family, I finally found the time to post this. Bento #80: Santa Totoro! Created and eaten on: 12/25/2010 I can’t believe it’s been a year since I made Bento #31: Totoro snowman last year but it was [...]

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bento #75: Totoro temari zushi

March 25, 2010 bento

Wow it’s been more than a week since I blogged?! I didn’t mean to turn this into a weekly blog, but things been even more chaotic around me recently. I have so many things I want to write about, but since I haven’t written any bento/food related blog posts recently, I’m going to post this one. Bento(?) #75: Totoro temari-zushi bento Created and eaten on: [...]

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Bento #72: Setsubun Totoro

February 3, 2010 bento

Today, February 3rd, is the day of Setsubun in Japan. It’s the day to drive away evil spirits, which means to throw roasted soybeans at Oni (evil creature/ogres from Japanese myths). In almost all kindergartens and schools, students make an Oni mask for Setsubun, so that kids can take the mask home, have someone wear it, and throw soybeans at them. “Roasted soybeans are thrown [...]

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Bento #69: Nekobus #3

January 19, 2010 bento

Hooray! I finally made the first kyaraben of this year! I wanted to make it a lot sooner, but I just couldn’t come up with an idea. I thought of making a different/easier bento but I really wanted the first kyaraben to be “new year themed.” I was worried about not finishing it on time since I was so out of touch, so I made [...]

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Bento #68: MGS4

December 6, 2009 bento

I can’t believe it’s already December! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I’d post what I did for Thanksgiving later, but I think I’ll post a kyaraben I made the other day first since I blogged recently. Bento #68: MGS4 Created and eaten on: 12/4/2009

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Bento #67: Keepon

November 17, 2009 american

I wrote before how much my boyfriend likes Keepon. He asked me to make Keepon bento many times so I finally gave in. Bento #67: Keepon Created and eaten on: 11/9/2009

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Bento #66: Noby Noby Boy

November 11, 2009 bento

I had a day off last Friday to get ready for a birthday party the following day. It was for an adorable 3 year-old boy of our close friends. I had a whole day to make Totoro cream puffs and chocolate covered Domo-kun marshmallows. I didn’t have to wake up early, but for some reason I got up very very early. So I decided to [...]

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bento #61: Summer Totoro

September 11, 2009 bento

I made kyaraben the day I left for PAX. It had been awhile since the last time I made one… but the weather was getting no so summery, and I wanted to make something before the summer was over. Bento #61: Summer Totoro Created and eaten on: 9/3/2009

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bento #58: Sitting Totoro

July 14, 2009 bento

Since my previous bento was a big failure, I needed to make something I’m more comfortable with. And nothing makes me feel better than this guy. Bento #58: Totoro sitting on a tree Created and eaten on : 7/14/2009

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bento #56: Moving day Totoro

July 2, 2009 bento

Like I mentioned in my previous blog post, my company has been in the process of moving for the past week, and because of this we had July 1st off. I knew I wouldn’t be able to make bento until next week, so I decided to try making a “stay-home” bento. When I decided to make a bento to eat at home, I realized something. [...]

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bento #52: Rainy day Totoro

June 4, 2009 bento

I wasn’t planning on making a bento this morning. I didn’t do any drawing the night before and I woke up late. (the time I usually wake up when I don’t make bento) I looked outside and it was raining. Again. So I decided to make a bento to cheer my boyfriend (and me) up. Bento #52: Rainy Day Totoro Created and eaten on: 6/4/2009

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bento #51: PenPen and Lilith from Evangelion

June 2, 2009 anime

While I was making Prinny bento, very naturally, as an otaku, I thought of this. Bento #51: Evangelion PenPen & Lilith Created and eaten on: 6/2/2009

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non-bento #15: quail egg Prinnies

May 30, 2009 bento

When I made the Prinny bento, I had prepared some food to put in the bento, but I couldn’t used it because I ran out of time. I didn’t want to waste it, so I just put it in our regular bento. Non-bento #15: Quail egg Prinnies Created and eaten on: 5/29/2009

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bento #47: Ano niku (manga meat)

May 2, 2009 anime

While I was making my Totoro with cherry blossoms bento, I was trying to figure out how to use all of the Inari-zushi skins. I usually buy canned Inari-zushi skins, and a can contains about 15 skins. I wanted to use them in a bento again, but I’ve already made Totoro and Nekobus… In the meantime, I’ve been working on a new bento idea, but [...]

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bento #46: Totoro with cherry blossoms

April 30, 2009 bento

After making three Castle Crashers related bento in a row, I needed to take a break. I do adore the characters from the game, but every bento is a challenge for me. I struggle, get frustrated and learn (from big mistakes, usually) while making them. Those three bento definitely were not an easy challenge. So, again, it was time for Totoro for me. Bento #46: [...]

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bento #43: Castle Crashers

April 11, 2009 bento

I worked on the sketch for this bento for about 2 weeks, but I just couldn’t draw it. I thought about not doing this and moving on, but I just hate giving up, and my boyfriend and I love this game so much. After failing to make it about twice, I made Totoro Parade bento to keep me motivated, and finally I made it. Bento [...]

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bento #42: Totoro parade

April 4, 2009 bento

I had been working on a sketch of a kyaraben for a week, but it just didn’t look like it’d work out, and I was feeling pretty bummed. (I can’t tell you what it is yet! I hope I can make it next week.) You know what always makes me feel better? Totoro! Bento#41: Totoro parade bento Created and eaten on: 4/4/2009

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bento #41: Ryuk from Death Note

March 14, 2009 anime

When I made the Braid bento, I had some extra quail eggs left over from the bunny, so I put them in my bento. Later on, the pinkish color of the egg has turned to blue-ish purple. As I was eating the egg, I remembered something… Bento #41: Ryuk from Death Note Created and eaten on: 3/13/2009

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bento #40: Braid bento

March 7, 2009 bento

There was another bento I’d been wanting to make for a long time, but I knew it would’ve been difficult, so I had been putting it off. I really had to get it out of my system, I just decided to go for it. Bento #40: Braid bento Created and eaten on: 3/6/2009

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bento #35: Tingle

February 10, 2009 bento

I was going to do this bento when I made my Toon Link bento, but I ended up not putting him because I ran out of the time. When my boyfriend was going aroundthe office to show his bento to co-workers, I was telling my friend that I was going to put this guy in the same bento. That friend, a huge gamer, said “No, [...]

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bento #34: Battlestar Galactica

February 7, 2009 american

I knew exactly what I was going to make this day. I had to make this on this day, no matter what. Bento #34: Battlestar Galactica Created and eaten on: 01/16/2009

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bento #31: Totoro snowman

January 29, 2009 bento

After I posted how to make a Wall-E sandwich on December 21, I started getting a lot of traffic to my blog, my flickr and my boyfriend’s flickr. At the time, I was still writing about my older bento on my blog and using my flickr to post pictures for my blog, so I decided to make a bento for people who were visiting my [...]

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bento #29: Moyashimon

January 24, 2009 anime

My boyfriend and I watch anime at home regularly. Sometimes it’s new, sometimes it’s old. There was this one anime that came out in Japan two years ago, and I had always wondered about what it was about. Well, I knew what it was about, because the title explained it all, but I wasn’t quiet sure how they did it, and why it was so [...]

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bento #27: Wall-E

January 20, 2009 american

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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bento #25: Flying Totoro

January 10, 2009 bento

After getting my game bento rush out of my system I decided to go back to my all time favorite theme. Totoro! I wrote in my blog before, but I think I’m best at copying things. I like figuring out how to make food into a character or how to recreate a certain scene, but I’m not good at coming up with something original. So [...]

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bento #22: Farm bento right side

December 27, 2008 original

Whenever I make bento for my boyfriend, he’d show it to his friends at work and upload the pictures of bento on his flickr account and show it to other friends. One day, a friend of my boyfriend told him about a lunch box contest. I wasn’t that interested in the prizes, since they were a heavy duty lunch box and a rice cooker (I [...]

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bento #20: Portal

December 23, 2008 bento

After Professor Layton, I was still in the mood for making game bento. I had many ideas for game bento, but they weren’t “finalized” yet… But I couldn’t sit on them forever, so I decided to try what I’d been wanting to make for a very long time. Bento #20: Portal Created and eaten on: 11/06/2008

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bento #18: Jjij from Kiki’s Delivery Service

December 18, 2008 bento

This was one of those Ghibli characters I always thought about making but I just never did. The one that looks so easy to make. Maybe it’s even too easy… And that was why I never thought it’d be a challenge. Bento#18: Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service Created and eaten on: 10/30/2008

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How to make a Japanese snowman

December 14, 2008 characters

Maybe this isn’t really a “how-to”, but since it’s winter and all, I thought I’d do this anyway. I made a snowman very similar to this for Katamari bento. (I used fake sausage instead of carrot for its hat) [Japanese snowman, a.k.a. Yuki Daruma] – two quail eggs – seaweed – baby carrot (you can also use normal carrot or sausage) – uncooked pasta – [...]

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bento #16: Sleeping Totoro

December 13, 2008 bento

After my Katamari bento and Super Smash Bros. Brawl bento, some video game sites put the pictures of my bento on their sites. Even though I’m making bento for my boyfriend, any compliments are always encouraging. So, I gathered my courage to revisit “bento #1: Totoro made out of rice”, which was my very first and the most embarrassing kyaraben I’ve ever made. It wouldn’t be interesting [...]

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bento #15-R: Super Smash Bros Brawl Pikachu & Mr. Game & Watch

December 11, 2008 bento

Second round, Pikachu and Mr. Game & Watch (For Yoshi and Kirby, check out this page) Bento #15-R: Super Smash Bros Brawl Created and eaten on: 10/23/2008

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bento #15-L: Super Smash Bros Brawl Yoshi & Kirby

December 9, 2008 bento

After having so much fun making the Katamari Damacy bento, I wanted to make more video game themed bento. (yeah, I’m simple like that) I made a list of video game characters my boyfriend liked first, and looked at each character to see which ones could be made out of food. I knew that he LOVED Yoshi from Super Mario World when he was young (and still [...]

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bento #14: Katamari Damacy

December 6, 2008 bento

Since I started making bento most my bento have been Studio Ghibli themed, and I wanted to make something different. My boyfriend and I love video games. We each own a PS2, an Xbox 360, a Wii, and a DS lite. So I decided to make a video game themed kyaraben for a change. I looked at his video game collection and found a game we both [...]

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bento #10: The Path to Totoro’s Forest

November 29, 2008 bento

When I made my first Totoro bento, I used bonito flakes for his gray body color, but it didn’t look quite right.　So I thought, “What food is gray?” The first food that came to my mind was konnyaku. I searched the web for “Totoro made out of konnyaku”, but to my surprise I couldn’t find anyone using konnyaku for Totoro… so of course, I had [...]

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How to make mini-totoro

November 23, 2008 characters

Now you can make your own mini-Totoro! I’m using quail eggs because they sell quail eggs at local supermarkets by where I live. They cost about the same as normal eggs, so some people might find them expensive. Quail eggs are very good for bento, and I always have them in my fridge. If you can’t find it, you can use a normal sized egg. [...]

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bento #6: Kaonashi

November 20, 2008 bento

After my sad attempt at making a Nekobus bento, I was looking for something very easy & foolproof to make. I was going through images of characters from Ghibli films, and came across the picture of a tall black figure with black eyes and mouth on a white mask called Kaonashi (“No Face” in English version) from Spirited Away. Bento# 6: Kaonashi, Kodama and Makkurokurosuke bento [...]

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bento #5: Nekobus

November 18, 2008 bento

When I was cooking croquettes before, I thought the color was perfect for Nekobus (a.k.a Catbus) from “My Neighbor Totoro.” I thought, “I’ll just shape mashed potato like Nekobus and fry it like a croquette!!” Bento #5: Nekobus (My Neighbor Totoro) Created and eaten on: 9/29/2008

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bento #4: Kick in the Head

November 18, 2008 bento

I didn’t think bento #4 could be called “kyaraben”, so I’m doing two bento today. Bento #4: Dude (Kick in the Head) Created and eaten on: 9/25/2008

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bento #2: Makkurokurosuke

November 13, 2008 bento

This is my second kyaraben. That’s right. After my failure, I didn’t give up, but decided to make something different and easier. So, I looked around the internet, and found how to make Makkurokurosuke and mini-Totoro. Bento #2: Makkurokurosuke and mini-Totoro (from My Neighbor Totoro) Created and eaten on: 9/17/2008

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