Bento #1: Little Chick Bento

Maureen
Maureen
February 09, 2012
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My love for food continue to grow everyday. First, it was the opening of this blog. Then, I picked up food photography. Next, I went to learn Food Clay Art. Then, I had food styling classes. And now, I am obsessed with Bento making.
It started last year when I knew many blogger friends who made bento. I was so intrigued by the bento designs and I wanted to give it a try. But I held back. Because I don’t cook often and I don’t have the crafts.
But this year, my work has close relationship with bento making and since fate brought “us” together again, I asked myself, why not I give it a try? Within the last 2 days, I bought bento crafts online, bought bento books and dropped by Daiso to buy more. I started making bento!
And I am addicted to it.
This is my FIRST bento. I didn’t create the design myself unfortunately. I adapted this bento design from Kawaii Bento by Rachel Hei. The steps are very simple for beginners, but I still have to do some brainstorming. I have to make sure that I have the ingredients and the crafts to do it. When I first decided to do my first bento, I didn’t fix on the design yet. I went Cold Storage to buy vegetables, carrots, red and orange pepper, nori and cucumber. Then I went home to read on the bento books which I bought for reference.
I initially wanted to try rice mould, but realized I forgot to buy short grain rice. So I had to source for a bento design where rice is not the priority. Hence, I picked this! I had leftover rice so I cooked garlic fried rice and boiled an egg. Everything can be done within 15mins. I am so happy! I like it so much that I can’t bear to eat it. The garlic fried rice was very delicious! Good job, Maureen! 🙂

How to make the chick?

If you want to learn to make the chick, here are some steps for you. It is very simple! All you need to have is a hard boiled egg, nori (seaweed), stencils and tweezer!

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1. Cook an egg, remove shell. Use a V shape knife to cut gently around egg white. Be careful not to cut into the yolk itself.

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2. Lift the egg white slowly. The egg yolk will be used as the head of the chick.

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3. Use a stencil to cut out the chick’s expression using nori (seaweed).

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4. Stick the expression onto chick’s face and put on the hat pick.
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Inside the box:
Garlic fried rice, lettuce leaf, hard boiled egg, nori (seaweed), blanched carrots and cauliflower.
Do you like my first bento?