Bento Fun #88 – *honk* *honk*
I was rummaging through my ‘bento treasure box’ to see what are the gadgets that I have bought but never used since I opened them after they arrived in my mailbox. It was a good exercise I must say coz I found so many unused gadgets! The amount I have spent so far can buy half of that Kitchen Aid which I have been drooling for so long! 
At the bottom of the box I discovered these babies (transportation rice molds) which I have opened and wrapped with another plastic waiting to see the light of day! Actually the shape of these vehicles are quite difficult to tell so I was lucky I kept the cardboard which came together with the molds.
Since Darrius is very into cars, planes and boats, I thought I’ll just made some rice balls with them. I did not have Calrose Rice at home so I used our normal Thai Rice and added a little extra water thinking it will be stickier. As you can see, they are not as sticky as has hope they will be. Nonetheless, the rice balls still turned out better than I have expected them to be.
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In this bento, there are 2 car shaped rice balls/onigiri (details are made of carrot and nori) with some stir-fried mixed vegetables of cabbage, carrot and sweet peas with chicken strips. I added a pan-fried soy sauce chicken wing (I added a little oyster sauce when I marinate to get a better fagrance) and a strawberry to complete the box.
I have wanted to make a traffic light to be included but the weather was so hot that I was already drenched in sweat by the time I’m sone with cooking and decorating the bento. Darrius adores traffic lights so I hope I can do one real soon to make him happy!
Till then, hope you have a great weekend and happy bento-ing! 
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True true true, we really need to look at the tools once a while to dig out those unused ones.
I like the cars.
Wow, haha, time to dig out the treasures… sometimes I do forget too what I already have.
peep peep right back at u! nice box today, love it.
shoppingmum,
yalor… in fact I still have many gadgets still sitting inside the box unused.
SIG,
my problem is, I mixed some of them with my cupcake making gadgets too! So, I have like a bit here and there!
javapot,
Thanks!
Hi Angelyes, I saw your link on shoppingmum’s blog. I did not receive your entry for the bento contest can you resend it to me? Thanks!
I tried doing onigiri once, and I used normal rice too. It still worked, though not as sticky as Japanese rice.
Susan,
Got your email earlier…
amomsdiary,
Yeah… and they dries off pretty fast! Either I have to make my rice stickier by adding more water or use Calrose Rice.
geee…..yr cars so nice compared to mine …. **envy** but i was lazy, what to do?? what a complete meal….thumbs up!!
same here, by the time I am done cooking them chicken (soy braised lar, roast lar, teriyaki lar) for ashley’s school meals, the bento normally end up speed bento cos too tired to decorate,haha! At least yours is decorated. *grin*
jacss,
Thanks for the compliment! Well, I love your trains!
Christene,
Then I’ll get nag for being so disorganized… 
If I want to do bento, I’ll have to cook earlier than normal so I can have the time or else when Ah Beng is back the dining table is like kena struck by tornado liddat… so messy!