Bento Fun #90 – A Fishy Tale
Wow! I am just 10 posts away from my #100th bento post! This obsession of mine has been growing steadily as I need to divide my time with my cupcake shoppe. It is always so fun to be in the creative circle cause there will always be something new and exciting coming. Must start thinking of an ultimate bento to commemorate my #100th post. 
Another thing I was happy about was, I finally found the Sakura Denbu in one of the shop near Gurney Plaza. I always thought this shop was selling baking supplies but never thought of popping by as I dare not go there by myself since it required parallel parking (yeah, I’m such a lousy driver). Therefore, after reading about it from one of the blogging friend, I decided to bug my Ah Beng to pop by the shop last Friday. Boy, am I glad! 
So, with the new ingredient, I made these cuties…
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The rice for the fish onigiri was mixed with Sakura Denbu. I used the egg fish mold to form the fish as I find the shape is much nicer than the other fish mold I have. I just need to press the rice on both side and use a cling wrap to separate the centre before I close it to tighten the rice inside the mold.
The green line on the fish is cut out from green lunch sheet. The fish scales are corn seeds which I used some mayonnaise to stick them together. Ok, this is no easy job as I need to actually sliced each corn seed into half so they are flat! Details of the eyes are made of cheese and nori.
I added a chicken drumlet to go with the onigiri. There are some apple slices, blanched broccoli and half a cherry tomato.
Since this is an impromptu bento I made, I did not get any Calrose Rice. The rice dries so fast (hot weather so fan was switched on full blast) and it is not easy to stick all the items on. So, this is a lesson learned. Next time, to do fancy onigiri I must use Calrose Rice! 
Another note: I should have wrapped the side of the onigiri with nori to hold the rice together. Can you see the rice started to ‘peel off’ ?
It was not easy to place the onigiri into the bento box too. What a challenge it was! The corn seeds kept falling off! Next time I’ll do a flat lying one instead… less stress that way! 
I got the idea of doing the fish from one of the bento books but I can’t remember which one coz I can’t find it inside those I have.
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wow. just love this fishy bento and can only imagine the effort u put in placing each scale…but really nice leh.
hehe…can’t wait for your ‘ultimate’ bento.
Keep it up!!
what??…u have to slice those little corn into half….**faint**…i would have given up
thou it looked nice, reading the steps to fix it, i would run away from such challenge …. **LOL**
Very nice!! But I don’t think I have the ’sam gei’ to fix them…haha.
javapot,
Yu have any suggestions to share?
jacss,
Sometimes must try those out of the world kinda of challenge a bit if not all the investment in those books for nothing… hehehe
mommykhong,
You know I like to play for fun when I have the time… if I am like you with 2 kids and another one on the way I’ll probably lie on the sofa the whole day!
You’re making fabulous bentos !! Your son is very lucky !
Thanks Diana!
hey is that sakura denbu that pink coloured eggs so minuscale one? i’ve seen it sold in the sushi counter in Giant IMM. but not sure what it does or how to use it.
me too, always no clue where I got the idea from, esp when I want to link back to the Jap blog.
Love the fishes and its scales *grin* . Sorry yea, havent blog hop lately. lots of datelines coming up again. and no time to blog again. sigh..I WANT TO BE A STAY AT HOME MOM . Haha !!
wow, so fast already, my bento post is so slow behind
Wah, so many nice bento here!!!! Now i got another “bento blog” to read already.
Constance,
Well, we learn new things everyday when we cook din we? 
Yeap! I thought it was mini flowers at first too! Until I read the ingredients then I found it it is made of fish!
christene,
Oh yeah! I know how often I go read books in the shops but too stingy to get more… so just steal the ideas if there is one or two nice ones.
lovelymummy,
Don’t have to rush. Just take your time then nice bento ideas will flow…
Annie,
Welcome! I thought you knew of this blog of mine….
lovely lovely!!! you are so creative
Hey Barb!
Thanks for popping by….
Haiyo!!! Really salute you la. What’s Sakura Denbu btw? Is it some form of colouring?
a moms diary,
Sis you get my mail? You can try getting the Sakura denbu in Jusco or any Japanese stores.
Wow!! I love this cute fish! 1 day I must make this cos my son loves corn! Hopefully with this, he will eat the rice or maybe sandwich that I use to cut the fish out!
Saw in the post b4 this, ur son is so guai..only need to tell him to eat the yolk and he obliges! Mine wont even try no matter wat I say and will even turn the plate up!
Headache most times!
Hi Tona-mama,
Thanks for popping by.
Yeah, corn is good for kids especially their bowel movement!
One thing about my boy is, he wants to be ‘clever boy’ so anything that has to do with being clever he will do it! LOL
haha! So clever boy!