This is the ‘ME’ Bento

I guess most of you should have known that Javapot’s little ‘WHO R U?’ Bento challenge is closing soon. Well, I was very busy the whole of last week with cupcake orders everyday so I did not have any chance to think of what to do so I waited till this week but who knows I discovered something that changed my life completely…

Since the discovery I have been eating out as I want to bring Darrius out to have fun (since he was stuck at home most of the time and for time to come). This means I don’t have the leisure afternoon to do bento. Normally we will have a quick dinner and Darrius will often asked me to feed him too. I guess he knows that he will have to be independent very soon… so he has been a little cry baby lately and wants my attention all the time.

Well, initially I thought I’ll give the contest a miss (as I felt a little nauseated this morning) but since Javapot has been so supportive, I’ll just want to support her initiative… after all the prizes she offered are really attractive wor! However, I doubt mine will stand a chance! So it is for sportmanship… (Java, don’t knock my head ok?? )

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I have been craving for either Asam Laksa or fried rice in particular for the last 2 weeks. Since I can’t put Asam Laksa in my bento so I thought I’ll have fried rice instead. This time I managed to make anchovies fried rice. The ingredients were a little different as I wanted to clear some of the vege in my fridge.

This bento describe me in a way… as you can see those ‘cupcakes’ I’m holding! Yeah, I’m the ‘Cupcake Mama’ here! I’d wanted to get some quail eggs and dye them with colors but was too lazy to walk in the hot sun to the wet market so this novel idea of using strawberries. The cupcake cases were made of tofu pouch or ‘inari’… I hope I got that right.

For ‘ME’ the face was made with local fish cake. You can see the grayish color… looked ghastly hor? I can’t find komaboko and I do not want to use cheese as I don’t fancy cheese and with my condition now the more I dare not take cheese cause I do not want to kick start my morning sickness so soon! The collar and earrings were all made of carrot. The blouse and apron are made of lunch sheets. Hair was nori with artificial crab meat for headband and the bow at the apron.

I had pan-fried oyster sauce chicken wings (the middle section is my favorite part) and some broccoli and yellow cherry tomatoes. All the cooking and decorating took me almost 2 hours!

That’s all for ‘ME Bento’. I hope all of you had fun doing your ‘ME Bento’ too!

Till then, happy bento-ing folks! And TGIF too!