Bento Fun #194 – Flowers Unlimited & Mid Autumn Festival
Last night I did not cook dinner as hubby wanted to bring me for beef noodles at a near by restaurant after our trip to the city to purchase moon cakes. Darrius who took almost 1.5 hours to finished his lunch earlier was still full then so he refused to eat the beef noodles.
Later in the late evening he asked for some bread with Planta so I decided to pack him a bento instead with some of his favorite items in it…
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I bought some wieners/frankfurters so decided to make those sunflowers which I have been wanting to do for a long time after seeing them in some Japanese blogs.
I use the flower cutter and cut out 4 flowers from each slice of bread (used a total of 2 slices) and stacked them up with Plata spread on every slice. Then I cut out some nectarines using the same flower cutters and used them to top the deck of flower bread. Details of eyes and mouths are cheese and nori.
As for the sunflowers, I used half of the wiener (as the petals) on each flower wrapping half a chicken cocktail which I cut the surface into small squares. Secured the wiener using a pick. There are 2 strawberries which I cut and make flowers out of them with a small dried blueberry to act as the centre. There is another slice of nectarine flower at the far end which I decorated with nori.
I would like this opportunity to share with my readers here about the up coming festival that related to eating moon cakes, the Mid Autumn Festival here in Malaysia. This is the time of the year where the Chinese will buy moon cakes to celebrate the occasion. Mid Autumn is celebrated on the 15th day of the Eight month on the Lunar Calendar which normally falls on September.
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Besides the moon cakes, another item that comes hand in hand is of course the lanterns! Normally the adults will savor the moon cakes under the full moon while the kids lit their lanterns and go around the neighborhood. It is indeed a very fun time for the kids especially during the olden days when most are staying in ‘kampung‘ or villages. However, kids these days don’t get to enjoy as much since most of them stay in the cities and are being locked up at home most of the time. They only get together with relatives on the actual night for dinner and later enjoy the sight of full moon while sipping tea and nibbling on moon cake.
At our place, most of our neighbors are adults and Darrius is pretty lonely when it comes to festival like this. We will try to bring him to community centres where they hold community functions to celebrate the festivals. We hope to bring him to some this year since he missed the one last year as I was pregger with Baby G and we were in Perth during the 2 weeks leading to Mid Autumn.
Here are some colorful sights of the beautifully made lanterns on sale…
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Hope you enjoyed the sharing of the Mid Autumn Festival! 
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My very first time hearing about planta, thanks for sharing the info
. Also thank for sharing the sun flower idea, they are pretty indeed 
You’re most welcome tatabonita!
again a nice and cute bento with just simple steps! I like these bentos.
So many beautiful lanterns! German lanters are completely different…not that colourful
I wish I can get some for my kids. But fortunately, I can buy moon cake to celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival!
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I’m glad you like it charsiubau!
The Asian stores in Germany don’t carry a varieties of lanterns??
Anyway, I hope you’ll have a wonderful Mid Autumn this year!
very good bento, indeed
the facial expressions are cute
i love mooncake too although in here the lantern is not a hot item during this season…
Thanks Yenny!
Normally in Malaysia, moon cakes and lanterns comes hand in hand.
Kids don’t normally eat moon cakes so they play lanterns instead! hehehe
yea.. Mid autumn festival is arriving.. I am going to bring my boy to choose his favourite latern so he can play with his cousins during the festival.
I love playing laterns when i was a kid too.. lighting up the latern with candles in the night was so pretty..
Yeap… gotta let the kids enjoy the lanterns since it is school holidays now!
lovely flowers. I like the nectarines face idea. I like to eat nectarines, but not my son. We love to play lanterns and candle during Mooncake festival season.
Wishing you & family happy holiday & Happy Mooncake Festival.
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Thanks Emily!
Hope you’ll have a enjoyable holiday and a lovely Mid Autumn festival too!
Very cute flower bento!
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Thanks for the lovely comment Susan!
Nice flowers. Do you just cut slits on the wieners, or is there a special technique? And do you steam/boil the wiener before or after cutting them? I always find that the patterns (using a sausage cutter) doesn’t turn out nice if I cut the wieners after cooking them.
Thanks AMD!
I slit the wieners before I boil them and I gave up using the cutter!
They never once came out nice even I have seen the video on how
to do them and they take too much time to make too.
hi angeleyes! for a moment i thot the flowers r coloured rice. looks so pretty. hmm i actually sent u an email sometime ago asking u how to add colour to rice. dunno whether u received that email. anyway do u use natural colouring fm foods or artificial colouring. can teach me the process?
Thanks Venessa!
You can color your rice using food coloring after you have cooked them or
you can add them to the water in the rice cooker when you cook your rice.
I think I replied your question before but not sure if you red it.
Sometimes I will use natural coloring if I have the right ingredients on hand .