Stitch Bento

Stitch bento

Since hubby was so good to drive me all the way to Ipoh’s 100 Yen shop last Sunday, I knew I should put some effort in making him his favourite cartoon character – Stitch! I made a doggie bento for him last month using the Stitch rice mould. The reason I didn’t want to make Stitch onigiri is because I’m lazy to cut the details on the Stitch’s face. So I used the Stitch rice mould to make doggie onigiri He was the one who asked me to buy the Stitch rice mould but I didn’t want to because I knew that I won’t make Stitch onigiri, but he put the Stitch rice mould into the shopping basket straight away. Who knows, I’ve finally made him some Stitch onigiri.

I made the onigiri with food colouring that I bought in Ipoh’s 100 Yen shop. Cut the face details with nori and chicken ham. Used some cooked rice to make the eye balls and teeth After adding the teeth, I felt the Stitch looks ugly so I didn’t add teeth on others. However, hubby said he likes the one with teeth the most and he said it looks cute. Cute? Haha! Look fierce, I think.

For veggies, he gets stir fried kai lan with carrots and dried sole.

He also gets a salty chicken drumsticks (bought in Ipoh), some cucumber sticks, tomato slice, steamed green beans and pan fried tofus.

I’m sure that he enjoyed his lunch this afternoon because I gave him a drumstick today, and he loved the veggies with dried fish so much plus he told me he kept thinking about the Stitch in the bento before he even had his lunch.

Food colouring

This is the food colouring that I bought in Ipoh’s 100 Yen shop. I’m not so sure how to use it so I just bought a packet. After trying it out, I regret I didn’t buy more

There’re five colours in it and I used the purple colour for the Stitch bento since there’s no blue colour in it.

Looking at the instructions behind the packaging, I could roughly guess how to use it but not very sure. I know the chinese words, and one japanese phrase on it. Haha! That’s ‘gohan’ which means ‘rice’. So, I think it’s saying mix approximately 100g of warm rice with a packet of the colouring in a bowl until the rice are nicely coloured. Hehe.

I didn’t mix 100g of rice with the colouring but just some warm rice with some colouring and adding the colouring little by little to get the desired colour. I think these colourings are quite safe to use as they’re natural colourings made from veggies, but I just guess with the chinese words and limited japanese words that I know.

My half-done Stitch onigiri

The food colouring tastes salty. So I used white rice at the bottom of the onigiri so that the onigiri aren’t too salty. When hubby saw these coloured rice, he told me: “Since you have yellow colouring too, you can make me Pikachu you know? I also like Pikachu!” I slowly get to know what cartoon characters he used to like when he’s small as I go through my bento making journey.

After I was done with moulding the Stitch onigiris, I had some tough time cutting the face details, the eyes and noses. The ears were easy because I cut them with the Stitch rice mould and used scissors to cut them into Stitch’s ear shapes (the ham at the right).

Fruit bento

I make him a fruit bento for afternoon tea again. There’re kiwi slices, watermelon cut into ball shapes and some grapes. The fruit bento looks more interesting with the cute picks – giraffes and koala. Looks like he’ll be eating his fruit bento in a zoo. Haha.

This is the leftover watermelon after I scooped out some ‘watermelon balls’

Big kid helping to clear the leftovers

Here I proudly present to you the fruit bento that my big kid prepared for me. Full of ‘loves’ too after I made him those lovely midnight bento & lovely breakfast bento