Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Penguins Bento and Bento Making featured in ZaoBao(联合早报)

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Recently my boy was fascinated with "The Penguins of Madagascar" showing on #kto(here) every Monday - Thursday at 6.30pm. He loves those 4 crazy Penguins known as Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private who rule the roost at their Central Park Zoo home with thier all-new adventures together with King Julian. And with his favorite show he has always wanted to make a Penguin Bento.

So finally last Sunday, I managed to come up with this Penguins Bento which is similar to his favourite Madagascar Penguins using Charcoal Bread(read more HERE) bought from "Lavender Bakery" at City Square Mall, Johor. He was so excited when we cut out the penguins shape from the charcoal bread using the cutter and assemble it featured with cheese and carrot. I am sure no matter who you gave this Penguins Bento to the receiver will definitely be thrilled.

This photo shows the tools and steps on how to assemble this cute Penguins Bento.

Ingredients:
1 Slice of Bamboo Charcoal Bread
1 Slice of Sandwich Cheese
2 Thin Slices of Carrot
1/4 Portion of Sweet Corn
Fresh Fruits of your Choice
Some Prawn Crackers
Nori sheet
1 Toothpick

Method:-
1. Blanched Sweetcorn in boiling water for about 2 - 3 minutes, removed and add in the carrot. Cook for 30 seconds, remove and set aside.

2. Using a Penguin shape food cutter to cut out two penguins from the bamboo charcoal bread.

3. Next with the same cutter cut out another two penguins from the cheese and using toothpick and drinking straw to cut out the stomach, mouth and eyes of the penguins.

4. Place the cut out cheese features on the prepared bread (give it a gentle press to stick the cheese on the bread), before securing the legs(you can use a flower shape cutter to cut out semi-circle from the carrot) of the penguins using carrot and thin spaghetti strips.

5. Lastly, assemble the sweetcorn, fruits, crackers and penguins bread into the bento box and serve.



FEATURED in 21.06.2011
ZaoBao(联合早报), Family Page


Here is a screen shot of our bento making featured in today's ZaoBao(联合早报), Family Page which might be an encouraging article for working parents to create a bonding time with kids by making bento as a food art and educational theme for them.

Although bento making in Singapore is not as popular as in Japan and Taiwan but there are still a lot of bento makers and bento item collectors in Asian countries. And my bento journey starts with a group of bento friends whom always inspired me with their creative ideas where you might be interested to take a look and read-up their fabulous bento from their blogs shown below:-

1. Mothering Corner @ http://motheringcorner.com/

2. Bentolicious @ http://www.mybentolicious.com/

3. Susan Yuan @ http://susanyuen.blogspot.com/

4. Hippomum @ http://www.wretch.cc/blog/hippomum/11108126

5. Tona Mummy @ http://ourfirstbabykimiboy.blogspot.com/


11 comments:

  1. 恩轩至佳21/6/11 10:48 pm

    Thanks for sharing! This is creative and nice!
    Voted for you today, you deserved it!

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  2. Thanks for the kind comment and vote :)

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  3. holy cow, these are darling!  i love the dark charcoal bread too, it looks amazing!

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  4. Parsley Sage23/6/11 8:47 am

    I love that show!  It's so funny :)  Your boy has fantastic taste!  Super cute bento

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  5. You are really good with making bento!  Your son must be so happy!!!!  He's so cute - the way he behaves (only from pic) remind me of my own son.  LOL.  I will not be able to eat bento if it's this cute!

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  6. Congrats on the feature Ellena! You and Rae look lovely in the photo ;)

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  7. Congrats! Boy, you're so creative ... i would love carrying such an adorable bento set to school everyday! :)

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  8. Sawasdee ka!
    I com to visit you blog naka. ^-^

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  9. Shen @ Justonecookbook.com4/7/11 3:03 pm

    Congratulations on being featured in the newspaper!  The bento looks amazing and the best reward is the happy look on your son's face :) 

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  10. The penguins looks cute .  You are very creative.

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