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Bento Factory - 29/9

2009-09-28T17:47:35Z

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29/9 Menu

Carb Basket: Japonica Rice
Meat Basket: Honey Mustard Baked Chicken Thigh
Vege Basket: Butter Steamed Vegetables, Cucumber Sticks, Gooseberries, Blueberries and Honeydew Pudding.

Either the fastest bento I've ever made or the slowest, since I couldn't bake my chicken till 11pm when mom was done with the oven.

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Bento Factory 4

2009-09-24T14:16:25Z

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25/9 Menu for Dad and Me

Carb Basket: Salah Soba with Soba Sauce and Pork Cubes
Vege Basket: Herb Butter Salad with ♥ egg and cherry tomato, Sake Stir Fry Mixed Veg
Meat Basket: Gambit Chicken (Hot and Cajun)

Finally got dad a proper bento box. Although, I hate his box. It is small and I have no room to add more veges without skimping on the meats or carbs.

As it turns out, my Salah Soba is well named, according to Brightside. Not only have I used the soba sauce wrongly, because it's supposed to be diluted, I thought it was a sauce one poured over the noodles rather than a dipping sauce. I ended up with ultra-salah soba - wrong noodles, wrong spices, wrong way of using sauce. I'm quite proud of it ^_^

And because my family helped take care of my dog yesterday, I made them all dinner - Salah Sayur Soba.

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Bento Factory 3

2009-09-23T15:58:45Z

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24/9 Menu

Carb Basket: Sushi and baked sweet potato
Meat Basket: Pouch Salmon
Vege Basket: China Nectarine and Grapes, Pomegranate Salad with Japanese Cucumber and Honey Cherry Tomatoes.

NEW BENTO BOX!!! KYUUUTE @____@

Staying over at Elle's house today, so we both made the meats together. Hope it turned out nice :/ Might be a bit bland because I... forgot to season it <_<; Mm. Yes.

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Bento Factory 2

2009-09-23T00:54:33Z

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23/9 Menu (Me and dad got the same stuff today)

Carb Basket: Spicy Yakisoba with fish dumplings
Meat Basket: Pouch-baked Bell Pepper Pork, Chive Dumpling
Vege Basket: Steamed shanghai greens with carrots and a baby corn, cherry tomato, grapes and pudding.

However, Dad left home his box of goodies thinking it was another meal. Which goes to show the man needs a proper bento box with a BAG so his meals are more or less idiot-proof. I wonder how I'll get to cooking when I'll be out late. Prepped alot of the in ingredients. Also owe Brightside a Salmon Pouch which I hope will be okay since she likes her food very delicately seasoned while I have a tongue that tastes food sledgehammer.

I need to find a better location to take photos than on my kitchen counter -.-

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Bento Factory

2009-09-21T14:06:23Z

Bentos!

Making food for parents too, since I know dad's a skinflint who will skip lunch, and mom is a workaholic who eats silly unhealthy sandwiches with no veg in them. I ate so much over the weekend with my trip Raya Visiting with Brightside, and then a big meal at lunch today. My god, must gym tomorrow.

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21/9 Menu
Box 1: Japonica Rice and Siew Mai
Box 2: Baby Corn, Spinach Tamago, Cherry Tomato, Strawberry Pudding and Grapes
Box 3: Yakitori, Blanched Eggs and Stir Fry Bean Sprouts.

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The Bento Update

2009-09-16T15:07:26Z

So three days have passed and I have been faithfully making myself Bentos. It's a week and I realize that as my cooking time reduces, alot of time is spent making the food look pretty. I guess that is the price I pay for having a very utilitarian approach to cuisine: i.e. it'll look the same on the way out anyway, so why bother with pretty?

Here's a Bento update for the last three days including menus:

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15/9 Menu

Box 1: Fried Chilli Corned Beef
Box 2: Steamed Siew Mai, Japanese Rice with Nori
Box 3: Eggs and Ham with Baco Bits, Stir Fry Vegetables

Rating: 4.5/5 - I <3 Fried Chilli Corned Beef!! Egg was bleh and my burps smelled of bacon bits all day :/

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16/9 Menu

Box 1: Siew Mai and Gyoza, Japonica Rice
Box 2: Yakiniku Beef, Mushrooms and Onions on a lettuce bed
Box 3: Steamed Butter Vegetables seperated by lettuce, hard boiled egg, cherry tomato, champagne grapes and a cup pudding.

Rating: 4/5 - nice mix but a bit heavy with the beef. Damn Gyoza edge got hard again -.-

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17/9 Menu

Box 1: Fish dumplings, Vegetable Fish Rolls, Chive Gyoza, Heart Eggs
Box 2: Steamed Vegetables, Champagne Grapes, Honeydew Pudding with Nata de Coco
Box 3: Yakisoba with Bean Sprouts, Beef and Chikuwa

Rating: 4.5/5 YAKISOBA RULES, although I know it was a carb overload :/ The vegetable fish rolls were a bit too 'fishy' for me so I won't be having those again <_< Otherwise, was awesome.

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Japanophile Episode 2 - Bento!

2009-09-14T02:31:24Z

Yes, I'm wondering if my diet is the one that is making me fat. Hm... perhaps it must be. Because for some reason whenever I eat, my tummy gets bigger so... MAYBE IT IS THE FOOD @_@

Therefore, I came to the conclusion that I really am not having a healthy diet. Therefore, I'm going to endeavour to begin a bento box program which will hopefully last more than 3 days. So I made sure I got 2 parts complete protein (stir-fry chicken and egg), 1 part vegetables (probably 1.5 because I'm not a fan of cherry tomatoes :/), 1 part carb and 1 part yummeh (today being dumplings).

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Yeah, those seperators... one was Brightside's but it ended up in my bag so... now they are mine and I owe her a dollar >_<; On the other hand, smelling the food makes me hungry... so hungry... I think I need a light breakfast, like a sandwich or something.

Edit: Mummy Brightside said I didn't have enough veg, so I added more.

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Japonophile

2009-08-14T15:52:11Z

Japonophilia strikes again - this time in the form of Natsu Matsuri. Dressing for it has become my per project of the month. Hence, I have rented a yukata. I realize that I lack two belts, but what the hell. Normal belts with suffice. Putting it on was the work of a moment, considering how short I am and how long the thing is. The folds were like... wah o.0

On the other hand, this is the one ethnic costume where I find that having no waist line is a boon; though perhaps this wasn't made for people with junk in the trunk because the obi keeps folding up. In dedication to she who introduced me to this madness, I give you my yuka-pics.

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Don't bother opening this pic to full resolution, camera decided that I was beneath clarity. Behold waistlessness, for once, actually helping me.

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Her my variation of the Bunko bow which I call the Nubko (if you get this joke, you increase your Nerd stats by +2). Doesn't look like it but my hips are actually forward because the obi bends when I stand straight. Obis were not designed for women with junk in the trunk.

All in all, this is fun, though keeping the folds here and there takes a bit of getting used to. I hope... with all this... that we are able to get tickets to the festival and actually wear these things.

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Master Chief Strikes Again!

2009-07-16T14:16:07Z

Arby says: *sighs* he won the genetic lottery lah
Lawl says: i know damn him
Lawl says: i wanna win the genetic lottery
Arby says: next life
Lawl says: i am so frigging fat sobsob crying face!
Arby says: shut up and arr
Lawl says: sympathyless!
Arby says: *points to nick*
Chief - only under durress. says: <_<;
Arby says: lolololol
btw, is that mispelling of duress intentional? because it is apt.
Chief - only under durress. says: no u
Arby says: *nods* point taken it's still funny

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You must love him SOOO much.

2009-07-12T15:35:53Z

My boyfriends eruptive puss back!! The most disgusting spot squeeze you have ever seen!!!!

Not MY bf's obviously but this entire video is examplary of what human reactions are to cysts, pimples and everything bodily-squirty in between.

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