#31 ~ Rice with Meatball Sauce and Patties

Left-over sauce place on top of rice, beef patties, some slices of cucumber, and tomatoes. Another delicious Bento for today!

#30 ~ Rice Roll in Nori and Fish Cake

Another sushi roll for my Bento #30! This time it's salmon as filling, fish cake with filling too, boiled egg in tea, mixed salad, apple, and honey dew for dessert.

#29 ~ Rice, Egg, and Porkchop

Another Bento for Two made of fresh cooked rice with smiley nori and sprinkled with sesame seedm bite size porkchop, scrambled egg, slice of tomato and cucumber. Enjoy!

Food Trip Friday

#26 ~ Mix Seafood Sushi Roll

I still had this Bento when I was in Taipei! I have here mix of maki ~ I couldn't stop eating, quail eggs, okra, and mix fruits.

WFT: Chicken BBQ in Disposable Lunch Box

Craving for this Chicken Bento in Taipei...

#23 ~ Baked Beef Bulgogi

I had this Bento when I'm still in Taipei and now I'm craving for it eventhough the beef bulgogi is available in S and R here in Manila. I prepared beef bulgogi bought in Costo, some cherry tomatoes, and chopped cabbage with corn and carrots, plus tahini (sesame paste) for the dressing.

#22 ~ Baked Penne with Spinach

Baked Penne with Spinach this time with Whole Wheat Mini Bread with cheese and Choco-Chip Walnut Bar for lunch today. For fresh vegetables, I had baby corn and romaine lettuce with Tahini Sauce, and grapes for my fruit.

#21 ~ Seafood Chow Mian (Fried Noodles)

First time to use my new metal lunch box and today I'm serving Seafood Chow Mian (or simply called Seafood Fried Noodles). For the dessert I have mixed fruit ~ orange, apple, and honey dew (melon).

#20 ~ Beef Rice Burger

Another rice meal for today, it's a burger made of rice! I had difficulty making this kind, but it's worth the effort. I'll be perfect next time! Aside from beef burger, I also had tofu egg, sauteed green beans, fish cake, cucumber, pineapple, and honey dew for desserts.

#19 ~ Refreshing Sesame Cold Noodles

Nothing to beat the heat except for light and cool meal as Sesame Cold Noodles! No need to spend a long time in the kitchen and fussing with all the heat. Just boiled any noodles you like, let it cool and add sesame paste, chopped one cucumber. Toss and voila, a meal for the day is made :)

#18 ~ Shrimp and Scallop Pasta Salad

Summer is officially here! After the Dragon Boat Festival yesterday, after eating those heavy sticky rice, it's time to lighten up my meal a bit. I have here left-over penne from my previous Baked Penne with Spinach, few shrimps and scallops and mix them with romaine lettuce. Additional beef wrapped in tortilla, plus refreshing watermelon for dessert.

#17 ~ Mixed Grain Rice, Hot Dog, and Tofu

Boat and rice dumplings are always associated with Dragon Boat Festival. If you guys are interested to know one of the story behind this festival, just click my previous post Weekend Food Tour: Dragon Boat Festival  from last year. My meal for today is not glutinous rice, it's a mixed-grained rice that can be bought in supermarket. I added fish flakes and sesame inside, sort of rice dumplings. To eat the mixed grain rice, I prepared hot dog,  fried egg tofu, fruits and vegetables.

#16 ~ Fried Chicken and Sauteed Vegetables

I just can't resist, my second time to post Fried Chicken! This time, with Sauteed Vegetables in olive oil. After sauteing, I separated the vegetables by color for a nice presentation. I also have  Coconut Balls for dessert.

#15 ~ Mashed Potato and Beef Teriyaki

I ate dinner meal for breakfast! Last night, I was so excited to see the potato in heart shape and I decided to bake it at once and made it into mashed potato. While the potato is baking, I also made beef teriyaki. This morning  I heated everything back to the oven and voila! I had a good breakfast. I'm not even hungry until 2pm.

#14 ~ Honey Chicken and Beef Wrapped

I didn't realized making bento is addicted and here I am just moved to a new home. Why Boxed Meal? As I've mentioned in my first bento, 便當 Bian Dang (Piandang) is very famous here in Taiwan. Taiwanese adapted it from Japanese (Japanese invaded Taiwan for more than 50 years). Literally, Bian Dang means A Lunch in a Box. For me, I would just like to emphasized that Boxed Lunch could be eaten any time of the day that's why I end up naming this page Boxed Meal.

#12 ~ Tuna Sandwich and Blanched Vegetables

Bento #12 ~ Tuna Sandwich and Blanched Veges

I baked the whole wheat bread creating into fun shaped like flowers, hearts, and even bears. I used tuna in water fresh from the can, I seldom eat canned food and if ever I have to add lots of vegetables to the meal. In here I used steamed okra wrapped in fish cake and baby corn as side dish. I also have mixed salad and seedless grapes for dessert.

#11 ~ Rice in Nori, Steamed Shrimp and Vegetables

Bento #11 ~ Purple Rice in Nori, Steamed Shrimp and Vegetables

What can I say, I love shrimp! But I cannot eat a lot, I have occasional allergy with it. Anyways, I can't believe this is the 11th Bento I made. I'm enjoying creating and snapping (cooking and capturing) a lot, sometimes when I look around my mind is working with what to prepare next...Although my Obentos are made just for me and I haven't tried making for kids with all those characters, maybe soon...

#10 ~ Bite Size Pizza for Lunch



Bento #10 ~ Mini Bite Pizza for Lunch



Mini pizza from left-over pizza sauce I made and the Fresh Milk Bread from yesterday's post, and fresh fruits and raw vegetables, a meal is created for the day.

#09 ~ Purple Rice and Shrimp

Bento #09 ~ Purple Rice and Shrimp

Another  healthy complete meal, but the difference now is I used purple rice (I really don't know how to call this, maybe wild rice?). I have here rice, top with egg, shrimp, tofu, cabbage, peas, and cherry tomatoes.

#08 ~ Peppered Beef Cold Noodles



Bento #08 ~ Peppered Beef Cold Noodles

It's peppered beef spinach cold noodles. I read so much about cold noodles and pasta salad since I would like to know the difference between noodles and pasta. Actually, I think there's not much difference. Mostly in Asia, we're just used to call noodles and in Western it simply pasta. Anyways, as usual  this is an easy way to prepare ahead of time, maybe at night and just place it in the chiller, the following day it's ready to eat.