My journey into bento lunch boxes
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18 Feb 2009During the Chinese New Year, arrowroot or nga ku is in abundance. Many people slice them and deep fry them into chips. I like them stirfried with lean meat. So, when I made them for dinner one day I made sure to have some leftover to bring to work. I had stirfried arrowroot (nga ku) [...]
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16 Feb 2009I came across this promotion and I have to share.
Isetan has a promotion for Lock and Lock lunch bags (link) The bags are thermal bags to keep your food warm or cool until lunch. The set in the promotion is RM38.90 for a thermal bag with 2 slim boxes and 1 water bottle (usual price [...]
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16 Feb 2009I call this my East meets West bento lunch because the steamed herbal chicken and blanched greens is very eastern whilst the tomato based pasta shells are very western! The steamed herbal chicken was made the night before and merely heated up in the morning, and the green vegetables blanched in hot water with a [...]
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11 Feb 2009Sorry for the silence!
Here’s a simple bento lunch I packed one morning. It had shredded leftover chicken breaston a bed of letttuce leaves. The pasta was leftover tuna pasta salad which I tossed into a pan and stirfried with an egg to heat and for bulk. Cherry tomatoes and a couple of cocktail sausages completed [...]