My journey into bento lunch boxes
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24 Mar 2009I had some leftover fried chicken and minced prawn on a stick of lemongrass which I had packed from a Balinese restaurant dinner. So, I heated it up and had it with rice flavoured with a dash of furikake. At a loss as to what to use the extra space for, I decided to add [...]
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20 Mar 2009I enjoyed this lunch tremendously and I hope to replicate it some day. I had fish and some fried chicken with rice topped off with a fried egg. The fish was pan fried with lychee and spring onion – absolutely delicious! The recipe for the pan fried fish with lychee and spring onion is coming [...]
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16 Mar 2009I know that the bittergourd is not everyone’s idea of a favourite vegetable but I like it! This bento was prepared in the morning with a quick sitrfry of thinly sliced bittergourd with egg and bonito flakes . I was surprised at how quick it was to prepare!
I served it on a bed of hot [...]
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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) [...]