Sunday, May 27, 2012

May Bento Challenger - BB! Admins

Bento 1: Teddies Rainbow Bread Balls. Peanut butter filled and cream cheese in the heart with jam on top. For the gaps are grapes and some chocolate rocks. - By Rozi Yunos

Bento 2: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea looking all freaked out he's about to get eaten!
Top tier: Cut strawberries, grapes, babybel cheese, strawberry jam in green bird pot, scones.
Bottom tier: Chicken pastrami lettuce mustard sandwich on white and yellow bread. Sponge Bob base and nose is milk bread, and details are cheese eyes, nori and blue edible food marker, cucumber spots, red edible food marker on pastrami for freckles, mouth is pastrami, cheese teeth and tongue using pink food marker. - By Rozi Yunos

Bento 3: My Melody. Melody is made entirely out of white bread and cranberry bread. Her head scarf is covered in dembu (dembu? denbu?) with carrot flowers. She is filled with tuna. In a garden of apple, kiwi and purple cabbage surrounded by lettuce walls.
Thank Rozi Yunos for helping me out. - By Chloe Heng

May Bento Challenger - Sabby Wabby

Bento 1: Castle sandwich with nutella filling, carrots as the door and windows, orange, bananas, corn and lettuce

Bento 2: Haunted Cemetary. A ghost sandwich with 'kaya' filling, flowers are grapes, honeydew and tomatoes, grass made of chives leaves, the land/earth/ground is chicken minced meat with chives leaves, and lots of hidden grapes underneath it :-O BOO! :-D

Bento 3: The Simpsons Family. I used sweet corn bread and beef salami for the sandwich. Added on cheese on top of the bread, egg white as the eyes, egg yolk as Lisa's necklace, tomatoes as Marge's necklace, the baby's pacifier, Lisa's pendant and Bart's shirt. I used beef salami as Homer's mouth and lips are made out of seaweed.. Carrots as the base, and a little fill-me-ups such as orange, corn, tomato flower, egg white flower and grapes. Nom.. Nom.. Nom.. :D

May Bento Challenger - Hanisah Lia PHM Salleh

Bento 1: School of Fish. My sons and my afternoon snack. Mama fish made with homemade rainbow bread, laid on a sea of organic puffs, baby fish from ready made cheese crackers, cucumber as algae and starfish.

Bento 2: Toasted Rose Bread,filled with scrambled eggs, cucumber and carrot shavings and rolled cheese&chicken toast.

Bento 3: Caterpillar in Wonderland. This caterpillar is a non-smoking caterpillar hehe. Homemade buns with cheese fillings and colourful sprinkles. Rolled chicken toast and cheese and starwberries as his resting place.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

May Bento Challenger - Siew Ping Mendes

Bento 1: feed with candy- om nom- peanut butter sandwiches base, pandan omnom, cherry tomatoes and grapes. Marshmallow 'candy'

Bento 2: love chicken-, wholemeal crackers, carrots and hummus in panda cup, orange and papaya- preschooler's school snack

Bento 3: pandan Hello Kitty sandwich with jam and cheese, underneath layer with grapes and apples (believe me), and carrot strips flowers

May Bento Challenger - Erma Hassan

Bento 1: 'A beginner' - beef burger with nori details on cheese cut outs. Cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumber, watermelon and honeydew shapes on the side. Smiley face for Mr and the others for my girls.

Bento 2: 'Asymmetric checkered board for Mr & tiaras for my princesses'. Checkered board is peanut butter and jelly sandwich topped with cheese squares and rectangles. Tiaras are nutella sandwich topped with cut up jellies as ruby and emerald. Honey stars, cornflakes and sunflower seed as gap filler. Grapes and honeydew on the side.

Bento 3: "Peek-a-boo daddy!...ZZzzZz..." Chicken pastarami and lettuce sandwich as the background/bed. Curtain/blanket is also chicken pastarami with tomato ketchup details. Cheese/nori hair and nori punch outs as eyes and mouth for the pepperoni characters. Sliced pear and apple along the side. Raisins as gap filler.

May Bento Challenger - Jessie Pang

CONGRATULATIONS! 

Winner for May Bento Challenge!

As voted by members of the Brunei Bentos! group on Facebook


Bento 1: Piano in the garden. Ham & cheese piano sandwich with cheese & nori keyboard and carrot legs. On a garden of apple flowers with cheese centres

Bento 2: "I tod I taw a puddy cat" Tweety pumpkin bread with kaya filling, apple slices & grapes. Lettuce under Tweety (who has cheese eyes, nori pupils, nori lashes and a carrot beak. Ribbon is a pick. Edible food colouring used for the blue colour of the eyes)

Bento 3: Panda Food! Strawberry jam & cream cheese panda sandwich with ham heart munching on and surrounded by 'bamboo' cucumber sticks. To make up the right bento rations i put More cucumber & the dip plus some grapes in another panda bento box

May Bento Challenger - Syazlie Ishak

Bento 1: Dating In The Garden =)
2 bunnies made from Pandesal with beef stripes fillings with Heart Shape Beef slice, flower cuts Carrots with Moon cut beef slice and Butter cakes...extra cuts of bread to fill in the Gap...

Bento 2: Happy Family : 2 pandesal with pineapple jam and blackcurrent jam respectively, heart shaped cheese and little heart shaped cherry to symbolise the Love.... Mini teddy and little miffi made from rainbow cake playing in the garden...

Bento 3: Transformer's clone ran amok in town. Pfftt...i was concentrate while doing this not until my brother came and disturb me... All the ideas just went off and so... I decided to just put everything in and submit this...
Greentea Bread with beef salami slice, Tanghoon cooked with carrots, red apples for the healthy part of the bento...and Heart shaped Rainbow cake again... I have 2 slices, one with orange blue and red..another with red yellow and purple...

May Bento Challenger - Craft Craze

Bento 1: mickey & minnie bamboo charcoal peanut butter bread, jelly flower, cheese, crispy tanghoon, egg, cherry tomato, tulip carrot, lettuce, beef sandwich toast, heart shaped apple, kiwi, cherry & blueberry :)

Bento 2: turtle in a pond - homemade tic tac toe turtle bread, lime jelly(water), pretzel(fence), lettuce,cheese, raisin for turtle's eyes, chocolate stones, tulip capsicum, fish & duck biscuits, flower butter & helwa, strawberry jam in an egg cup :)

Bento 3: happy family pocket sandwiches... wholemeal, rainbow, butter & charcoal bread with egg & tuna mayo fillings using curry puff mold, lettuce, avocado, corn, yellow cherry tomato, flower carrot, flower & heart shaped egg, strawberry, cherry, oranges & rock melon :)

May Bento Challenger - Lulu Soo Ching Lio

Bento 1: Bun with egg and potato mayo pool with cheese bear and ham bear :) , flower shape banana , grapes and ham as flower too

Bento 2: Bun dog sandwich, ham and cheese and egg inside , apple for the ear , some grapes and corn flakes for the base

Bento 3: Tuna rabbit , grapes , kiwi and sausage egg flower

Monday, May 21, 2012

May Bento Challenger - Syida Idayanie Alfaiz

Bento 1: chicken salami car sandwich with egg wheels, capsicum and carrot windows. Egg white bird, cucumber tree and carrot rabbit. Grapes and raisins. Mayonnaise in a cup.         

Bento 2: for my daughter, cashew nut butter face sandwich. With egg white birds, capsicum butterfly, carrot birds and rabbit. Cucumber trees and grapes.

Bento 3: Music to my ears. Chocolate bread with cream cheese as 'strings'.cheese star.biscuits. Beneath the 'guitar' are some pocket sandwiches with strawberry jam. Fruit platter: mango, grapes, rockmelon, apple n jambu, her favourite fruits.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

May Bento Challenge - BREAD

Happy Mother's Day!Happy Nurse's Day! Happy May Bento Challenge!

Find us on Facebook, search for Brunei Bentos! group



PLEASE ADHERE TO THE RULES.

The challenge;

* One week only - 7 days = 3 bentos.
* All photos must be up on the greoup page by Saturday 26th midnight - to give people ample time to 'like' your bentos.
* You may post photos anytime during the challenge week
* In every bento, there must be the star ingredient. This months challenge ingredient is BREAD!
* Brunei Bentos Members Only! Admins not eligible but may still join in the fun
* Post the picture of your bento include a description of what is in your bento and what you did special for the star ingredient.
* When you post the bento of your choice make sure you include ; MAY CHALLENGE - BENTO 1/2/3 (in capitals!)
* PHOTOS MUST BE POSTED ON THE BRUNEI BENTO'S WALL (no sharing from personal albums)
* The Member with the most total likes for their bento for the whole week wins! Eg ; 1+2+3 (no of likes for each bento each day) = 6 likes
* No new members will be added from now and during challenge week.
* Challenge Bento must be in a Bento Box
* Challenge Participant may FORFEIT his/her place in the challenge (for any reason at all) and must do so by inbox to Admins Chloe or Rozi.
* Challenge Participant who fail to inform of forfeit and has not fullfilled the criteria of challenge will be an automatic disqualification.


* Only Challenge photos posted during Challenge Week, non Challenge photos will be REMOVED so there will be no confusion.

The Prize ;

Skip Hop Monkey Plate and Bowl, sponsored by Yippee House

Friday, May 18, 2012

FUN FRIDAY CHALLENGE - RED

One day in between monthly challenges, a couple of bentoists in the group decided just for the fun of it to have a mini challenge, it was decided late afternoon on a Thursday and to be posted up the next morning with the theme RED. And here are the results!

Wheel Pasta in Red Pasta Sauce with mini cherry tomatoes on the side. Baby Grand is made out of Red Capcicum, with cheese and nori keyboard. Carrot legs. Smoked Salmon for the workings. held together by pasta.
As its a red challenge, My Bento's photo is taken next to my model also in red.

By Chloe Heng

She who must not be named pocket sandwich (peanut butter chocolate banana) sniffing a bed of apple, strawberries, capsicum flowers (under all that is a swiss roll and cut up apple) By Rozi Yunos
'sisterly love'- tuna mayo bread, hair from bread bun, strawberries body, cheese hands and grapes as fillers.... Replicating what i wish for my girls, to sayang each other. By Siew Ping Mendes

HK theme bento in a HK box. Watermelon balls, peeled grapes, cheese cubes, edamame on a pick, Kellogs red berries cornflakes & raisins in a cup. By Jessie Pang

Sunday, May 13, 2012

April Bento Challenger - BB! Admins

Bento 1: Strawberry panda by Chloe Heng

Bento 2: Cookie Monster by Rozi Yunos

Bento 3: Optimus Prime head by Chloe Heng

April Bento Challenger - Daisy Selalu

Bento 1: Puppy

Bento 2: Elmo!

Bento 3: Rubber ducky
Daisy Selalu is our April Bento Challenge Winner!!

Congratulations!!

April Bento Challenger - Jessie Pang

Banto 1: Tiger in the garden (one for her and one for her daughter)

Bento 2: Sleepy bear

Bento 3: Sponge Bob

April Bento Challenger - Lyla Johari

Bento 1: Two babies in the garden

Bento 2: Storm Trooper and the Death Star

Bento 3: Smurf house

April Bento Challenger - Siew Ping Mendes

Bento 1: Tarepanda 

Bento 2: Japanese girl

Bento 3: South Park
Note: Siew Ping was on holiday when she made these bento, she just can't stay away! Heheheh...