Bento#150: Little Penguins Bento
My kids love penguins, and so am I. 
The only penguins I’ve seen, which are not in captivity are those little penguins in Philip Island, Australia. I would certainly love to bring my kids there one day, as all the penguins they have seen are from zoos or aquariums.
Since I have some quail eggs left in the fridge, I decided to fix some penguin onigiri, by wrapping the quail eggs with red hom mali rice. Actually, we hardly eat only white rice at home, and I normally mix the white rice with red rice. I’m not a big fan of white rice since I was young, but due to my mom’s influence, we used to have red rice at home. Red rice can be rather hard to be chewed for my kids, so I mix both rice by 1:1 ratio.
Here’s their dinner, actually…
There are 2 quail egg onigiris, a fried buffalo wing, and some stir-fried spinach. I added some mixed veggie to fill the gaps. Since I wanted to heat up the bentos, fruits are not suitable as part of their meal.
Here’s the shoe puncher I used today, besides the smiley Carl’s puncher which is not shown here.
And here are the bentos after decoration.
I added some corns as penguin’s nose and feet. Just use thin spaghetti straps to secure the corns onto the onigiri.
I added some carrots in their bentos too.
Just in case you are wondering, the rice balls are manually formed with cling wrappers. I found that the rice is more compact this way, and the surface is smoother too.
BTW, I’m not sure if the picks can be steamed up, so I prefer to remove them while heating up the bentos. Then, I will put them back in again when the bentos are served. As for the silicon cups, I’ve read that it can withstand high temperature, but not for toaster oven. That’s why I just leave them in the bentos while heating up the meal in the rice cooker.
Correct me if I’m wrong ya?
i love penguins! and this is the best penguin bento that i have ever seen! you’re so creative lahh
very very cute penguins
Oh my.. those are quail eggs? But it seems big leh… seems like i hav being fool by those size of the bento box.. no wonder u told me it’s very small only hahaha… Amy.. *sluate* guess only u can thInk of wrapping the egg with the rice.. it’s simply and yet so cute…. thanks you for sharing all these tips with us..
Winnie and Misha’s mum, thanks.
Ellena, ya loh, these stainless steel bentos are really small, but fit my kids appetite liao. They don’t eat much rice, like the mother. LOL!
Great penguins…so cute!
wow, you are so creativity!it’s really cute!
aiyor…..cutenya!!! i can imagine d smiles on the kids’ face….
i also read that the silicon cup has no problem in oven, microwave oven & steamer but NOT toaster over…..strange but dun know why?? so guess steaming in rice cooker is no problem since it’s stainless steel, i have these boxes too!!
Very cute penguins, love them!
wow, u never cease to inject new ideas into the bentos.
AH!! I love the penguins!! So cute!!
Hi,
Ive discovered about bento through reading your blog.
Otherwise I would have not known of such a thing.
I love all your creative ideas, I think its the best Ive seen so far!
Recently, i bought the bento cutters, Im kind of stuck on how to get ideas…
what to do, and stuff.
How you do it?… u must be really good.
I guess I need 2 get used to it.. im still new to this.