Humungousaur Bento
I promised my boy that I will fix him a ranger bento on his birthday last month, but I couldn’t make it due to a few unforeseen circumstances. So, I wanted to make him something special for his field trip to the butterfly farm today, and I asked him earlier if he still wanted that ranger bento.
He told me that he wanted Gaoranger, but not Power Ranger this time. I am totally clueless about all these rangers, and I can’t differentiate them at all. When he passed me the CD, I could not get a good look at it, so I suggested that he change to Ben 10 instead. He was so thrilled when he heard Ben 10, and he immediately brought out his Ben 10 cards and showed me Humungousaur. The moment I saw the “alien creature”, I regretted that I mention Ben 10… 
Humungousaur: Ben’s most physically powerful form. Humungousaur is a dinosaur-man who can, in Ben’s words, “bench press a pickup truck”. He’s also a size changer, who can grow to nearly 60 feet tall, taking unsuspecting adversaries by surprise.
But a promise is a promise and I don’t want to disappoint him again. So, I fixed the egg sheets last Sunday (with the blue egg sheet) and froze them all. The egg sheets will still be fresh for a week, and I took them out yesterday to defroze them. I boiled a piece of ham, which was used as base, and prepared the drawings on a piece of baking paper.
The tracings. Please ignore that Ben 10 Alien Force logo, I gave it up.
Next, I placed the drawing on the ham (and then egg sheets) and started cutting the outline.
Try not to cut directly into the pencil lines so that you won’t stain the food. I’d normally cut along the pencil lines, without touching it. *I hope you’d know what I mean!*
Using a piece of ham as the base will make the “work” more solid and easy to handle. It’s just an option, you may skip this step.
Work in progress…
Frankly, I had almost given up! Cutting nori is sooooo hard!
I wrapped the “work” in saran wrap and refrigerated it in air tight container. So this morning, I just had to top it on the sandwich.
Dang dang dang! Here’s the end product:
My boy’s Humungousaur Bento
He was so over the moon with the bento! He loves it, but he said, why didn’t I fix that Ben 10 logo on Humungousaur? O.o
Boy, it’s too small, let’s forget it ok?
Just in case you are wondering….I took a day off to fix this bento!!!
Oh my!!! How did you manage to cut the nori??? Either your knife must be very very sharp or your hand must be very very steady…LOL!!! One word….KENG!!!
Ehh…does that mean you have to draw a lot of Humungousaur for you to cut? Errr.what is a saran wrap?
khongfamily, with the exacto knife as shown in the pic. It’s very hard la, serious. LOL! I need more practice, if I want to do this type of bento.
Hopefully, my boy won’t ask often, too time consuming.
I drew 2, one for the ham and egg sheet, and another one for nori. Oopss..I mean, food wrap.
I really salute you lar. Thank God I had 2 girls and cutie bentos are a lot more easier to make. Take a day off to make bento?! My hubby would say that I’m “chi sin” jor. hahaha.. anyway, your blog has always been the inspiration for me. Really love it!
this bento is INCREDIBLE! your boy is lucky to get such a special birthday bento treat, and WE are lucky to read about and see pictures of your amazing process! thank you for sharing
Wow! you are really a great mom and i salute you much! i don’t think i can cut the main body let alone the outline. i love reading & looking at your creativity
haha, that sounds like my boy – why didn’t you make it even more complicated and detailed? It’s because to him you can do anything shoppingmum!
Can’t believe you can do this. Even if I took the whole day off, I would have quit in frustration or my eyes would have gone blind!
Lucky boy you have!
Oh wow! This is great! So much efford, but the result is not to top!^^
Oh me oh my! I can see you love your boy so much. So amazing!
Oh me oh my! I can see you love your boy so much. Amazing work.
This is amazing Amy! Thanks to show us how to do it. Wow, you are really a great mom. You even took a day off to fixed this bento, your boy is so lucky lah! If me, I will might giving up half way because nori is very quick to get soggy and it will be hard to cut. This is me making an excuse hehehehe …
ha ha ha – great work.
Thanks everyone for your kind comments.
I won’t do this type of bento often. Ah….too testing me. LOL!
Oh my pal!!! I really must salute to you…. you really have all the patience and determination to do all the cutting and even the smallest details you have done it so well…. realli “THUMBS” up. Your kids are so lucky….
All I can say is OH MY GOD!
wuahhh…..when i saw your drawing, i was like OMG, how are u goona create something like that???????
Speechless!!! I almost went blind just looking at the details in the tracing…not even venturing close to cutting it! How you do it?? Amazing!!
Wow, this is just so amazing! And I salute you for your patient! When I first saw the drawing, I’m like wondering how could this be turn into a bento, but you really did it! really really nice work done. I shouldn’t let me boy see this, or else he’ll ask me to make one and I’m sure I won’t be able to, haha…He love Ben10 too.
This is so amazing! You are very talented- I don’t think that even if I took a whole day off I would be able to do that!!
WOWWW!!!! Very well done Amy! So detail and so complicated, tsk tsk tsk, salute you! I don’t think i can do that.
You are really good! My son is also a die hard fan of Ben 10. Your work is really sooooo detailed and marvelous!
Wow!! R.E.S.P.E.C.T gurl!!
Wow!! R.E.S.P.E.C.T you lah Mommy!!
Nice, kids sure love this one!