A friend brought over some Hawaiian food for lunch today so this bento that was made for lunch is going to be eaten for dinner when I get home.  I'm really peeved now that the rainy season has finally...house: on my carpet in front of the window! Top: kim chee in cup, surumi salad, carrots, a slice of pear, ranch in my melo. Bottom: Rice with gigantor ume, gardenburger riblets in barbeque sauce

Had kimchee fried rice for dinner for the 3rd consecutive day (that's gotta be sum kind of record huh??!!). here's the pic of today's product Kinda moist/wet, but....... that's the way uh-huh uh-huh~~~ i like it Pretty sure that i was gonna be sick of the same thing by the 2nd, but nooooo siree, KIMCHEE FRIED RICE again (i shall blame my tummy and all its weirdness for this). Even the Koreans...

In Japanese, its called onigiri.  In Hawaii, its called musubi.  Its just one big rice ball, filled or unfilled.  Very tasty bento fare. I had a deep, deep craving for rice and pickles. DEEP.  So I made some musubi for lunch!   Musubi filled with tuna/mayo/green onion mixture.  Bottom tier has kimchee, takuan, and grape tomatoes. Hit the spot!

...pig is cooked over hot coals and left to steam for the entire day.  Banana leaves and kiawe wood give the pig its "smoked" flavor.    In my bento I have some kalua pig and rice (bottom) and some kimchee and limu (fresh hawaiian seaweed) with maui onions and cherry tomatoes in the top. SO GOOD.  I'm also excited to say that we'll be having a traditional hawaiian luau for our wedding reception...

Yes, this lunch is HUUUGGGEE..  This box is 1500mL.  I work until 8pm tonight and when I made my bento I hadn't even had lunch yet so this is to satisfy me for lunch and dinner. It really is a nifty box...They are waaaay too cute.  I could probably eat the whole watermelon in one sitting, half of the entire watermelon fits in one tier of this bento box! :) tee hee.  I feel like a giant when I have some

...goodness they were smart enough to realize that people might have a late-night craving for some good poke and left out what they had left over in an oversized cooler for my enjoyment. I picked out some Kimchee style crab and ate half of it over my kitchen sink at home and saved the rest for today's lunch. Score. Kim chee crab salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, and green onions. 2 very happy and starry...

Bento from Friday.  Pretty much ate it for breakfast, don't know what is wrong with me, I was so hungry!!!   Tofu blocks, morningstar farms chick'n nuggets, grape tomatoes, won bok kim chee, bell peppers, cucumbers, shoyu in the HK container.  Quite yums!

...new stuff!!! This bentoman's face is exactly how I feel: ECSTATIC!   Onigiri with cut-out nori, cucumbers, face made with turkeydog hair, cherry tomato and cheese eyes, turkeydog mouth, carrots, kimchee under cucumber stars, chikuwa with grape tomato centers, teriburger cut into strips, turkeydogs fill the rest of the gaps.  Very delicious and used up our leftovers from our housewarming barbeque...

I may end up being the only one who tries it, but I started making kimchi last night.  I'm not following any exact recipe because I couldn't find a kimchee spice kit at Asia Market.  This could make me - a) adventurous or b) disrespectful to hundreds of years of culinary tradition.  There are, however, more than a few dozen recipes for kim chee so I'm going with A.  Here's mine by the way. 2 lg heads...

...weekend, but we did it! Because of the big move, I did not have any time to cook whatsoever. Thankfully, I had a lot of leftovers from restaurants to put a quick bento together for today's lunch.  Leftover bento:  Fried rice and chicken from thai restaurant.  Shrimp and mixed veggies from steak restaurant.  Kimchee in the corner and some cherry tomatoes add some color.   :) Happy bento!