November 01, 2011

Office Guy Bento

Recipe: Office Guy Bento办公男弁当

Ingredients
Measurements: tsp. = teaspoon | TBSP = tablespoon
Preparation
  • 1. Sketch the look and features (hair, eyes, mouth etc) of office guy on a piece of paper. Stack a piece of nori sheet below the sketch, then cut out the sketch together with nori sheet. Size of the head on my sketch is the exact size of cookie cutter in step 3.
  • 2. Cook turmeric rice using normal rice cooking method.
  • 3. Place a round cookie cutter on a piece of nori sheet. Nori sheet should be able to cover the side edge of the hair area and also able to cover bottom side of the whole head.
  • 4. Scoope white rice into the cookie cutter and press with a metal spoon while rice is still hot. The depth is about 1-inch.
  • 5. Gently remove cookie cutter. Cover the top of white rice with a piece of cling wrap. Then, shape the top edges into rounded corner. Remove cling wrap and set aside.
  • 6. Place the hair piece on office guy. Press to stick on rice.
  • 7. Next, place eyes, glasses, and mouth in position, then press to stick.
  • 8. Seal the side edges of hair area with nori. Then, cut off any excess nori. Cover head with the cling wrap used in step 5.
  • 9. Move on to the body part. Repeat step 3 and 4 for body part. Then, wrap rice with a piece of cling wrap and shape rice into body shape as shown in the photo. Cut out a neck tie from nori sheet then stick tie to the correct position.
  • 10. Cut out a pair of blush from the red part of immitation crabstick by using a straw.
  • 11. Stick body and head together while rice is still warm. Then, glue the blush to the correct position using honey. Office guy onigiri is ready.
  • 12. Cover half of a square container with some yellow turmeric rice.
  • 13. Transfer office guy onigiri to place on top of turmeric rice very carefully. Then, add blached broccoli and silicone baking cups to cover the empty side, leaving some space for the red fermented bean curd fried chicken.
  • 14. Place tomato slices as divider in the center. Fill the silicone cups with potato mixed salad.
  • 15. Cut red fermented bean curd fried chicken into strips.
  • 16. Finally, place chicken to the reserved space. Office guy bento is completed.




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