Spaghetti faces (B#318)

Been wanting to include a spaghetti bento for a while now.

Like the idea of using the spaghetti as the hair! The face was made out of fish cake.

In this bento is spaghetti bolognaise (meat sauce at the bottom), some romaine lettuce, strawberries, mandarin oranges and slices of kumquat (with the seeds removed, much easier to eat).

'Manly' bento (B#317)

This was a quick fuss free bento with no kyraben. If you remove the baran pictures, it would be a very 'adult' or 'manly' bento.

In this bento is some chicken floss sandwiches with pretzels, strawberries and kumquat.

My first time eating kumquat FRESH, usually the ones sold here have been dried and preserved with a lot of salt. Come to think of it, haven't had that for a long time too, since I was a little girl. Anyway, read in someone's blog that its the kumquat skin that exudes the most flavour & taste, I agree totally with it. But I'm not sure whether I actually like it, maybe just to be non-biased I should try a few more and see how it goes as already thinking of making some sweet preserves with the remaining bag!!