Hi bento pals! Today's lunch is Korean-inspired: fried rice with diced radish kimchee, rainbow chard, baby brussels sprouts, orange peppers, buna shimeji mushrooms, carrots and scallions with baby tomato and watercress accents.
Sliced five-spice chicken also for lunch, along with a traditional Korean cookie in a pretty flower shape, blueberries and a blood orange slice. The fried rice has a special nutty, green flavor from a drizzle of Korean perilla oil:
An after lunch snack of Korean rice cakes, whose packaging inspired the colors in this bento...
Have a fun weekend!
Wow, very colorful bento! I love your bento box too!
ReplyDeleteHi Mayu, thanks for sharing your sweet comment! I always come back to this particular bento box :D
ReplyDeleteLove at first sight!!! *___* :D :D :D
ReplyDeleteHi Token! Aw thanks, glad you liked. Happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteYou nailed the colors perfectly - they always make me smile. Enjoy your weekend - I hear it's sunny - can you send some back our way.
ReplyDeleteoh.. thats a perfect bento..yummy..
ReplyDeleteHi Karina, thanks so much, given your sharp eye for color that's a lovely compliment! OK, I'll send over some sun...but we are also to get 60 mile hour winds :o!
ReplyDeleteHi Bobo! Thanks and have a super weekend ^^!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful delicious lunch as always! Yummy :D
ReplyDeleteWow, it's so fun! You ate the rainbow Jenn, that must have made you very happy, the rainbow eater :D
ReplyDeleteI want to eat the rainbow too, Jenn...hehehe...super great bento!!!
ReplyDeleteHave a super great and rainbow color weekend too. ;)
Hello and thank you Jenn!
ReplyDeleteTee hee, cute comment, Ta ^^!
ReplyDeleteHi Emily, what a cheery comment--thanks and wishing you the same, hugs!
ReplyDeleteSay Jenn, You captured your rainbow perfectly. I think I'm will try adding some kimchee to my fried rice soon, nice flavor combination. Another tasty posting friend!
ReplyDeleteHi Robin! Hope you'll give kimchee a try in your fried rice soon, it adds a little special zing! Have a fantastic weekend, going to fly over to your blog and see what's cookin'!
ReplyDeletewow I gotta get myself one of those oil because your food looks delish! what kind of taste does that oil give out? I love korean food...and japanese food. heheh!!
ReplyDeleteHi Mrs. P! I love this oil--it has a nutty taste with hints of the fresh green herbiness of perilla. It also has healthy omega oils.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting, happy cooking :D!
Oh, yeah! Korean Bento! THANK YOU!! Love the beautiful arrangement! And I love perilla oil. :)
ReplyDeleteHi there Kay! I always think of you when I put a Korean foods bento together ;) Perilla oil is awesome, glad you're a fan too :D
ReplyDeleteWow, this looks so pretty and colourful...!!
ReplyDeleteHi there, thanks for this nice comment, Cooking Gallery!
ReplyDeleteLove this bento! Beautiful as always! I have to try the perilla oil. The owners of our Asian market are Korean, so they carry many great Korean products!
ReplyDeleteHi Lyndsey! Thanks so much. I'd love to hear what you think of perilla oil, I'm kinda addicted at the moment, esp. over hot brown nice--so nom :))
ReplyDeleteso bright and colorful...
ReplyDeleteI instantly feel happy by looking at it :)
The colors jump off the screen! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteJenn, I'll be sure to let you know. Right now I use organic virgin coconut oil over hot brown rice or I just picked up this Korean brown rice and grain blend...nom :D
ReplyDeleteLovely comment, thanks so much Yenny!
ReplyDeleteHi Heather, glad you liked this one :D!
ReplyDeleteHi Lyndsey, Mmmmmm, organic virgin coconut oil, I must try that!
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