Megurine Luka Kyaraben (character bento)

Megurine Luka is the third vocaloid from Hatune Miku.
I made a Kyaraben of her.

hair: ham
face: cheese
blue part: white of egg, food colour
dress: konbu seaweed
decorations: yolk (yellow part of egg)
others: Nori seaweed

To be honest, using food color is not so good solution but it was hard to find "blue" of Luka.
Please remember. We'd better to use natural ingredients as much as possible.

About Vocaloid, refer wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid

Kyaraben:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyaraben

Hatsune Miku Kyaraben (character bento)

I made Hatsune Miku Kyaraben (character bento) again.

Ingredients:
Hair: spinach omelet
Skin: young Gouda cheese (jong Gouda kaas)
Dress: Konbu seaweed
Tattoo: surimi
I got most ingredients from Albert Heijn, a typical Dutch super market.
Bento box is from Blokker, a typical Dutch shop.

About what Kyaraben is, refer quotations from wikipedia as follows.
Kyaraben or charaben (キャラ弁), a shortened form of character bento (キャラクター弁当 kyarakutā bentō), is a style of elaborately arranged bento which features food decorated to look like people, characters from anime or Tokusatsu, animals, and plants. Japanese homemakers often spend time devising their families' meals, including their boxed lunches. Originally, a decorated bento was intended to interest children in their food and to encourage a wider range of eating habits. It has now evolved to the point where national contests are held. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyaraben
Kyaraben of charaben is een verkorte vorm van karakter bentō. Het is een stijl die veel voor kinderen wordt gebruikt. Het eten lijkt op mensen, populaire tv-karakters (Pokémon bijvoorbeeld), dieren en planten. Deze stijl werd vroeger gebruikt om kinderen beter te laten eten, maar tegenwoordig zijn er grote wedstrijden in. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent%C5%8D

Maid cafe Omurice

Omurice (Japanese: オムライス, Omu-raisu), is an example of contemporary Japanese fusion cuisine (Yōshoku) consisting of an omelette made with fried rice and usually topped with ketchup. Omu and Raisu being contractions of the words omelette and rice, the name is a Wasei-eigo(Japanese English). It is a popular dish both commonly cooked at home and can be found at many Japanese-western style diners and izakaya restaurants in Japan. The dish is also popular with Japanese children and now a days it's one of a very popular menu in Maid cafe in Japan.

I made an omurice with maid cafe style.

Omurice typically consists of chikin raisu wrapped in a thin sheet of fried egg.
About chicken rice, refer my last post.

Chicken rice wrapped with omelette.

Decorate Omurice by Maid cafe style.
In maid cafe, maids draw some graphics on the omurice with tomato ketchup. This technique is called "ketchup art" in Japan. Guess it's wasei-eigo too.

Cooking omurice was not so difficult however ketchup art was a bit difficult. but it's interesting to cook.

Inside of omurice.


Wikipedia links:
Yoshoku: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dshoku
Omurice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omurice
Izakaya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izakaya
Maid café; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_cafe

Japanese chicken rice

In Japanese cuisine, Yoshoku (Yōshoku, 洋食 : means Western food) refers to a style of Western-influenced cooking which originated during the Meiji Restoration (1868-). For more detail about Yoshoku, refer wikipedia

Actually Yoshoku means "Western food" in Japanese, but now a days Yoshoku is recognized as a Japanese dish in Western countries!. Curry rice, Korokke, Tonkatsu, etc...Japanese think those are western foods, but Westerners think those are Japanese foods.

This time I introduce Japanese chicken rice which is one of a popular Yoshoku in Japan. It's my favorite Yoshoku.

Stir fry Japanese rise, chicken, onion and other vegetables with Tomato Ketchup.

Other version of a chicken rice is cooked like a pilaf rather than being fried. I like this version.
Japanese chicken rice is also a basic component of Omurice and Doria.

Whiting (Wijting) Tempura

Homemade Japanese dinner. Whiting Tempura and Nameko miso soup.
Huisgemaakte Japans diner. Wijting Tempura en Nameko miso soep.

Whiting(Wijting) or other white fishes are good for Tempra.