Character Bento: Keroppi!

Opening the fridge today, I decided to just make some late lunch with the leftovers I had in there. I happened to have just watched a video on this adorable Rilakkuma omurice (omelette rice) and felt a little creative. And TADA~!  The result of last night's carrots, mushrooms, avocado, tuna and rice dabbled with creativity.
From this....

To the happy smiling frog!! :>

It really was quite simple to make, took me about maybe 30 minutes in total. Well, if anybody's curious and need some inspiration on making adorable lunches, here's my recipe!

Eyes:
- Roughly 2 tablespoons of rice per eye
- 2 teaspoon Apple cider vinegar or Rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon of sesame seeds to taste
- 1 teaspoon Tuna for the filling
- 2 sliced pieces of mushroom

Firstly dissolve the sugar into the vinegar then mix everything except tuna together. Separate rice in half for each eye. Scoop one half onto a piece of gladwrap and wrap it around the rice and mould it into a ball with your hands. Flatten the ball and add place the tiny bit of tuna in the middle and roll it into a ball again. Garnish with a mushroom per eye =D

Face:
- 1/2 Avocado
- Rice (as much as you want to eat)
- 2 carrots
- 2 tiny slice of seaweed for the mouth (or linseeds if you don't have any like me)
- Filling: whatever you want, e.g. leftover carrot, mushroom and tuna

Mash avocado into the rice. Next, put the filling onto a plate and pile them in a small circle (The less filling you have the easier!) Scoop out all the avocado-rice onto a piece of cling wrap and similar to what was done with the eyes, form a pancake out of it. Instead of rolling the rice back into a ball, place your pancake of rice over the circle of filling. The more rice you have, or the less filling you have, the easier it will be to cover all the filling. Then arrange carrots and seaweed/linseeds until you get a face  :)

If you have about 3/4 of a bowl of rice (which I unfortunately didn't have), you can place some cling wrap in an empty bowl, place all the avocado-rice on top of that, then with a spoon push the rice against the edges of the bowl until it covers the top of the bowl. Make sure you have enough rice at the bottom of the bowl but there should be a small hole in the middle of the bowl where you can put your filling in. Quickly tip bowl onto the centre of a plate so not to let anything fall out and gently knock on the sides of the bowl to make sure everything comes off the bowl.

This is what it would look like if you didn't have enough rice the top of the bowl- it makes it harder for you to tip the bowl onto the centre of the plate while keeping a round shape.

Not sure if my explanation made any sense... so good luck! Hehehe... and time for me to start studying I suppose.