Week 37: Japan - Gake no Ue no Ponyo Bento

Japanese lunch boxes, aka Bento, has been a recent obsession of mine. Most of my lunches for the past few weeks has been recipes from JustBento.com

While most bentos aren’t super fancy, or character art, I wanted to try my hand at making it fancy.

This Bento is Ponyo, from the Studio Ghibli film. She’s made of cauliflower rice, carrot, salmon, daikon and nori. Her sisters are daikon, carrot and mini bell peppers. The octopi are mini wieners, cut then boiled so the ends turn up. The background is wakame and cucumbers. I found totally cute fish shaped soy sauce containers, so I added that to the scene.



While very tasty, it was waaay too much work to make a picture. Probably would only do this again for special occasions.