Bento!

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I made my first bento ever today. I had a lot of fun thinking of different combos of things I could put in without making the ingredients too expensive or having to search for things you can only find in Japan. I also tried my hand at making tamagoyaki for the first time and it turned out tasty, but wow is it a pain to make. You can look at it here. The stars and triangles, plus the white sticks next to the apples are sweet and sour carrots and radishes (soaked in vinigar mostly), which contrast well with the apple sticks. The moon is made of tamagoyaki and there's more of it hidden under the apples. Underneath the moon and star are shitake mushrooms in oyster sauce, and the rice in the seaweed wrapper has mushroom/fall flavouring mixed in (that's what the packaging for the flavouring said *shrugs*). And that's half of a red bean mochi in the cupcake wrapper for dessert.

It may have taken me a few hours to make and put it all together, but I don't begrudge the time since it's going to be a joy to eat that during my India history class this evening. Yum.