Most Chinese lunch boxes have nothing to do with "cuteness", because they are usually a simple combination of rice, vegetables, meat, and soup, which can fill the stomach.

So if you want to make a "cute bento", you can learn from Japanese bento.

The first tip is to make good use of ingredients to create shapes.

Cute food shapes can make originally simple food cute.

And often these cute shapes have traces to follow.

Like cute cats that many people like, like cute brown bears, like very yellow and violent little yellow chickens, etc.

In fact, these shapes are not difficult to create. If there are no ingredients to match, you can just use seaweed to cut into your favorite cartoon animals.

Instantly turn ordinary lunch boxes into cute ones.

And if the ingredients themselves have certain characteristics, the better way is of course to use the ingredients.

For example, tomatoes, corn, tofu skin, seaweed, etc., by shaping the rice balls and matching different ingredients, a cute chicken rice ball sushi bento is ready.

The second trick: imitate other people’s cute lunch boxes.

What should I do if I really don’t know what to do?

There is still a way, learn from others, refer to other people's methods, and imitate yourself. Anyone who can cook is not a skilled person. It is still possible to imitate others (how can you eat yourself if you cook in the dark)

bento)... Search the Internet for a picture of a cute bento, and then analyze the picture to think about what kind of ingredients you need, which ones you like to eat, and which ones you don’t like to eat, and then analyze

How much weight and what steps are needed to achieve the effect in the food pictures... For example, the panda bento in the picture above uses broccoli, rice balls, green dates or olives, cucumber rolls, seaweed, and meat slices as ingredients. Estimate the weight and follow the instructions

After normal cooking, just arrange it in the lunch box as shown in the picture.

The third tip: Use other tools to create cute looks.

In fact, there are many tools on the market today, which are designed to facilitate making cute lunch boxes.

If you use these tools to make bento, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort.