Most of China's bentos have nothing to do with "cuteness", because it is usually a simple combination of rice, vegetables, meat and soup, and you can fill in your stomach. So if you want to make a "lovely lunch", you can learn from Japanese lunch.
the first trick is to make good use of ingredients to shape the shape.
Cute food shapes can make the original simple food cute. And often these lovely shapes are traceable. Like a cute cat that many people like, like a stupid brown bear, like a yellow and violent yellow chicken and so on.
These shapes are actually not difficult to create. If there are no ingredients to match, just use laver and cut them into your favorite cartoon animal images. Make ordinary lunch cute in an instant.
and if the ingredients themselves have certain characteristics, the better way is, of course, to use them. For example, tomatoes, corn, tofu skin, laver, etc., through the kneading of rice balls and the collocation of different materials, a lovely hen and chicken rice ball sushi lunch box is baked.
the second trick: imitate and learn from other people's lovely lunches.
I really don't know what to do. There is still a way. Learn from others, refer to others' practices, and imitate by yourself. Those who can cook by themselves are not skilled, but can follow the gourd painting gourd ladle (where can they eat their own bento in the dark) ...
On the Internet, search for a picture of a lovely bento casually, and then think about what ingredients they need, what they like and what they like by analyzing the picture. Then analyze how much weight is needed and what steps are needed to achieve the effect in the food picture ...
For example, the panda lunch box in the above picture is broccoli, rice balls, green dates or olives, cucumber rolls, laver and sliced meat as ingredients, estimate the weight, and then cook it according to the conventional treatment, and then put the shape in the lunch box according to the picture.
the third trick: use other tools to create cute shapes.
In fact, there are many tools on the market now, which are designed for the convenience of making lovely lunches. If you use these tools to make lunch, you can get twice the result with half the effort.
For example, the bear lunch box above is filled with fried rice and served with cut laver. Isn't it difficult?
There are molds for rice balls. There are molds of various shapes. When making, you can directly fill the rice balls like children play house, and you can concave out various shapes ...
Do you feel a little subversive? But with these molds, it can really reduce the production time and increase the value of rice balls. Why not?