Nian Gao

I went to learn making nian gao from Gina, at Kitchen Capers. So made use of what I learnt for this year's Chinese New Year.

I bought 2 sizes of boxes to pack the nian gao as gifts for relatives and friends. This is the small box. Forgot to paste the 'fu' sticker in the center of the box before I take pic.

This is the larger box. Somehow the colors look lighter in pic, the actual thing look brighter colors.

Bento #44

This is J's after school snack for yesterday. Strawberries, bear nian gao, broccoli and potato under the broccoli. The small container consists of tartar sauce for the vegetables.

Bento #43

This is J's after school snack for today. Blueberry and tortillas with shredded cheddar cheese.

I cut a piece of tortillas in to halves, place half piece onto a nonstick pan and sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese and heat over medium. I cover the pan so the cheese will melt faster. When most of the cheese melted, I placed another piece of tortillas on top of the cheese and pan fry both side. When it's ready I use a scissors to cut into smaller pieces so can fit into the lunch box.

Bento #42

This is J's after school snack on Monday. Dinosaur pasta with margarine and parmesan cheese, quail egg and blueberry.

Bento #40 & Bento #41

Made these for J and ZY on last Friday. Both of them are pasta lovers, so SH & me brought lots of pasta for them. This dinosaur pasta is from 3lilangels, as she know I like to get cute pasta for J. Sweet of 3lilangels to get extra pack of pasta for SH too.


Both have the same food except J has more carrots as he's a carrot lover. He even finished up ZY's carrots as she did want to eat it.

Bento #38 & Bento #39

Made these for J & ZY as their after school snacks last Thursday. Told SH that I going to prepare vegetables lunch box for J, SH told me to do one for ZY as well. ZY is not a veg eater, so usually she'll not eat any veg at all. But recently ZY willing to eat veg only if she's involve in the preparation.

The lunch box at the top is for J, grapes, potato and broccoli, mayonnaise is provided in the mayo case.
The bottom lunch box is for ZY, the Hello Kitty bottle contained parmesan cheese, she's a cheese lover.

As usual J finished everything in the lunch box, ZY finished the fruits but left the veg intact.

Bento #37

Made these for J & ZY today. They seem hungry after school so decided to make them lunch boxes as their after school snack. Both have the same food.


Mixture of rooster shaped pasta and dinosaur shaped pasta mixed with margarine and powdered parmesan cheese; grapes as the fruit of the day.