working late again, getting two motions out the door on two different cases – yikes.
turned to my old stand-by for late nights: vietnamese or thai food, and my box from hapa bento. this combination always lets me throw things together at the last minute and still have it come out looking nice!
top left: bean sprouts in a food cup topped with two purple carrot flowers, with four tamagoyaki slices and two halves of a baby roma tomato. top right: two asian pear fans, with a food cup of pomegranate seeds, kumquats on a pick, and some cherries (with their real stems left on, for once!). bottom right: fried rice with mint leaves and a flower-shaped container of soy sauce for some extra salt (it was kinda bland this time). bottom left: sauteed black mushroom with carrot and green onion accents.
main compartment: leftovers from last night’s dinner of homemade vietnamese spring rolls (mine are vegetarian — bean sprouts, cilantro, basil, tofu, carrot, and glass noodles dressed with soy sauce, sesame oil and chili flakes), with yellow beet stars added for garnish, lined with a cabbage leaf and buttressed by pickled radishes, yellow and red tomatoes. right compartment: leftover fried rice with a yellow beet and purple potato flower garnish. bottom compartment: edamame in a silicone food cup, with yellow wax beans and red carrot sticks. not pictured: homemade peanut butter/soy/sriracha dipping sauce for the spring rolls.
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