LOL! I haven’t seen that one but “cara-ben” (Character bento) is a big thing among young moms and daughters.
I make my wife’s bento every morning (I work at home and she has to be at her desk at 0730) and while I sometimes stray into smiley faces on the rice, I don’t have the time or the patience to make the real cara-ben.
We don’t use the fancy bento box, though. I like the three compartment Zip-Loc plastic container. The big compartment is perfectly sized for rice, pasta or a sandwich, and the two smaller compartments are good for side dishes, even wet stuff like spinach.
Still, like I said, it’s an idea. So many cutsie bento boxes (some with uproariously funny broken English)... Might be a good E-bay thing.
I’m not sure ANYONE has the patience for Cara-ben!
We saw one that was piggies doing the back stroke, made out of hard boiled eggs, cut ham slices for the appendages and nori for the eyes in a pool of rice. My younger one swears she is going to make it for my older piggie crazed daughter. So far, she hasn’t done it.
We have the nori punches for faces. That’s about as far as we are going!
I’ll have to look for the Ziplock containers. I wonder if they even have them in the states.