Zelda Bento: The Adventure of Lunch

Owen Good — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:30:00 MST

Annathered's back from her bento creation station again. She breaks her rule about 3D bentoing to give us a 2D Wind Waker incarnation of Link. It's time for lunch on the east coast, right?

Here's the full list of ingrediments for this lovely scene of Link finding more heart in the forest:

Toon Link:
- potato salad wrapped with lettuce and spinach
- turkey for his face and hands
- carrot for his boots
- egg for his hair
- seaweed and kamaboko (fish cake) for his eyes
- fake sausage for his mouth

Piece of heart:
- konnyaku (yam cake) and kamaboko

Life:
- carrot

Flowers:
- kamaboko
- spinach
- egg sheet

Other food:
- rice
- Japanese style hamburg
- broccoli
- asparagus

Anna's flickr page for this creation gives a point-by-point annotation. Bon appetit!

Bento #28: Toon Link [Anna the Red, via Geekologie]

Gorgeous Nintendo Lunch Creations

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:40:58 MDT

Typically, parents generally can't be bothered to exert more effort beyond sweeping a dozen artery clogging, obesity causing Lunchables into their shopping cart every two weeks then slapping them into Chubby Timmy's backpack. When I was in elementary school, I set the packed lunch bar low, only hoping for an PB&J sandwich that hadn't been flattened by a Red Delicious and praying that the bananas were some shade of yellow.

However, this Japanese mom goes to extreme lengths to keep her children interested in their food, creating gorgeously handcrafted lunchbox creations, most of them loaded with Nintendo character references. From Super Mario Bros. to Animal Crossing to Mario Kart, these food creations look too good to eat. Not that I'm a fan of carved Vienna sausages and boiled fish paste mind you, just that the craftsmanship is out of this world. Many more here.

Thanks to Synie for the wonderful tip! Michael McWhertor

Kotaku: lunch

Zelda Bento: The Adventure of Lunch

Gorgeous Nintendo Lunch Creations