Lovely Figure Sandwiches

Today, my god-daughter has school excursion to Singapore Discovery Centre after her usual lessons; another long day for her.

She decided to bring along bento for the afternoon; too many items added to her usual super heavy school bag, have decided to pack for her and her good friend ~ R, a very plain box of food contains of  figure sandwiches, waffle cookies and GardeniaTwiigies Choc-A-Lot.

Glad that I could make use of the facial expression & 'happy' wording imprint which I bought from 100yen shop in Malaysia on these sandwiches.

Dim Sum Bento 点心小便当

It's been years we'd yet had our breakfast at Toa Payoh hawker centre.  Finally, we went there for some marketing and breakfast yesterday.  Managed to join in the long queue to buy the steamed buns (包子) .
Our friend Diana given us her homemade shumai (烧卖); given me some ideas to fix up a simple bento.
I decided to packed this Dim Sum (点心) bento to work; shared this with a colleague and she likes it very much.

Sausage Bun

Ling used the same dough from butter coconut buns to bake these delicious sausage buns.  Both her kids loves these home-baked buns.

Butter Coconut Bun

C-O-C-O-NUT.... Yes ! Butter Coconut Buns ~~~ great recipe that Ling's found and she decided to bake the buns today. 

It has been awhile havent eaten this and now we have the home baked buns!

Animal's Buns

Ling's mom made some sardine bun's someday ago. Everyone was raving about it.

So today, we tried out with various fillings (sausage, chesse, red bean paste, tuna, etc)

Ling added little details on the buns for the kids ~ Little piggy, mouse, bear & chicks. Our good friend, Diana made the chocolate dough into "rugby"!

The verdict? Everyone loves the cute buns but the dough is a bit hard.

Probably becoz we put in too much fillings (greedy!!!) and too little dough. Some of our mouse even "pooped" (too much filling) while we baked them.

We will keep that in mind, more dough & less filling the next time we bake.

At one glance, these buns look like Penang famous Tau Sa Piah.