Paprika Chicken Bento & Buddy’s Fame
Before I get to a bento I made last week, here’s a peek at Buddy’s claim to fame in Japan:
Yes, it’s unbelievable, but my little man is in an iPad 2 commercial. People have been asking me how this happened and the short version of the story is that a casting lady saw him eating shave ice with grandma and grandpa at Waiola Shave Ice and thought he’d be great. In the end, he was who they wanted. The funniest reaction so far has been from my father-in-law, who blurted out, “But he looks so Japanese!” and then kept staring from the commercial to him and back, not believing it was actually him.
And I admit, when I finally saw it, I teared up a bit finally seeing him in it. 
I made this bento last week, using a J-List box I hadn’t unpacked in quite some time. Sadly, it’s now out of stock or I’d have given you guys the link to buy it. The chicken is sprinkled with this paprika mixture I bought at a local craft fair, but I don’t think I put enough of it on, as it looks a little pale. In the bottom bowl tier is rice and then next to the chicken I put eggplant and cucumber pickles and a nice big ume.
Since this was leftover chicken, I just sliced it up and arranged it all and packed this in less than 10 minutes!
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My name is Crystal Watanabe and I'm 32 years old, living in Honolulu, Hawaii with my husband and two children. I have an addictive personality and that's a terrible thing when you're into cute bentos. I own over 200 bento boxes and way too many bento accessories!. 
SO cute!! He does look totally *Japanese* ^_^
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Haha, I should hope so!
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Omg that’s so cool!
Bless is he totally excited about it? How did he feel about shooting it etc? Oooh did you meet lots of fancy apple people and get like inundated with free keyrings and ipods and tshirts etc
Congratulations to Buddy
bless just wait til he’s chatting to the girls in school “yeah… i was in an apple commercial… but no biggie.”
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He was pretty proud to show it to Grandma and Grandpa and wears this goofy shy look on his face when everyone says “awww” when he comes on. lol
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He’s so adorable!!!
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Thanks Heather!
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That is so cool! Bento looks good too.
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Thanks jomamma!
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