Catered lunch bento boxes — WFH lunch collage!
Another WFH catered bento round — sweet sour fish nasi lemak, popcorn chicken with omelette, chap chye briyani, Indian chicken bento, dry mee siam, mee rebus.
Another week of WFH catered bentos for lunch. 6-photo collage of the week’s variety. 😋
What was in the week’s rotation:
- Sweet-sour fish nasi lemak (left, two bentos) — coconut rice with sambal sweet-sour fish, omelette square, peanuts + ikan bilis, and a side of rice.
- Popcorn chicken with omelette + rice (top-centre) — golden popcorn chicken cubes + omelette square + rice with sambal + peanuts.
- Indian-style chicken bento (top-right) — briyani rice + dahl + chicken pieces + papadum + achar.
- Chap chye + chicken + rice (middle-right) — mixed veg with chicken in sweet-savoury sauce + omelette + rice + sambal.
- Dry mee siam (bottom-left) — stir-fried bee hoon with tau pok puffs, fried beancurd skin, chopped omelette, fried shallots, lime + chilli.
- Mee rebus (bottom-right) — yellow noodles in thick orange-yellow sweet potato-based gravy with fried beancurd, fishcake, beansprouts, half-boiled egg, chopped scallions + lime.
WFH bento variety continues — six different SG-style lunches across the week. Catering team rotating between Malay (nasi lemak / mee siam / mee rebus), Indian (briyani), Chinese (popcorn chicken / chap chye) to keep boredom away.
Mee rebus was the surprise comfort — the SG-Malay noodle dish with sweet potato + soybean-based gravy, garnished with the lime + chilli + boiled egg + scallions combo. Most catering services skip mee rebus because the gravy needs to be made fresh, so it doesn’t bento well. This one held up.
Dry mee siam was the cousin pick — bee hoon stir-fried with the sweet-sour-spicy mee siam sauce, garnished with tau pok puffs + fried beancurd skin + omelette + lime. Drier travel-friendly version of the assam mee siam.
Sweet-sour fish nasi lemak was the seafood option — fried fish chunks in sweet-sour gravy over coconut rice, plus the standard sambal + peanuts + ikan bilis.
Briyani Indian chicken bento was the weekly highlight — proper basmati briyani is the litmus test for an Indian-Muslim caterer. This one passed (grains stayed separate, not clumpy).
The omelette square appears in three of six bentos — the caterer’s egg-section default. Sambal chilli is the universal condiment.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. Six different SG-cuisines covered, mee rebus + dry mee siam were the standouts, briyani held its grain integrity. WFH lunch winning week. 😍👍🏼
