Babalicious review – Delicious Bento sets from Different Cuisines!

Be it for your personal gathering with loved ones or that large-scale corporate event coming up in a few months’ time, Babalicious has got your back with their wide array of Bento boxes for you to choose from. Showing off a range of different cuisines such as Peranakan and local Chinese food, these are convenient yet not compromising on appearance and taste!

Babalicious is Halal-certified, so you can order away! Check out our short video on the delectable Bento sets:

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For this review, we came down to Babalicious to try out their Bento sets, and here are the food items we tasted:

• Babalicious Peranakan Bento Boxes
  • Ayam Buah Keluak
  • Sate Ayam
  • Itek Sio (Braised Duck)
  • Ayam Pongteh
  • Beef Rendang
• Babalicious Bento Boxes From The Wok (Noodle)
  • Hor Fun with Beef
  • Hor Fun with Seafood
  • Black Pepper Udon with Seafood
• Babalicious Bento Boxes From The Wok (Rice)
  • Nyonya Fried Rice
  • Olive Fried Rice
  • Buah Keluak Fried Rice
  • Sweet & Sour Fish with Steam White Rice
  • Sweet & Sour Chicken with Steam White Rice

Read on to find out our favourite Bento Boxes from each category, as well as our thoughts! 😊

Babalicious Peranakan Bento Boxes

The Peranakan Bento Boxes were my favourite series amongst the Bento sets I’ve tasted! As someone who simply adores Peranakan food and strong-flavoured dishes, I especially enjoyed the Beef Rendang set. In case you have never heard nor tasted this dish before, Beef Rendang is a marinated beef stewed in a flavourful, rich gravy. This gravy contains coconut milk spiced with chilli paste, ginger, lemon leaves and a little bit of curry powder! It is so luscious and savoury, tying the dish together.

With sides such as crunchy Chap Chye and crispy Ngoh Hiang, you and your guests won’t be disappointed with these Bento sets!

Perfect if you’ve Peranakan guests, the other sets such as the Ayam Pongteh and Itek Sio (Braised Duck) sets are delicious as well – especially served with steaming hot, white rice. The meats were also cooked till tender, so you needn’t worry about tough or undercooked meat when it reaches you.

The medley of savoury flavours was enough to bring me back down memory lane and reminisce of times when my mother will cook these familiar dishes for the family – definitely worth the try!

Taste rating: 5/5

Babalicious Bento Boxes From The Wok (Noodle)

As the name suggests, these Bento Boxes are cooked straight from the wok, giving the food a nice ‘wok hei’ aroma when you take off the lid. We enjoyed the Hor Fun with Beef tremendously, with each Hor Fun piece tastefully charred from being tossed in the wok. Not only was the ‘wok hei’ taste prominent, the Hor Fun itself was bursting with that familiar, savoury flavour that many of us love. Moreover, the smokiness of the Hor Fun paired with the tender beef slices was a match made in heaven – they taste mouth-watering good together!

Special mention to the Black Pepper Udon with Seafood as well, with soft and chewy Udon noodles and fresh seafood to accompany – a delightful reminiscence of Japanese dishes. These Bento sets are topped off with sides such as a Fried Egg and Ngoh Hiang, making sure you taste the full ‘wok hei’ package! 😊

Taste rating: 4.5/5

Babalicious Bento Boxes From The Wok (Rice)

Similar to the previous, these Bento sets are mainly rice dishes. Anyone who knows me will know that I love my rice, so I was pumped to try out these Bento sets! After trying out the 5 rice sets, I finally picked a winner – the Nyonya Fried Rice. Don’t get me wrong, all 5 of these Bento sets were delicious and so tantalizing to dig into! The Nyonya Fried Rice was sautéed with sambal chilli and fresh shrimp, coating the fluffy rice in its mildly spicy goodness – a simple yet scrumptious meal!

Besides the fried rice, there was also Sweet & Sour Chicken/Fish with steamed white rice, which held just the right amount of tangy sauce. I loved how you could taste the evident ‘wok hei’ in these Bento sets, just like the previous Hor Fun dishes. Also accompanied by Fried Egg and Ngoh Hiang, the different tastes and textures come together harmoniously, and we thoroughly enjoyed these.

Taste rating: 5/5

From $10.90 per item, hesitate no more – get your hands on these Bento sets from Babalicious for your next event.

*Information is accurate as of 31^st July 2019.