Chef Bonju Project
What is known about Bonju?
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WHO IS HE?
Chef Bonju was first mentioned in the news on August 3rd, 2006. He is an orange blumaroo, who got his first debut from Cyrodrake's gaze-plot. He was the ships chef and sailed with the ship all time of plot. Especially Hoban didn't like his cookings, so after a fight between Hoban and Bonju, Bonju decided to push Hoban over. So the ship continued their trip, and tried to find Hoban after they noticed his disappearance. After a long time of sailing they found Hoban, and Bonju was sorry that he lost his temper.
Bonju's greetings on Culinary Concoctions; You approach a rather surly looking orange Blumaroo. Judging by his clothing, you guess he's the cook on this ship. "Another one!? Ever since we landed here, I've been bothered by countless visitors. I don't think it will ever end." He lets out a deep sigh. "I guess I'll make the most of it while I'm here. I am a master culinary artist, after all!"
He looks quite pleased with himself, doesn't he? In any case, he begins to explain the wonders of the rather ordinary mysterious cooking vessel that sits before you both.
"This isn't just any ordinary mysterious cooking vessel!" Oh... right. "You see, it can combine two or more items into something spectacular... with my help, of course! I bet you've never seen anything like that before!"
Hmmm. You seem to recall something about a magical cooking po... "Hey! Are you listening?" He snaps you back to reality and you forget what it was you were trying to remember. "Anyway, choose two or more items from your inventory and hand them over to me. I'll put them in the magical cooking vessel and we'll see what comes out. We have to be careful, though. There have been... incidents, but we won't talk about that."
Choose items from your inventory using the form below. Make sure each item is different. You cannot mix two or more of the same item.
Jujerz's noticed; When thinking of combination of mystery island's cooking pot and the Culinary Concoctions, the items of Mystery Island's Cooking Pot were released in the news. TNT also stated out that the items were from mystery island's cooking pot. So should we believe that the result items already exist? Also, is it strange that they directly released the end result items to the Mystery Island Cooking Pot, and no resulting item for the Culinary Concoctions?
SOME FACTS
Shenkuu was released after the avatar. Only the Lunar Temple was released after the Cyodrake's Gaze plot. All of the other pages were available on the Cyodrake's Gaze ship itself.
The only item, that includes Chef Bonju's name is Chef Bonju stamp, and that, as well as Hoban stamp (as well as every else Shenkuu stamp), was released after the avatar.
Orange blumaroo plushie was released after the avatar.
Snarkie neither anyone else in TNT has said absolutely nothing. (See Snarkie's mail and editorial articles bottom of the page)
OTHER GUIDES
Here are other good guides which makers have had lots of work;
Clem's mixing guide ll Trixx's Bonju guide
Tried and tested(not updated) ll
Heeleep's Bonju page ll Hyhen's Bonju Guide
COMMENTS ON HIS COOKING
"Anshu and I were discussing how awful the food's been lately. That anchovy casserole really did a number on my-" -Linae
"'Are you kidding?' I shouted back. 'That food was AWEFUL! You're lucky I'm the only one who walked out!'" -Hoban
Dispite the remarks against his cooking, the crew repeats in every version that they ate and ate and ate. They are always grinning widely as they shove their smiling faces. There is actually an image of Linae protecting her plate from Shumi who is hover over her shoulder.
ITEMS
Here are a few items that have "bonju" in the title.
Bonju Stamp
Bonju is also very talented at cleaning.
Bonju and Captain Tuan Friend Garland
Display your love for your friends with this colorful garland! This item is only available if you have a virtual prize code from Neopets: Puzzle Adventure Video Game!
There is a book that could be vital to acheive the avatar, or at least provide a clue.
Anger Management for Navigators
Tip #1: Always eat the chefs meals, even if it tastes like cardboard. This was given out by the Advent Calendar in Y8.
Chicken Filets with Fancy Sauce
This item's description is unknown. The fry pan can be the pan that Bonju is holding on few pictures above. Try mixing fried chicken items and sauce items.
IMAGES
In this section you will find all images of bonju that have been published on neopets, including any additional information.
This banner was placed on the neopets front at Neopets 9th Birthday on November 15th, 2008! As you can see the banner mentions the bonju avatar, which means that the method to finding out the avatar is still unknown.
When calculated back, 831 days before November 15th, 2008 takes us to August 7th, 2006. A day before the avatar was released. There was a leap year day in there. Possibly TNT miscalculated?
This is an image for the Cyodrake's Gaze sidebar when Bonju appears.
This is the image of Bonju at the homepage of Culinary Concoctions.
This is the image that appears when you fail at combining items in the Culinary Concoctions.
This is thought to be the image after you combine the correct ingredients at the Culinary Concoctions.
This is the Bonju Shop keeper image.
Just some neopets fun images of Bonju and shenkuu food. The Food image contains Bluchard Root and Purplum Buns.
This is an image of the map room where Hoban did all his navigator duties.
A picture of one of the maps from the Cyodrake's Gaze.
Yet another map from the Cyodrake's Gaze.
The Cyodrake's Gaze at Krawk Island.
The Cyodrake's Gaze at Mystery Island.
The Cyodrake's Gaze at Faerieland.
This is the Cyodrake's Gaze. This was before Shenkuu was released. It was through this image you could access the Culinary Concoctions before Shenkuu.
Here are some pictures zoomed in on possible foods from this image.
Actual Food Item Match
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| Bluchard Root |
As for the brownish tomato looking thing, it can only be located it in one other place: Kou-Jong.
When Hoban talks about his time living in a supply crate at sea, in the crate there are what appear to be apples.
The petpet is eating something in this picture. Take a closer look.
Look like a cookie to you?
The second caption contest that has bonju in it.
PLOT FOOD
We went through the plot and zoomed in on the food the crew was dining on. They are organized them as to who was eating what food.
| Captain Tuan |   |
| First Mate Shumi |  |
| Hoban |     |
| Linae |     |
| Kentari |        |
| Anshu |   |
| Orrin | Orrin was sent to perform his duties watching over inventory during dinner. Locked in his store room in fact. |
| Chef Bonju | You never see the Chef eat his own food. |
Outside Neopets References
This is the banner from Culinary Concoctions from before the site layout change. The banner says, "Bork, Bork, Bork" in the background. This was a phrase the muppets chef stated when he was getting ready to cook. Right after he said this, he would throw his utencils over his head and behind him causing a crash that startled him.
Also could possibly be saying, "pork".
When describing what he knew was truth about the night Hoban disappeared, Anchu said, "But it was all tyrannian to me." This is a reference to Julius Cesar as stated, "It was all Greek to me."
Neopian Times Editorial & Snarkie
Snarkie is a member of The Neopets Team (TNT). Apparently there were rumors about her saying something about the avatar. She cleared things up with this post.
So, only it's confirmed that Snarkie said nothing about it.
The information about the burninate avatar, is refering to the Scorchio - Scordrax.
There have been also rumors that claims that she is the maker of the avatar. This is probably just a rumor, because snarkie is a programmer. However, she says on her lookup she helps design avatars.
The Neopian Times has, on several occasions answered questions about Chef Bonju. These are displayed below.
Thanks to Juji, we finally got this thing cleared up; Hoban is a yellow aisha. Horray!
So according this TNT has confirmed that bonju avvy has nothing to do with the source codes, and many persons have checked the source codes without finding anything notable. However, you can never know, has this really anything to do with it. For example TNT always claims jelly world doesn't exit, but as we know, it exists.
So,this most likely means that Snarkie does not have it either, or that she doesn't count because she's a member of TNT.
Well... TNT isn't giving any hints.
In fact, TNT isn't saying in this one that no one has it anymore, but that still doesn't mean that someone has it, it's really really strange, if someone has the Bonju avatar. Probably TNT just doesn't want to mention the same thing again. And yeah, remember always get proof if someone has it, and never pay for clues. No one has it yet.
Well, this answer is really impossible to analyze. Here TNT isn't saying anything clearly, the answer in this question can mean
1. No can mean in this situation that "No, it has nothing to do with 831 days", or
2. "No we aren't confirming anything, becouse we are so evil", or
3. "No, 831 days has a meaning with the avatar, you just have to figure it out by yourself!".
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