Japanese Food Artist Shows How to Create the Cute Character Bento Boxes She Makes For Her Kids
Great Big Story goes behind the scenes with Japanese mother and food artist Tomomi Maruo to find out more about how she has been teaching others to make incredibly cute character bento boxes (kyaraben) at her home for the past 11 years.
In Japan, children bring bento boxes to school with them for lunch, and Tomomi Maruo has a knack for making these lunches way more fun. As a food artist, she can take up to an hour each day creating entirely edible characters for these special bento boxes called charaben. Her talent for crafting these intricate charaben has prompted her to teach small classes to others eager to master the skill.
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