Chara-ben Creation: Discover the Art of Japanese Character Bento Making
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Shinagawa City
Learn the art of Japanese character bento making and create adorable Chara-ben featuring popular characters like Kumamon and Totoro. Discover the unique culture of Japan through cute and delicious edible creations.
Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • 第22相信ビル - Making cute shaped food using various ingredients.
    We will make heart-shaped rolled omelet together and egg clape flower as well.
     Tako Winner is a cute-octopus-looking-cut wiener which needs to be first cut for making octopus’s feet. When you fry it in the fry pan and season it with ketchup, you will have a cute octopus.
     We also will use deep-fried fish sausage with seaweed and boiled broccoli.

Making a character’s face and body.
Making face and body by mixing black sesame and salmon flakes with rice.
To make eyes, nose, mouth, etc. by the ingredients as nori (seaweed), cheese, crab and so on.

Packing them in a lunch box.
Put the character in the middle and stuff the side food around it tightly.
 It’s so cute when finishing the bento making the cheers of “Too cute to eat!”

What's Included
  • Lunch included
Meal Options
  • Character bento
Additional Information

The Japanese ‘Bento’ has gained international fame as ‘BENTO’. A specific type of bento called ‘Chara-ben’ involves arranging rice and other food items into shapes resembling manga and anime characters. This unique food art illustrates Japan’s advanced animation culture and has garnered global interest. In this guide, we will show you how to create a Chara-ben featuring popular characters like Kumamon and Totoro in English. The process involves decorating a delightful chara-ben using seaweed and cheese, which often results in a creation too adorable to eat. Through this experience of crafting Japanese-style food, we hope to familiarize foreigners with Japanese culture.

Location
中華料理幸楽
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_1yHcQg2r5qAS9F8SZpC5vFGzcxipUoM/view?usp=sharing Nearest Station: SELVA Kitchen Studio, 2nd floor, 1-19-9 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Z9897krglennp
Feb 20, 2023
Great experience - I enjoyed the experience. The teacher was a very nice lady that taught us very patiently allowing us to be able to make our character bento.
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Russk01
Oct 8, 2019
When in Tokyo - Learn how to prepare and consume this wonderful dish! Noriko is an excellent tutor, superb spoken English and the 2 hours was great fun.Highly recommended!
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Noemie_havelange
Aug 8, 2019
Chakra-Ben Totoro - Excellent activity for the family, we really enjoyed the workshop, it was fun and interesting. Noriko is so nice. I really recommend it
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