Panda Bento

Recipe: Panda Bento熊猫弁当

Ingredients

Panda Onigiri cooked white long grain or short grain rice (warm / hot) nori sheet red part of immitation crabstick (blush) a little bit of honey

In the lunch box homemade meat balls with ketchup checkered cucumber stir-fry lotus root omelette wrapped cooked white rice (long grain) hot dog flowers

Measurements: tsp. = teaspoon | TBSP = tablespoon

Panda Onigiri Preparation
1. Scoop some rice on a piece of cling wrap. Keep twisting the opening of cling wrap to compress rice tightly into a ball. Open up cling wrap and carefully flatten rice to an oblong with the help of another piece of cling wrap to prevent sticking. Then, carefully place the shaped rice onto a piece of nori sheet.	2. Trim off excess nori sheet from step 1.	3. Place used or new piece of cling wrap on the shaped rice to lightly compress any loosen rice.
4. Cut out all the features of your desired panda from nori sheet.	5. Stick the features on panda onigiri while the rice ball is still warm.	6. Cut out a pair of blush from the red part of immitation crabstick with a straw.
7. Glue the blush in position with some honey and your panda onigiri is completed.