Since then I had been thinking of running another workshop meant for both parents and kids, which I think must be fun.

And finally after a month plus toying with the idea, I am glad that I managed to put this into action and worked it out.

Here are details of the workshop.

Date : 9^th June 2012, Saturday
Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm (3 hours)
Venue : House of Ingredients (H.O.I.) at Sri Damansara
Fee : RM120 per pair (1 adult 1 kid)

This will be another hands-on session. You will be assembling a cute sandwich bento with your kid(s), making an attractive party cup (decorating the food into something cute), and last but not least we are going to make a fun pizza making session.

For more detail, please check out the attached flyer.

You can either give HOI a call, drop me an email, or leave a comment here with your email address if you are interested to join the workshop. I will contact you.

Looking forward to meeting you and your kid(s) in the workshop!

It was a pleasure to meet all the participants in the workshop. It is always the greatest thing to get to know people with the same interest isn’t it? To those whom had requested for a personalize starter kit, I hope you like what you received.

I definitely had a great time during the workshop, and I hope everyone took part in the workshop had a great time too while picking up the basic bento making skills.

So here are some photos of the workshop.

The starter kits excluding the bento boxes getting ready to go to their owners.

I really love this nicely equipped classroom. What do you think?

Some of the basic skills shares during the workshop.

And finally here are the masterpieces of some of the participants that I found in my camera, thanks to my superb helpers from HOI during the workshop.

If I remember correctly, this bento belongs to Kristie. I love the way she cut the strawberry.

These are the masterpieces of Oliee and ROPT, the lovely couple. By the way, ROPT was the only male participant in the workshop, bravo!

And this belongs to Celine, a nicely assembled bento for a first timer!

Last but not least this perfectly arranged bento which I can’t recall belongs to whom. Please raise your hand if it is yours!

There are many other nicely assembled bentos. Too bad I didn’t manage to capture the photo of all to share here.

To all my dear workshop participants, I hope the workshop has inspired you to start making bento and thank you for your participation and patient during the workshop. Hope we meet again next time!

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Yes, I will be conducting an adult bento workshop end of this month. I am so excited about it, and I look forward to meeting you all who are passionate in bento making. Parents, let’s make healthy lunches for our kids that they would love and ask for.

Here are details of the workshop.

Date: 25th March 2012, Sunday
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm (3 hours)
Venue: House of Ingredients (H.O.I.) at Sri Damansara
Fee: RM100 per person

This is a hands-on session. I will cover the basics of making character bentos. Once you master these skills, use your creativity and you are on your journey to the fun world of bento making.

You will receive a set of starter kit, and snacks are provided in the workshop.

For more detail, please check out the attached flyer.

You can either drop me an email, or leave a comment here with your email address if you are interested to join the workshop. I will contact you.

Looking forward to meeting you in the workshop!

It was a very relax and fun filled session I should say thanks to the friendliness of Mei Li and the photographer. Okay, I pleaded guilty of not being able to remember the name of our nice Mr. Photographer!

We started off with a chat about kyaraben, and how I venture into this hobby. This was followed by a quick demonstration of a bento making.

I made a teddy bear onigiri bento during the demonstration and this was how it looked like.

There were another two bento-making mums being interviewed by Mei Li and together the stories made up the “Food Art” column in Saturday (4^th February) Star2 Lifestyle section. It is really fun to see other mothers’ creations too, their thoughts on kyaraben, and how they are hooked up to the same hobby.

Just some snapshots of the Star Newspaper for your viewing pleasure here.

A slightly simpler version of the article “Food Art” was also published in The Star Online in the Lifestyle section too. Check it out if you are interested to find out more and you missed last Saturday’s Star newspaper.

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I am really glad that he is adapting well to the new environment, and very happy with the new school.

Everything seems so interesting to him, especially the canteen. He is really fascinated by the fact that he can now buy food from the canteen all by himself!

Therefore for the past weeks since school started, I didn’t make him any bento as I thought it is a good chance for him to learn and fit himself into the new environment. I give him some pocket money every day and keep educating him to choose some healthy food from the canteen. It was a fun process as every day when he comes home, he will tell me what he bought and that gives us a chance to discuss about whether the food is good to take or otherwise.

He failed to get himself any food from the canteen on the first 2 days, and the biscuits I packed for him as backup became his ‘life saver’ food.

Anyway, I was caught by surprised last night when he suddenly asked me why I didn’t make him any bento for so long! I was doing spring cleaning on the cupboard where I keep all the bento gadgets and I guessed that triggers him on bento again.

I have nothing much to use for the bento as I didn’t anticipate making any bento especially today is the last day of school before the 1 week break starts for Chinese New Year. Hence I can only make him a very speedy bento today by using whatever food I have at home.

It was a simple mini meat floss sandwich bento. He requested for a hard-boiled egg too, and I put in some prunes to fill up the bento box. I am glad that I have some nice dragon food picks to decorate the bento so that I can call this a Chinese New Year theme bento. I purposely used the bunny sauce container for the soy sauce since the Rabbit will hop out in few days’ time and the Dragon is gliding in!

Wish everyone a happy and prosperous Dragon Year!

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