There’s a mom from Singapore who’s proven to be a true lunchtime artist — treating her two sons with some incredible, completely edible cartoon creations.
Li Ming is a full-time working mother who is a food styling assassin when it comes to the art of Charabens, an intricate way of arranging meals, the Daily Mail reports.
The 38-year-old began creating her bento masterpieces three years ago for her sons, Ivan Tey, 10, and Lucas Tey, 7, to take with them to eat at school.
Ming has created more than 100 different cartoon lunches, which have included Spider-Man, Super Mario, SpongeBob SquarePants, Despicable Me minions and the now-ex-feline, Hello Kitty.
But these aren’t your typical, peanut butter and jelly with a Snack Pack on the side lunches.
Ming goes all out with her meals: Mickey and Minnie Mouse rice balls, Peppa Pig pasta, Teddy Bear hors d’oeuvres and even snowman soup in the winter when it’s cold.
The lunch festivities all started because Ming’s elder son wasn’t too keen on going to class.
“‘I started packing charabens for Ivan to take to school because he had a hard time coping,” she told Caters News. “He refused to go to school and cried every day — he was not used to the longer hours and missed me.”
Ming tries to make around six different edible pieces of art each week that will range from famous cartoon characters to holiday-themed feasts. She has even begun concocting some top-secret designs that she plans to put in an upcoming book.
“It’s difficult to say which ones are my favorite because I like all of them for different reasons,” she said. “Ideas come from everywhere.”