Let's make some cute cat-shaped rice balls!

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¥ 3,500 (Tax include ¥ 3,850)
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80 min.
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English, Cantonese, Japanese
9 Jul. 2026 (Thu) 10:30 - 11:50 GMT+9
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Let's make cat-shaped rice balls. From a single cat shape, you can make a white cat, a brown-and-white cat, a calico cat, or a black cat by wrapping it in nori. Try making your favorite cat-shaped rice ball.

Key Skills You’ll Learn

How to Make Onigiri

Self-Practice Support

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*To help reinforce your skills, if you recreate or practice what you learned in the lesson, you can send photos to the instructor via the messaging function for expert feedback (up to 3 times total, within 7 days after the lesson).

We'll send you the recipe after the lesson. Please use it for review and other purposes.

Please prepare your own materials and tools.

Note: ●If you don’t have the ingredients, a punch, or a round mold, I’ll provide instructions on how to make do without them as needed.
●If you can’t find ground sesame seeds, please use black sesame seeds that have been ground.
●Please use freshly cooked or hot rice for the onigiri.
●Tweezers and chopsticks are used to place small pieces of nori.
●If you don’t have a round mold or a straw, use a toothpick to cut the cheese.

Materials and tools to be prepared by a student

1. Rice 180g: Packaged rice is acceptable
2. 1/4 sheet of nori seaweed + a little more
3. 1/2 slice cheese
4. 1 tablespoon soy sauce
5. 1 small amount of ground sesame seeds
6. A pinch of salt (about 1 g)
7. wrap
8. Tweezers or chopsticks
9. kitchen scissors
10. paint brush
11. Dried laver punch or paper punch (0.7~0.9mm diameter), kitchen scissors can be substituted
12. Round mold or tapioca straw (about 1 cm diameter): toothpick if not available
13. Flat handled cutlery
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Maki Ogawa
Bento blogger and author In 2003, when her own child entered kindergarten, she started making bento lunches. She is a "bento blogger" supported by housewives and others for making cute bento in addition to balanced nutrition. She has been featured in magazines and newspapers in Thailand, the Netherlands, the U.K., the U.S., France, Belgium, Canada, and other countries, as well as in numerous media and TV programs in Japan.
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