Mom Li Ming prides herself on her Bento Monsters, the gorgeous boxed lunches she makes for her two school-age sons.
She says she makes about six of the lunches (also called charaben or kyaraben) every week.
"I started making charabens when [my older son] went to primary school in 2011. He missed me terribly then and had problems adjusting to the longer hours at primary school. I started packing him charabens, hoping to cheer him up and let him feel my presence and love through them," she wrote on her website. "My younger boy ... loves the charabens I make for his brother and requested for them too."
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