Pom Pom Purin Sushi

Sharing another creation that I made over the weekend. Same reason why I made Winnie the Pooh. I had so much leftover rice from teaching bento workshop so had to find a way to use the rice.

Deco sushi was one good way. Yummy to eat and cute.

Since the rice I had was yellow (was teaching minions bento workshop), so I decided to could make PomPomPurin Sushi!

Deco sushi or known as kazarimakisushi in Japanese is something that I picked up since end 2012. Subsequently after my instructor certification examination in Japan, I continued to make more deco sushi and kawaii sushi designs, and coming up with my own original designs.

This PomPomPurin is definitely an original design based on the popular Sanrio character. 

If you are living outside Japan, this might not be very familiar to you. But PomPomPurin actually won the most popular character in the recent voting conducted by Sanrio for their magazine Strawberry News.

Making deco sushi is definitely very fun and the techniques can be picked up through my recently launched cookbook ‘Kawaii Deco Sushi‘.

Once you master the basic recipes and techniques, there are just so many ways and possibilities you can make Deco Sushi!

The dark brown portions are actually kanpyo, which are seasoned gourd strips. Used that to make the eyes, nose and PomPomPurin’s signature beret.

For kanpyo i like the ones sold at Cold Storage Japanese section. They are value of money and the kanpyo strips are longer and darker in tone. Better for sushi making.

To colour the rice yellow, you can mix in egg yolk, or yellow furikake too.

Paired the PomPomPurin sushi with some baked salmon fillet and a side salad.

So easy and yummy!

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Throwback to this Pom Pom Purin Bento Workshop that I conducted in Dec last year for a private group class.

It has been a long week at work so far, so I decided to post something cheerful and happy!

Do you know Pom Pom Purin from Sanrio?

Interesting, I initially did not even know if there are any fans of Pom Pom Purin here since this character does not seem to be as popular overseas as its other Sanrio peers.

But after I visited the Pom Pom Purin Cafe at Harajuku and made a bento, several have told me how happy they were to see Pom Pom Purin in a bento.

These lovely ladies organised a nice gathering to bond together in make a cute bento today. They chose Pom Pom Purin and to learn tamagoyaki (Japanese egg omelette) for the bento workshop.

Here are some photos of them hard at work.

Thank you for coming to the workshop and booking this private class with me.

They really did a great job to create the yummy Pom Pom Purin Bento~

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A special Sanrio Temari Sushi Bento.

So happy that my bento idea worked!  Aren’t these Sanrio temarizushi cute! heheheh.

I had wanted to make some kawaii character temari sushi (or temarizushi).

Temari means thread balls, and temarizushi simply means making small ball-shaped sushi. These temarizushi are usually served during happy occasions and are so perfect for parties for their small serving sizes.

As I don’t eat a lot of raw meat, I used a mix of different seafood and Japanese ingredients/toppings for my sushi.

This bento would be better for cooler weathers, since there are some raw ingredients involved. So if you plan to make temari bento, try to stay indoors or in aircon conditions to keep the sushi fresh.

This Sanrio Temari Sushi Bento was so super fun to make! I can’t wait to make more other character temarizushi!

First tier of Sanrio Temari Sushi Bento (clockwise from top left)

• Kerropi temarizushi – sushi rice wrapped with Japanese cucumber. The eyes were made of chicken ham and features of seaweed and ham.
• Shredded egg sushi rice topped with pink kamaboko (Japanese fish cake) and sakura denbu (pink fish floss)
• Hello Kitty temarizushi – sushi rice topped with scallop sashimi. I added a ribbon bento picka and features of seaweed and egg sheet.
• Prawn wrapped chirashi sushi rice topped with carrot flora garnish and maple leaf nama-fu (wheat gluten slice).

Second tier of Sanrio Temari Sushi Bento (clockwise from top left)

• Sushi rice with mentaiko filling and topped with sweet pea, lotus root and ikura.
• My Melody temarizushi – sushi rice wrapped with salmon flakes, topped with picnic ham for the ears and features of seaweed and egg sheet.
• Edamame temari sushi rice ball
• Pom Pom Purin temarizushi – sushi rice wrapped with crabstick mayo filling and wrapped with mango. I added a small piece of mushroom for Pom Pom Purin brown beret and features were made from seaweed.

I packed today’s bento in one of my favourite boxes, the clear acrylic bento box from Primitive 陶舎花＊花.

I think the transparent look of the box was perfect for this colourful temari sushi bento. It provided a bright clean base to present these Sanrio temarizushi pieces.

I guess today’s bento can be considered as both a Japanese bento and a character bento (decoben). :) I am looking forward to eating this sushi bento lunch!

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Since I blogged about my experience going to the Pompompurin cafe in Harajuku, Tokyo. I decided to make myself a Pom Pom Purin Bento for lunch today.

Pom Pom Purin is a golden retriever dog character introduced by Sanrio in 1996. His trademark is his brown beret that he always wears and loves the pudding that his mother makes. His best friend is Muffin the hamster.

I have very limited groceries (no eggs!! ahhh) so I made some rice with some curry spices added for the color, and shaped the rice into Pom Pom Purin.

The brown beret is actually a brown button mushroom which I grilled in a pan. Pom Pom Purin’s  features were cut from seaweed.

The side dishes were a sauteed broccoli with tiger prawns and mushrooms. I also added a really cute ‘pudding’, which really was some thick creamy corn soup that I scooped into the nice mini porcelain mug I just bought in Japan.

I also added some purple sweet potatoes and carrots cut into star shapes.

As you you can tell, here are the table placemat, tissue that I took back from the Pompompurin cafe. And at the top left corner is the limited edition Pompompurin mug which I got from my meal at the cafe. Read all about my visit here.

Have a great Tuesday!

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