#the black lion

Made a black lion rice ball!

I had just found some black food coloring today at the store and wanted to try it out and finally be able to make the black lion since it’s so hard to make black with the other colors.

And I also wanted to try my hand at making rice balls so this was a perfect test for it..

I filled the rice ball with shrimp (I know, How typical right? XD ) so it ended up being a sweet n sour shrimp rice ball not sorry! I love sweet n sour shrimp!

I’m not gonna lie, this was challenging. And dying the different colors for and connecting them to the lion was a bit hard. But well worth it! X3

I painted the red parts on with a chopstick and put on seaweed nori for eyes, nose and mouth.

As you can see, I put on the yellow dyed rice on for the glowing eyes. I felt it made this rice all look more accurate.

And yes I ATE IT! It’s mine so I can! XD

Sorry Shiro but this lion is my dinner X3

Sorry, not sorry! Lol