A mother from Changchun City in northeast China’s Jilin Province created a set of edible paintings using plates as canvas, condiments as coloring and chopsticks as brushes. /Chinanews Photo

Li Xiaohua mixes together traditional soy bean paste and soy sauce to create a shimmery brown pigment. She then dips chopsticks and spoons in the mixture to create popular cartoon characters on empty plates. /Chinanews Photo

Some of Li’s creations include the Minions, Kung Fu Panda, Peppa Pig and Disney princess Elsa from Frozen. /Chinanews Photo

Li is not an artist. She’s a mother who is trying to cope with the universal challenge of feeding her three-year-old child who refuses to eat. /Chinanews Photo