Looks Good Enough to Eat

by Marc on May 6, 2009

I’ve already mentioned how hard it was to decipher the menus in Tokyo. Luckily, many restaurants here have picture menus, so I can do my caveman “point & grunt” thing.

A lot of restaurants have taken this a step further, displaying elaborate plastic replicas of their food. One day we went down “restaurant street” near Asakusa, where you can buy everything you need for a restaurant, including the fake food.

PlasticFoodStoreWS

PlasticSushiShelf

At one store we found the shelves full of incredibly detailed and appetizing food replicas. The sushi looked especially tasty,

PlasticSushi

as did the desserts,

PlasticParfait

and the frosty (looking) beers!

PlasticBudCan

PlasticDraftBeer

Soon we had to go find some real food, this place made us hungry!

{ 2 comments }

May 7, 2009 DAD

Why would I want to eat fake food ?? just kidding of course although it might taste better than some of the real stuff . A good idea though placing a food order!! veeerry clever these Japaneeeese!!!

May 9, 2009 Eva Rees

I’ve always wondered where all the fake food comes from!

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