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I joined a food sample workshop last weekend. The name of the food sample company is Morino Sample in Hirano Ward, Osaka.
Mold is made from silicon. Was used to be used to make a mold but not any more.
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Food sample display is commonly seen at restaurants in Japan. It may take ten minutes in foreign countries to choose a dish and make an order but here it may take only a couple of minutes thanks to food sample display. The presentation is so real that it's appetizing.
They can just point out what looks delicious for them to the restaurant staff with their fingers.
Food display originated in Japan about 80 years ago and is seen only in Japan, Korea and China
It hasn't spread to other countries yet. I suppose the custom of using food sample display is closely related to our visually-oriented character.
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The staff at the workshop give us a white plain cake and we put fruit pieces, chocolate, ice cream on the cake. All of them may look like real but they are plastic food displays.
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I put kiwi pieces, pineapple, oranges, strawberries on ice cream but I put too much fruits so they looked overloaded.
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| (Putting varnish on my cakeIt's a piece of cake!) |
Pink ice cream in the center, apple, kiwi fruit on side...It's so much fun!
After topping chocolate on my parfait, I applied a coat of varnish to finish this. They sold various kinds of food straps including sushi, tempura, noodles. Just seeing them made me hungry but all of them were so cute!
Morino Food holds workshops every weekends. It takes about two hours to make a cake or parfait. Hopefully this custom of presenting food samples will spread to the other side of the world.
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