A well known image of Japan is that of ‘copying everything’. Indeed, Japanese are masters in copying. They strive to make a copy as perfect as the original. Or even better. In a country where temples and houses frequently are demolished by climate, earthquakes, war and the real estate market, it is a very useful skill.
Something completely different is that as an immigrant you can often not read (or at least not yet) the menus in a restaurant. It is a perfect godsend that the ware offered is exhibited outside the restaurant. Real food (tabemono) has the imperfection of withering. And thus an improved copy is made in Japan. Which doesn’t wither. Really very clever. These models were originally made of wax. Nowadays plastic is used for it. The cakes above look so real that I could catch a lady touching it to check if it really wasn’t real.
Not only cakes, also lunch with bacon and eggs.
All variations of delicious noodle soup.
Vegetables, raw fish, you name it.
drink = nomimonoEven soft drinks with ice cubes and beer with a head. Undistinguishable from the real stuff.
And of course it looks even more real with a sheet of freshness foil over it. Even over the beer!
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