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My friend Tony McNicol recently wrote a really interesting article for ANA's inflight mag about his visit to Maiduru, the biggest plastic food display-making company in Japan. The fake food-making process is so intricate, apparently, that "chefs" use real kitchen knives to slice plastic meat and real curry powder to color the plastic curry. I had no idea!
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While some I've seen are better than others, it is truly an art form one has to see for themselves. Really incredible. Kyoto, I'll see you in two weeks!
Posted by: vagrant | October 21, 2008 at 10:32 AM
There's a great movie called Tokyo-ga, where Wim Wenders goes to a plastic food factory to watch them make it. He also goes to a pachinko parlour after hours to watch a man change all the pins to make the balls flow differently.
Posted by: Chizu | October 21, 2008 at 04:53 PM
Found a link to the movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbgju4HuJb8&feature=related
Plastic food is about 4 minutes in.
Posted by: Chizu | October 21, 2008 at 06:50 PM