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Fruit and vegetable garnishes have taken up space on our plate for decades. However, these edible carvings by Japanese artist, Gaku, shouldn’t be pushed aside, but rather stared at and admired for a few hours.
The intricate carvings, often geometrically-inspired, are done with a steady hand and X-acto blade. Check out more below and over at Instagram.
[link, via Spoon and Tamago]
In what could be the greatest thing since boring sliced bread without images inside, Japanese baker, RAN (@konel_bread), creates loaves of surprise bread.
Contained in every slice are cute characters, animal patterns, or whatever this creative baker can stuff in there with colored doughs. See more below and over at Instagram.
[link, via designtaxi]
No matter if you’re Team Cap or Team Iron Man, you’d probably want to eat both of these adorable rice balls.
Created by food artist, Peaceloving Pax, Captain America and Iron Man onigiri is only a small part of her awesome rice art. Check out more here.
[link, via That’s Nerdalicious]
Zen gardens are supposed to help offer inner peace… Not induce a sugar high. However, this creative take on a zen rock garden attempts to do both.
The Shinan-ji Temple Rock Garden, created by designers Tomonori Saito and Shohei Sawada, uses Japanese candies with black sesame seeds to resemble rocks, resting on a bed of sugar that resembles sand. Now, that’s a moment of zen we can sink out teeth into.
[via Colossal]
A Japanese chef, Hironori Ikeno, creates minuscule pieces of sushi using very small cuts of fish and one grain of rice.
What started as a joke, quickly turned into a challenge of how small Ikeno could make his pieces of raw fish and rice. Now the joke is watching customers pay actual money for the microscopic pieces of octopus, tamago, and otoro. Please watch the video below…
[via First We Feast and Grub Street]