Plastic food

Inside the World of Shokuhin Sampuru: The Japanese Art of Making Fake Food

July 31, 2023 By Amna Bibi

We all know that Japan is home to the most interesting, adorable and lovely inventions. You might have heard about the inventions like edible culinary spoons and forks made of potato starch and sometimes sugar, or about the genetically modified scentless garlic and even the grafted […]

Fake Food in Japan: The World’s Most Delicious Looking Plastic

September 7, 2019 By Rae DeFrane

If you have ever been to Japan, you might have seen plastic models of food in the windows of restaurants, displaying the edible counterparts that lay within. These are called ‘sampuru’ or ‘sample’ and have been part of the Japanese economy and food culture for nearly one hundred years…

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