Shokuhin Sanpuru

The Japanese love images, and like to see what they are going to eat before taking a table.

Restaurants offering standard menus pay high prices for ready-made fake dishes. Because everything is painstakingly made by hand, these don’t come cheap.

Today, restaurants tend to change their menus frequently and create innovative dishes, so they need custom-made fake dishes that are faithful to the original. As these are even more expensive, fake food is often replaced by photographs these days.