Shokuhin-sanpuru

The wrong food can take elaborate forms

Shokuhin Sanpuru ( Japanese 食品 サ ン プ ル , Shokuhin sanpuru , German "food example ") is the Japanese name for imitation dishes made of plastic or wax. These food imitations are on display at almost all Japanese restaurants and thus enable customers to visually assess the food on offer before entering. The practice dates back to 1917, and was primarily created to explain the strange and new food from Europe and America to customers at the time.

literature

• Rupert Cox: Hungry visions: the material life of Japanese food samples . in: ders. (Ed.): The Culture of Copying in Japan: Critical and Historical Perspectives Routledge, 2007 ISBN 0-415-30752-X pp. 257-269
• Nordico Museum of the City of Linz: Artificial food. Japanese food, the aesthetic pleasure . ISBN 3-85484-075-6

Web links

Commons : Shokuhin Sanpuru  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Fake Food Japan Online Store
• Fake Plastic Food: Inside Japan's Fake Food Factories
• Delicious vinyl
• Back to the plastic food factory
• Welcome to the wonder of Japanese plastic food samples (PDF file; 1.69 MB)
• Bill Cravis: Food of the Gods (PDF file; 252 kB)
• NY Times: It looks good enough to eat