Artificial food in Japan
Restaurants in Japan show plastic replica's of their offers to the passersby. The plastic food in the window looks very realistic and it has no consume-before-date. Potential customers see what they get. The plastic food fits in the Japanese food/drink vending machine business.
Enjoy your meal!
Plastic food in a restaurant window in Tokyo
Pancakes with ice-cream in a shopwindow in Tokyo.
Plastic sushi in a shushi restaurant window in Kyoto
These plastic sushis look awful realistic.
Plastic sushi really looking ready to eat.
Complete menu in a restaurant window in Kyoto.
Make your choice: your know what you get. Even the ingredients shown look fresh.
Window of a restaurant in Kyoto showing the whole menu.
This plastic one looks weird to me. I tried it elsewhere in Japan and it tasted good.
Even on the Nishi fish-market in Sapporo the offers of fresh fish are artificial.
In the Ainu-musuem in Bitari Onsen the Ainu food is presented in plastic.
Vending-machines for beverages can be found all over Japan.
Vending-machines with cold or warm drinks
Apart from the artificial food, the waiters and waitresses in some restaurants are replaced by artificial (robot) waiters.
