Japan: June 10-19, 2018. Food Displays
The food often can look too beautiful to eat. Our first experience in a restaurant left us wide-eyed as we struggled to just start eating. The moment we started to consume the meal, we knew the perfect image would be imbalanced.
Our first meal at a Japanese restaurant was in Tokyo, near our hotel. We removed our shoes and were ushered into a private booth with large cloth drapery covering the entrance. It felt very private and quiet; nice for the beginning of the extended celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary When our food arrived, we sat wide-eyed taking in the image before us.
At the Ryoken, a traditional Japanese hotel, we were fed breakfast. No less than 12 small dishes contained our meal, which always included protein (salmon one morning, fish cake another), lettuce salad, miso soup, rice, tofu,a vegetable such as eggplant or okra or carrot cut into stars or swirls or an elegant shape, and a tart pickled small plum or cherry or something sour with a pit. (That was a palate cleanser for the end of the meal, I read.)
Meals in restaurants are always fragrant, colorful, balanced and beautiful works of art visually.
Often the restaurants displayed plastic molded shapes that represented the food presented --
Our first meal at a Japanese restaurant was in Tokyo, near our hotel. We removed our shoes and were ushered into a private booth with large cloth drapery covering the entrance. It felt very private and quiet; nice for the beginning of the extended celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary When our food arrived, we sat wide-eyed taking in the image before us.
At the Ryoken, a traditional Japanese hotel, we were fed breakfast. No less than 12 small dishes contained our meal, which always included protein (salmon one morning, fish cake another), lettuce salad, miso soup, rice, tofu,a vegetable such as eggplant or okra or carrot cut into stars or swirls or an elegant shape, and a tart pickled small plum or cherry or something sour with a pit. (That was a palate cleanser for the end of the meal, I read.)
Meals in restaurants are always fragrant, colorful, balanced and beautiful works of art visually.
Often the restaurants displayed plastic molded shapes that represented the food presented --
And there's always the unidentified item from the sea on a stick or in a package.
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