Don’t You Love Chinese Food?
Look at all of that deliciousness! Ramen noodles, potstickers – even “tenshindon”, a rice omelette with crab topped with a thick sauce!
Oh, just one thing: THESE ARE ALL SWEET DESSERTS!
Cue The Secret Desserts!
While it may look like this young woman is digging into a platter of great chinese food, they are all sweets!
The terrific website SoraNews24.com shared this hilariously secret way to have your cake and eat it too – just pretend it’s something else!
There is a sweets shop in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district called “Maplise”, where the specialty of the house is a decadent dessert that looks like a hot bowl of noodles! Yes, THIS is a dessert!
This amazingly creative bakery has mastered the art of designing desserts to look like regular chinese food, so you can indulge without being discovered! Not only that, they serve the desserts to you in chinese food containers!
So much espionage!
However, the real spy games begin when you take your delicious desserts out!
“Salt Ramen” For Dessert!
Here is how SoraNews24 described what they ordered – the “salt ramen”:
“Even looking at them up close, they look like the real deal. They’ve recreated every detail, including a transparent soup for the noodles and the crunchy fried skin of the dumplings. The tenshindon was especially well done, from the looks of the egg, to the shininess of the sauce, and even the handful of green peas normally used as a garnish wasn’t forgotten.”
Imagine sitting at your desk, eating a bowl of ramen noodles like this…friends and co-workers stop by, glance over, and move on…but you know what you are biting into: CAKE!
More “Tenshindon” Please!
And remember that tenshindon, the rice omelette with crab topped with a thick sauce?
Well, an amazing thing happens as you take your fork and cut into it – this beautifully created dish is actually a CHOCOLATE CAKE:
Yep, a chocolate cake! And these realistic pot stickers are also…that’s right, dessert!
Pass The Soy Sauce, Please!
That’s right, they even have “soy sauce” for you to make the deception complete, but don’t worry about it spoiling your sweet tooth – it’s really maple syrup!
Now you know why I love Tokyo so much – so when I took my wife and son there, we had to go to the “fake food” district!
Yes, we were in a store filled with fake food – and of course, I had to buy a plasticized cheeseburger!
My son and wife got plastic food as well – now why do they make this? Only one way to find out, check out the reason here:
Plastic food is all the rage in Japan – to the point that the school girls are even WEARING IT!
Yes indeed, it’s wearable plastic food! See who is doing it and why by clicking here:
I also shared this photo of incredible sushi:
Well, except they are desserts as well!
See how they did it here!
And how about this?
It’s a roast – roasted Watermelon, that is!
See how they did it here:
And since we are getting silly, why not some bacon and egg jello?
See it here!
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those desserts are amazing, I never would have guessed –
They actually had “secret food” as a competition on The Great British Bakeoff”…they had to serve something baked to resemble something else…just goofy fun, right? Thanks as always for the comment!
Yes, I’m always amused by these type of things
Oh, very, very clever indeed – trust the imaginative Japanese. My question is WHY – to show how one can ‘fool’ the onlooker or lessen one’s own ‘guilt’ at the unhealthy ‘desires’ one may have 🙂 ? . . . And, why on earth wear ‘food’ on your head . . . in the ‘real’ world you would probably be locked up for having an unsound mind 🙂
I think it’s the art of manipulating ingredients to surprise the person eating them…it’s something a lot of show do now as a competition – making food that looks like something else…goofy fun – as for the “wearable food”? That’s just part of what makes Japan so wacky in the best way!
Am truly trying to understand – have been to ‘business’ Japan so many times ‘way back when’ but always just seen the super-polite and super-correct and super-serious side of the people where, more than once, I truly felt my behavioural patterns had been ‘unbecoming’ 🙂 ! ‘Wearable food’ . . . well, for quite a few reasons, not my kind of fun, but . . . horses etc . . .