Interesting ceramic dish, in which "Itsukushima" Shinto Shrine art appears, when filled with soy sauce.
This has been featured around the Innernet recently, so why not here? Personally, my biggest skepticism is that I suspect it actually needs a mix of dark soy sauce and a much lighter sauce that floats on top?
I dunno though, maybe the 'trenches' are so deep that it works with simple soy sauce? Pretty dang clever, either way.
In the spirit of Starship Troopers, if you'd like to know more:
https://www.boredpanda.com/dishes-sauce-images-appear-3d-print-japanese-redestu/
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I got this one and a couple others like it in Tokyo.
I like this one better.
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I’m obligated to point out that torties are in fact better.
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Black cats also the best.
So it really just works with nothing but soy sauce..?
Yes. I'm not sure why this is hard to understand. The deeper areas are darker because they hold more sauce.
Sorry. Didn't realize I had to be a major genius. /s
Deeper areas are darker? Oh yeah, then explain why a flat swimming pool has dark patterns on the bottom! Checkmate, translucency believers. /s
A flat swimming pool wouldn't hold any water, you're thinking of a parking lot
Instructions unclear, parking lot is now full of soy sauce
How can you tell? Did a shrine or cat appear?
Or a shrine to a cat?
It would work with piss too
My personal skepticism is because I am now skeptical that any image that seems too good to be true is AI generated. And the sauce lines look almost artificially clean and complex with the shrine.
Like the shrine's reflection off of the lake, getting progressively lighter towards the bottom of the plate too? Impressive.
My personal response is because I'm responding that I responded a response.
Sorry, didn't realise that it called for a major genius to get involved.
Unfortunately, most of the tieewarbgjkas ukhasdf sadfjk jksafsdf
... Are... Are you okay, Johnny?
I had a couple last night, lol.
My point being that visually, the trenches didn't seem quite deep enough to create that effect. Which might be perfectly wrong, of course. But I also found such debate a bit tiresome at that point in time, in which "tieewarbgjkas ukhasdf sadfjk jksafsdf" seemed like the way to proceed. 🙃
🤣 I get it. I can't say I disagree with the approach. I just wanted to make sure we didn't need to send a mobile stroke unit or something.
That or cardiovascular event of choice is indeed likely how I'll go. (super-high genetic cholesterol / triglycerides)
I guess it was fun for a moment to fake-act it out. Sometimes black humor is what gets one through certain moments of life...
Soy sauce would work like an ink. Here's a picture of watercolour inks, each column is one ink, with each row representing how much ink is soaked in.
Can you recommend which is tastiest?
Unburnt kikkoman
Yeap, as someone who's done his share of watercolor art, I do grasp the concept. Any doubts I had were related to a level of skepticism about the depths of the trenches.
Oh I so want these!
Nothing suspicious about it, dark but not fully opaque fluids like soy sauce start out light but get darker as it gets deeper
Like water, I guess?
Looks so clear and 'pure,' but then when you fill the pool up..?
Exactly so, except that soy sauce needs a lot less to show the effect!
GOOD point.
Bullshit.
Sauce?
Soy
I think the right question to ask is, Plate?
Soy. Weren't you paying attention?
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It didn't get enough love. What a fun combat system and creepy atmosphere.
Not soy.
That's the funny part about all the "soy" replies to me. There's so many sauces this could work with, so in what universe would the Soy part be something I'm confused about? The gate and flowers in the comment I replied to are obviously NOT soy.
I got these (and the chopstick holders) as a wedding gift from a friend in Japan, we either used kikoman low sodium or the soy sauce that was included with the sushi
The top one is boss. Makes me wish there were Nazca-line versions, which culturally makes no sense(!)
That origami crane holder is also pretty cool...
Now clean it.
I have 2 of these, one with a cat and the other with a fish. They wash off super easy. It’s just soy sauce.
I just wanted to write that it must be hard to wash.
That is cool as fuck.
Gorgeous as a piece of art, mildly infuriating to be served this in a restaraunt... I want to dip in the sauce and be able to get to it.
I mean... you still can?
Also, this would be some high-end place no doubt, so you could basically ask for and receive whatever type of dish to fulfill your heart's content, I should think.
(killer avatar, btw)
“Bring me a pitcher of your finest soy sauce my good man”
"Tell you hwat-- bring me a pig on a stick, and fry 'em up good!"
"And bring the lady something for a dollar-and-a-half!"
The Love God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN-SJ71VAJ4
Thanks! Self-killer to be precise. It's an interesting read leading up to that work: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-final-shocking-self-portrait-of-richard-gerstl
For sure, I just hate the waste. You can never get to the dip inside the grooves and if you're in a nice place you're not pouring out of it onto your dish... I mean you can but etiquette and all lol
I bet with an absorbent food like rice balls you could pick up most of the sauce.
Just tip it up like the milk in your cereal bowl.
GAIJIN-SMASH! :D
Hell yeah I can get behind this!! 😂
I think we tend to use too much soy sauce anyway so this might be a sneaky way to make you use less?
If the itamae didn't want me submerging my nigiri in soy sauce, he would have made it more buoyant.
Idk this helps prevent people from overdoing the amount of soy sauce. I can just dip the sushi on there and know it won't be too much
Wow that's a smart design!
This is so neeeat!!
Also, I'd recommend tamari instead. I don't think it's as traditional for sushi, but it's less salty and richer. It seems less likely to overpower the fish rather than complement it.
Ponzu ftw
I never realized until now that those shrine structures look a lot like native north american "Inukshuks".
I'm afraid I need to know where to purchase these in the UK. It's a matter of vital cational security, erm I mean national security obviously.
This might help get the search kicked off, anyway:
https://www.amazon.com/Relief-Seasoning-Shrine-Dipping-Porcelains/dp/B091S5VVFW
Ooh, clever!
Interesting.