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Interesting ceramic dish, in which "Itsukushima" Shinto Shrine art appears, when filled with soy sauce. (media.piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago by JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social to c/foodporn@lemmy.world

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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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[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

I got this one and a couple others like it in Tokyo.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I like this one better.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Because tuxedo cats are the best!

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I’m obligated to point out that torties are in fact better.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Absolutely. They're also the best. So are oranges, who are also the best.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

So it really just works with nothing but soy sauce..?

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

Yes. I'm not sure why this is hard to understand. The deeper areas are darker because they hold more sauce.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 7 points 1 week ago

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Deeper areas are darker? Oh yeah, then explain why a flat swimming pool has dark patterns on the bottom! Checkmate, translucency believers. /s

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

A flat swimming pool wouldn't hold any water, you're thinking of a parking lot

[-] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago

Instructions unclear, parking lot is now full of soy sauce

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

How can you tell? Did a shrine or cat appear?

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It would work with piss too

[-] Amelia42@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

My personal response is because I'm responding that I responded a response.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social -4 points 1 week ago

I’m not sure why this is hard to understand. The deeper areas are darker because they hold more sauce.

Sorry, didn't realise that it called for a major genius to get involved.

Unfortunately, most of the tieewarbgjkas ukhasdf sadfjk jksafsdf

[-] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

... Are... Are you okay, Johnny?

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

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. 🙃

[-] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

🤣 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.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

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...

[-] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Agreed. I am the guy making inappropriate jokes in the receiving line of someone's wake. Laugh or cry, baby... When those are the options, I'll always choose to laugh.

[-] Pupschism@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Can you recommend which is tastiest?

[-] Pupschism@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Unburnt kikkoman

[-] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

Nothing suspicious about it, dark but not fully opaque fluids like soy sauce start out light but get darker as it gets deeper

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Nothing suspicious about it

Bullshit.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago

Sauce?

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

https://ghostwiretokyo.fandom.com/wiki/GhostWire:_Tokyo

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social -1 points 1 week ago

Like water, I guess?

Looks so clear and 'pure,' but then when you fill the pool up..?

[-] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Exactly so, except that soy sauce needs a lot less to show the effect!

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] null@lemmy.org 4 points 1 week ago

Now clean it.

[-] Snowcano@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

That is cool as fuck.

[-] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

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)

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

“Bring me a pitcher of your finest soy sauce my good man”

[-] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

(killer avatar, btw)

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

you could basically ask for and receive whatever type of dish to fulfill your heart’s content

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

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I bet with an absorbent food like rice balls you could pick up most of the sauce.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Just tip it up like the milk in your cereal bowl.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I mean you can but etiquette and all lol

GAIJIN-SMASH! :D

[-] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah I can get behind this!! 😂

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

I think we tend to use too much soy sauce anyway so this might be a sneaky way to make you use less?

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