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dish will actually look like, No worries. Japanese restaurants
a real sample of “Today's Dish” outside and throwing it away
mottainai spirit. Restaurants once had the habit of showing
3 Food samples are said to have started from the Japanese
2 This unique Japanese custom is attracting the attention of
people from overseas. They seem both puzzled and delighted
have taken away the anxiety, and often the disappointment, by
with skill and craftsmanship, down to each grain of rice. It
to see these realistic, colorful duplications, which are created
speaking tourists, Visitors can just look at the plastic food
also makes the ordering process easy for the non-Japanese-
samples displayed in the showcase at the entrance to choose
the
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Creating shokuhin sampuru
food samples.
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speaking tourists. Visitors can
just look at the plastic food
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which dish to order.
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a real sample of "Today's Dish" outside and throwing it away
atter closing. Then in the early Showa period, plastic TOod
samples were first invented. Now, foreign tourists are even
purchasing sampuru to bring home as a souvenir. This custom
may soon spread to other countries as an amusing, charming
part of Japanese food culture.(178 words)
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