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/
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.
Nothing suspicious about it
Bullshit.
Sauce?
Soy
I think the right question to ask is, Plate?
Soy. Weren’t you paying attention?
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.
It didn’t get enough love. What a fun combat system and creepy atmosphere.
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
(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
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.
I mean you can but etiquette and all lol
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!!
I never realized until now that those shrine structures look a lot like native north american “Inukshuks”.
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
Ooh, clever!
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
Interesting.
