Fake Food

After Asakusa, I went to Kappabashi which is the restaurant supply district. Stacks and stacks of wooden and ceramic tableware, staff uniforms, equipment and even shops that sell the ubiquitious fake food. It's crazy expensive - the things in this pic started at $40 and went up from there. Roreo, I was gonna get you a fake oreo but it was $15.

In any other place it would be beyond tacky to have plastic food samples at a restaurant. Can you imagine Spotted Pig with bowls of plastic sheepsmilk gnudi??? But when you don't speak a word of Japanese, you are willing to overlook certain things. I have a love/hate relationship with this stuff.