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/
74 Comments
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 105 pts · 131d
I got this one and a couple others like it in Tokyo.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 131d
I like this one better.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 131d
Because tuxedo cats are the best!
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 131d
I’m obligated to point out that torties are in fact better.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 131d
Absolutely. They're also the best. So are oranges, who are also the best.
GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 129d
Here to represent the Black Cats Best Cats gang.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 129d
Black cats also the best.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 6 pts · 131d
So it really just works with nothing but soy sauce..?
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 58 pts · 131d
Yes. I'm not sure why this is hard to understand. The deeper areas are darker because they hold more sauce.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 33 pts · 131d
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 131d
Sorry. Didn't realize I had to be a major genius. /s
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 131d
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 · 10 pts · 131d
A flat swimming pool wouldn't hold any water, you're thinking of a parking lot
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz · 15 pts · 131d
Instructions unclear, parking lot is now full of soy sauce
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 131d
How can you tell? Did a shrine or cat appear?
SourGumGum@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 131d
Or a shrine to a cat?
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 131d
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 130d
It would work with piss too
Amelia42@piefed.blahaj.zone · -6 pts · 131d
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 · 5 pts · 131d
My personal response is because I'm responding that I responded a response.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · -9 pts · 131d
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 · 14 pts · 131d
... Are... Are you okay, Johnny?
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 3 pts · 130d
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 · 5 pts · 130d
🤣 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 · 1 pts · 130d
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...
Pupschism@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 131d
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 · 8 pts · 131d
Can you recommend which is tastiest?
Pupschism@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 131d
Unburnt kikkoman
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 130d
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.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 129d
Oh I so want these!
NightFantom@slrpnk.net · 56 pts · 131d
Nothing suspicious about it, dark but not fully opaque fluids like soy sauce start out light but get darker as it gets deeper
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 8 pts · 131d
Like water, I guess?
Looks so clear and 'pure,' but then when you fill the pool up..?
NightFantom@slrpnk.net · 19 pts · 131d
Exactly so, except that soy sauce needs a lot less to show the effect!
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 3 pts · 131d
GOOD point.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 131d
Bullshit.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 131d
Sauce?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 131d
Soy
MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 129d
I think the right question to ask is, Plate?
urandom@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 131d
Soy. Weren't you paying attention?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 129d
Not soy.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 129d
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.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 130d
https://ghostwiretokyo.fandom.com/wiki/GhostWire:_Tokyo
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 130d
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 130d
It didn't get enough love. What a fun combat system and creepy atmosphere.
criticon@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 131d
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
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 130d
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...
null@lemmy.org · 16 pts · 131d
Now clean it.
Snowcano@startrek.website · 16 pts · 131d
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.
33550336@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 131d
I just wanted to write that it must be hard to wash.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 131d
That is cool as fuck.
lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 131d
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 · 19 pts · 131d
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 · 13 pts · 131d
“Bring me a pitcher of your finest soy sauce my good man”
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 5 pts · 131d
"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
lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 131d
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
yakko@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 131d
I bet with an absorbent food like rice balls you could pick up most of the sauce.
lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 131d
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 131d
Just tip it up like the milk in your cereal bowl.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 5 pts · 131d
GAIJIN-SMASH! :D
lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 131d
Hell yeah I can get behind this!! 😂
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 5 pts · 131d
I think we tend to use too much soy sauce anyway so this might be a sneaky way to make you use less?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 131d
If the itamae didn't want me submerging my nigiri in soy sauce, he would have made it more buoyant.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 130d
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
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 131d
Allero@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 131d
Wow that's a smart design!
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 4 pts · 131d
This is so neeeat!!
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 131d
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.
Steve@startrek.website · 3 pts · 131d
Ponzu ftw
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 131d
I never realized until now that those shrine structures look a lot like native north american "Inukshuks".
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 129d
Ooh, clever!
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
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.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 129d
This might help get the search kicked off, anyway:
https://www.amazon.com/Relief-Seasoning-Shrine-Dipping-Porcelains/dp/B091S5VVFW
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 131d
Interesting.