I don’t usually think of food as a work of art. But when I was in Japan it seemed like all food was a work of art. Even the breakfast omelette would have looked good hanging on the wall. And the sushi!
Pressed sushi. 
Fruit sushi. 
A close-up of my sketch of this dish, plus notes on what I was eating.
Flying fish sushi platter – I just love the variety of pinky oranges contrasting with the variety of yellowy-greens. 
With this menu I didn’t know whether to eat it or paint it! So I tried to do both… 
Even the components of Japanese food are like art. Here’s a simple bowl of miso soup with squares of tofu next to a square of nori seaweed. This looks to me like a painting waiting to happen. 
As I made up some sushi I was wondering if I could add these seaweed squares to a mixed-media painting I was working on. What a wonderful texture, sheen, colour. But possibly too smelly? 
This shiso leaf has both an interesting taste and shape. I have put leaves on paintings, so this might work! 
Thanks to Sustainabilitea who just reminded me of the beauty of Japanese desserts. Here are a couple of them:
Oranges filled with orange agar jelly and mochi (tender pastry) filled with sweet red bean paste and strawberries
Maccha (Green Tea) & Chocolate Daifuku.
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mmm – and great photo for the theme. 🙂
I didn’t know whether to eat it or paint it!
Their desserts are works of art, too, especially the mochi and daifuku creations. Making myself hungry now!
janet
Yes, they had some whitish almond gelatine cut into triangles and served with an artistic (and tasty) version of fruit cocktail. So good!!!
Just added some mochi and jelly-filled oranges… Thanks for reminding me!
Yummy!
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There certainly a lot of art in this. Thanks for sharing man, now I know what to look forward if I will go to Japan..Will definitely carry my camera..:)
Most of the time the food is very good but occasionally we had things that we weren’t really sure about. It was always beautiful though, even if we didn’t know what it was!