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/

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 think we tend to use too much soy sauce anyway so this might be a sneaky way to make you use less?

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)

Nothing suspicious about it, dark but not fully opaque fluids like soy sauce start out light but get darker as it gets deeper

“Bring me a pitcher of your finest soy sauce my good man”

(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 mean you can but etiquette and all lol

GAIJIN-SMASH! :D

Hell yeah I can get behind this!! 😂

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!

"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

GOOD point.

I got this one and a couple others like it in Tokyo.

I bet with an absorbent food like rice balls you could pick up most of the sauce.

So it really just works with nothing but soy sauce..?

If the itamae didn't want me submerging my nigiri in soy sauce, he would have made it more buoyant.

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.

Interesting.

I like this one better.

Yes. I'm not sure why this is hard to understand. The deeper areas are darker because they hold more sauce.

Because tuxedo cats are the best!

That is cool as fuck.

I’m not sure why this is hard to understand. The deeper areas are darker because they hold more sauce.

Sorry, didn't realise that it called for a major genius to get involved.

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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.

My personal response is because I'm responding that I responded a response.

Sorry. Didn't realize I had to be a major genius. /s

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.

Now clean it.

Ponzu ftw

Nothing suspicious about it

Bullshit.

Deeper areas are darker? Oh yeah, then explain why a flat swimming pool has dark patterns on the bottom! Checkmate, translucency believers. /s

I’m obligated to point out that torties are in fact better.

Can you recommend which is tastiest?

Just tip it up like the milk in your cereal bowl.

I just wanted to write that it must be hard to wash.

Unburnt kikkoman

A flat swimming pool wouldn't hold any water, you're thinking of a parking lot

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

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.

Instructions unclear, parking lot is now full of soy sauce

Absolutely. They're also the best. So are oranges, who are also the best.

How can you tell? Did a shrine or cat appear?

... Are... Are you okay, Johnny?

Sauce?

Or a shrine to a cat?

Soy. Weren't you paying attention?

Soy

This is so neeeat!!