Japan's restaurant industry devised a unique way to surpass language barriers with their menus. In doing so, they also ...

We never thought much about how shokuhin sampuru — the Japanese name — were ... In years past, the food models were primarily made from wax, but since the 1980s, it is more common to use ...

Hyper-realistic food replicas are changing the way tourists experience Japanese ... these food models are called “sampuru” (translating to sample) and are made of wax, resin, or plastic ...