Kitchen Tools, Candy, and More from Japan
François-Xavier of FX Cuisine shows some of the "culinary artifacts" he recently got from Japan, including the scissor-like doohickey above. What is it used for? See the answer after the jump.
Photograph from longhorndave on Flickr
It's a pair of scissors used to cut the tops off itty-bitty quail eggs.
FX's other finds include a wasabi grater made from wood and shark skin, mock bento boxes filled with candies made to look like food, and a fake lettuce leaf (to "make you guys believe that I'll eat my steak with salad").
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3 Comments:
[insert circumcision joke here]
Bergamot at 3:11PM on 03/27/09
Leave it to the Japanese to invent something that is practical (if you eat quail eggs) but also conjures up sexual images (and not pretty ones).
arm1970 at 6:48AM on 03/28/09
@Bergamot, I'll thank you not to refer to my penis in such a way! :P
shoneyjoe at 8:55AM on 03/28/09