Not dumplings made out of penguins; dumplings that look like penguins! Wendy ate these cute penguin dumplings at Super Star Restaurant in Hong Kong.
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I don't know what the lyrics of this Japanese song mean, but watching a bunch of people prance around in super happy sushi costumes is captivating enough on its own. Whether or not watching this video will increase sushi consumption is yet to be determined.
Watch the video, after the jump.
These clever Mother's Day tattoo cookies [Warning: Music player auto-plays loudly] are the perfect gift for a mom who rocks, though they might be a little hard to make without some edible pens such as Wilton's FoodWriter markers.
Still, it's less of an investment than a real tattoo, and chances are your mom would prefer the cookies. [via craftzine.com]
If your cooking lid doesn't have a pig face on it, it's too boring. Get a pig cooking lid from the MoMA Store's collection of Japanese products, available for a limited time. The steam comes up through the pig's nostrils! That's awesome!
Even if you don't use it as a cooking lid, it would make an interesting centerpiece on a table. I'd call it, "Melting Pig Head."
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"White and tender surround the center / Cozy, sitting in the crackling shell."
What are those high-pitched voices singing about? Eggs! Eggs! So many eggs! Smiling eggs! Ninja eggs! Strawberry eggs! Dear god, this song is now permanently stuck in my head!
If you didn't love eggs before, you will after watching this video. Because you won't have a choice. The voices continue to screech, "I love egg!" in your brain long after the video is over.
Experience the hypnotizing power of singing, animated eggs, after the jump.
I didn't know I wanted a cuddle-able teacup until I saw this adorable plush teacup made by Teresa at Sewing Stars. It may not be useful (although I think the property of "making me smile" is useful enough), but I still want it. Badly. I also like her tired, somewhat unhappy-looking coffee mugs; it's just like real-life!
Buy Teresa's crafty goods at Sewing Stars before your favorite item sells out! (Looking at it now, the teacups are gone, but there are some coffee mugs left.) [via Craftzine]
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When Amanda showed her Horlicks cookies to her friends and family, no one could agree on what animal they actually looked like. Piggies? Bears? Mice? I think they look most like dogs, as the title of the recipe says. [via TasteSpotting]
I've seen my fair share of cute cupcakes, but not ones that look like bags of caramel popcorn. These cupcakes come from Little Cakes from The Whimsical Bakehouse by Liv Hansen and Kaye Hansen. To read the recipe and an interview with the bakers, head over to Cupcakes Take The Cake.
Heartstick Ojaru, a co-op of nine women in Chiba, Japan, have been selling these cute heart- and star-shaped cucumbers in grocery stores in Tokyo. Plastic molds affixed to the stem shapes the cucumbers into the shapes when sliced cross-wise. The arrangement possibilities, as you can see, are endless. [via Trends in Japan]
I was immediately drawn to these adorable pig-shaped breads that Medena of Cafe Chocolada made for her kids. But why should kids get all the cute food? Adults deserve rotund peppercorn-eyed, animal-shaped baked goods too! [via TasteSpotting]
If you're the type to chow down your breakfast while checking email, complement your morning ritual with the Egg Mouse Cushion Set, with the sausage and egg serving as your wrist rest and the plate as your mousepad. The set can be found for sale on Dongascience.com, a South Korean website, for about $18. [via Gizmodo]
They're hot dogs! Their octopi! They're...octodogs? Biggie of bento idea blog, Lunch in a Box, shows that deep frying octopus-shaped hot dogs comes out with more attractive results compared to boiling the hot dogs. Try them out for your next bento box!
Previously: Tutorials on how to make cute shapes with hot dogs.
Maki at Just Bento shows how you can have fun with Japanese egg molds, my favorite mold being this overly adorable bunny head. Cooking and peeling perfect hardboiled eggs takes some effort, but if you want cute, blemish-free food, you have to put in some elbow grease.
A caterpillar and his son just want to eat best tea leaves at the top of the plant. Is that too much to ask for?
Yes. But at least they give it a good shot. Watch the drama unfold, after the jump.
Is Pacman made out of cheese? John Watson proposes such a possibility.
If all hedgehogs look this cute while eating, witnessing an an army of them eating hedgehog treats at the same time could result in death by onslaught of cuteness. With my brain frozen in a permanent state of "aw," I could barely move while watching this guy chomp on his orange nubbin for 41 seconds.
Stare at the hedgehog after the jump. Don't miss the tongue flicking action at the end. [via Cute Overload]
Artist Dan Goodsell has recently put up a few cute Valentine's Day-themed illustrations in his Flickr. I especially like the one with Shaky Bacon. Because everything is better with bacon.
Previously: Dan Goodsell's "We Like Pie" illustration.
I didn't think hello naomi's cupcakes could get any cooler, but then she churns out these interchangable robot cupcakes and I know it probably won't get any better than that. We may have reached the pinnacle of cute and geeky cupcake art. [via Geekadelphia and Neatorama]
Previously: Super Mario Cupcakes and Sweet Cupcakes by hello naomi.
Nothing says "complete dinner" like eating a fat stack of pancakes nearly as tall as yourself. Go ahead, Little Bear...drown yourself in fluffy pancake happiness.
Everyone likes pie. Even bacon!
Check out more of Dan Goodsell's art at The World of Mr. Toast. You can even buy your own huggable, nubbin-armed plush toast, egg or bacon dolls.
Terrifying or adorable? Angie Naron's googly-eyed breakfast conjures up many conflicting emotions. "Oo, it looks delicious! ...Wait, they're all staring at me. Perhaps I will skip breakfast today." [via Cute Overload]
Turn your mashed potatoes into a starchy beard and broccoli florets into a green cruciferous mane of hair with Jamie Wieck's "(Don't) Play With Your Food" embossed plates. As you eat more, a smile is revealed. If these were actually sold in stores, I'd be compelled to replace all my plates with them right now. [via pixelsumo]
To celebrate the end of the week, I present you with this fluffy bunny munching on a lettuce leaf.
Commence heart melt-age.
PingMag rounds up popular characters on Japanese produce packages. Squash, mushrooms, cabbage, eggplant, oranges, and more are all graced by aww-inducing cartoon likenesses of themselves, sometimes clothed, sometimes sporting stylish hairdos, and mostly smiling.
Marisa Reisel must have pretty nimble fingers. Her sashimi platter earrings would fit on Thumbelina's dinner table. Or inside Barbie's fridge. Her food-centric jewelry pendants, part of her Whole Slice Jewelry business, are no bigger than a cashew or quarter, but that doesn't quench the creative factor. California-like sushi rolls, meant for a chain necklace, are served on a "wooden" slab with pickled ginger and a wasabi scoop.
The recent Princeton grad now works and paints in San Francisco, crafting these fun miniatures on the side. She just unveiled the project's website, sure to make anyone smile. An eclectic jewelry menu ranges from taqueria (taco and hot sauce earrings) to grocery produce section (store-bought veggie platter with carrot section missing) to Popeyes drive-thru (drumsticks and biscuits).
Reisel gladly takes personal requests. Most iconic pairs are already accounted for (cookies and milk, mac and cheese, burger and fries) but let's throw out some suggestions. Mozzarella and basil earrings? A dill pickle charm? Support her adorable cause by ordering her inedible take-out.
You may not be able to eat these apples made by Sewing Stars (they wouldn't taste very good, at least), but you can keep them on your desk forever and oogle at their collective cuteness without the risk of them turning into piles of rotting flesh.
If you're sick of innocent-looking cute things only being able to act innocently and cutely, read the slightly twisted comic Kawaii Not by Meghan Murphy's (kawaii is Japanese for "cute"). In it, carrots threaten to blind you, marshmallows get impaled, and cookies hemorrhage chocolate chips. All while smiling, of course.
Check out her animated icons and online shop at kawaiinot.com.
My friend John told me the other day that his son was at the stage where he was only willing to eat if John pretended the spoon was a plane or train en route to his little mouth. I sent him a link this morning to Babyplane, a spoon with a little plastic plane built around it, and he wrote back to call it a scientific breakthrough, saying, "You could actually TRIPLE the amount of food that gets into a toddler with that spoon." $15 at Pylones, in blue or pink.
Amigurumi is "the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures," and Etsy seller happypancake is a devoted practitioner, as you can probably tell from her super cute Happy Happy Ice Cream Cone. $7 will buy you a cone in your choice of flavor, but if you're not into ice cream perhaps one of her other crocheted wares will catch your eye? Her Cherries and 3 Peas in a Pod are $5 each and painfully cute, but oh my heart belongs to Mr Nanner, the crocheted banana!
If I didn't tell you these colorful, beautiful bags were meant to carry your groceries, would you ever think it? Designed in Australia (and made in China), the Envirosax are meant to replace the 500 or so plastic bags that each one of us uses once and then throws away every year. $33 for a set of five bags, each of which is lightweight but strong enough to carry the contents of two supermarket shopping bags, and they roll up into a pouch you can keep in your glove compartment. I buy groceries in small amounts but frequently, like a good New Yorker, so maybe I'll buy a set, keep two bags rolled up in the bottom of my bag and make presents of the three left. They're awfully pretty and I can't imagine my friends wouldn't appreciate them.
They're currently on pre-order at Delight.com, as their first shipment sold out in under two hours, but they expect to have them back in stock at the end of May; use the code "Shelterrific" at check-out and you get 20% off. Alternately you can buy the bags straight from Envirosax, they've got a lovely black-and-white set that I really like too, but shipping from Australia can be pricey and takes two weeks to get to you; they do list brick and mortar retailers of their products in the States. [via not martha]
Okay, so my friends have to start having babies right NOW, so I can get them this adorable bib with jars of peanut butter and grape jelly in love with each other. $8 from Etsy seller hannabear, printed by CafePress.
(It's so super cute I almost wish it came in adult sizes! Hey, stop looking at me like that—eating lobster is messy!)
I had never wanted a chair so badly in my life until I set my eyes on these Japanese cushion chairs shaped like giant food, obviously the work of a creative genius, or someone who was really hungry, or a really hungry creative genius. Although La-Z-Boy might disagree, nothing screams comfort like having your bum coddled by a monstrous plush slice of bread, melon pan, or hamburger. Can anyone in Japan send me one of these babies? [via Tokyo Times]
I think these breakfast food pillows are adorable (if a little pricey) but I don't know if I can wholeheartedly support a brand with a tagline as heretical as "more fun than the real thing". I'm sorry, but no matter how cute the pillow, the equation will always be fake fried egg < real fried egg. It's what you can actually get in your belly that counts!
[via roboppy del.icio.us]
"Isn’t it wonderful to live in a country where drunken panda-seals lounge on peanut snack packages sniffing beer? Well, not all Japanese packaging is that weird, but see for yourself. Here is PingMag’s Best of Snack Characters. Enjoy!"
I can't decide whether this mushroom kitchen timer is so cute it's hideous or so hideous it's cute, so I'm just going to say that it's 3"x3.5", from Japan (if you hadn't already guessed), $12 at Fred Flare, and you should buy it if it makes you happy.
[via Apartment Therapy]
Fred Flare's got this adorable little cookie sandwich pouch for $12, just the thing for you or someone you love (hint, hint) to keep makeup or snacks in, and so cute you'll be tempted to eat it despite the whole felt not being edible thing.
Looking at Flickr's bento boxes group, with its thousands upon thousands of photos of neatly arranged, self-packed and often incredibly cute lunches, has got to be one of my favorite ways to start the week. Even the dreariest Monday is somehow easier to face when you know there are people in the world making crabs out of hotdogs and Ms Pacman out of egg and seaweed.
(The Totoro dust mote-shaped onigiri in the photo at right almost make me wish I had to go into an office every day, just so I'd have an excuse to make them!)
Brooklyn guy-girl two-piece Matt and Kim take playing with their food to new extremes in this cute music video. Stay tuned for the last 30 seconds or so.
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