It Happens Every So Often,

you look at a menu, order the food and the dish arrives,

looking nothing like what you had in mind, in Japan this is not likely to happen, as in the window displays of many restaurants there are faithful recreations of the dishes served made in plastic, known as Sampuru the makers often go above and beyond to make their products as realistic as possible, and some do really look good enough to eat, plastic foods are so popular in Japan that some people have actually started collecting as you can see from the above photograph from the Guinness Records of Records,

and collector Akiko Obata has taken collecting them to the extreme, she has been fascinated by plastic food ever since she was a child, and 10 years ago she started collecting all sorts of plastic food items, amassing a collection of over 8,000 individual pieces, in 2015 she had already bagged the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of prepared food related items, Obata, who lives near Narita Airport, in Chiba Prefecture has a soft spot for plastic desserts, but her impressive collection features all kinds of dishes, from several styles of burgers and pizzas, to spaghetti complete with suspended forks, and traditional Japanese foods like sushi, “Replicas are not real food, but I truly respect how each of them are made to look so real,” the collector told Design Made in Japan, Obata has a whole room in her home dedicated to her record-setting plastic food collection, and claims that it took Guinness representatives an entire day to go through all her 8,083 items, what an amazing collection.