As much as kawaii collectors love collecting cute items there is also a fascination with collecting cute items that have some relation with food. It is very common to find kawaii items that combine cute characters with food. Sweets such as cakes, cookies, chocolates and other kind of desserts are commonly used.

These are some stationery that portray how food is commonly used with the kawaii theme. Food can be turned into kawaii characters. Food can designed into kawaii characters. Most commonly, food is used as theme or background to accompany kawaii characters.

The onsen manju figures and usadango figures are an example of how food can be used or combined to form characters. Manjus and dangos are japanese sweet food items while “onsen” means hot spring and “usa” means rabbit.

I like making displays when I have free time and I put this together for a friend’s birthday. The miniature food pieces used in the display are dollhouse miniatures that came from different sets from Re-Ment and Megahouse. There are many people that collect these miniature items to use for displays and many of them do not have an interest in dolls or using them for dollhouses. Their interest is simply in making their own displays of tiny realistic items.

Re-Ment which stands for “Reform the Entertainment” is a company that makes many dollhouse miniature items. Most of their miniatures are food items and the company has been doing collaborations with famous characters such as Disney, Hello Kitty, and Rilakkuma. The company has also created tables, bakery display stands, paper fold-up props that can be used with their miniature pieces. The company is very creative with designing the pieces and it is hard for these displays to not catch the attention of someone walking by.

There also many people who are interested in making crafts related to food and the kawaii theme. This is a part of the hobby known as decoden where people make embellishments. They use a variety of clay, molds, stickers, cabochans and other acrylic pieces. The designs, colors, and pieces show a really good example of the relationship between food and kawaii culture.

The kawaii theme has been used in foods as shown in the picture. These kawaii bento boxes are really amazing. I would like to make one some day but I think it is very time consuming and complex. There are various shapers, molds, picks, partitions, stencils, and cookie cutters available for people to enhance or make food look cute. There are also special mini pancake pans and toasters that can make bear-shaped pancakes and character imprinted toasts.

The clipping features a Rilakkuma cookie-making class. There are cookie cutters that allow people to make these cute designed cookies. I tend to avoid baking because I never had much luck with it unlike cooking but I would be interested in making these cute cookies. I made bear cookies one time but they ended up becoming pregnant bear cookies. I mean literally the bear cookies looked pregnant (with just the tummies popping out). Since I messed up on the ingredients the cookies did not taste so good either but I think if the cookies tasted good they would be great to serve in baby showers.

There are many areas where kawaii culture can influence and food is a big part of it. Kawaii culture brings the creativity and imagination that can allow people to enjoy life in a colorful and fun way. The Modern Toilet Restaurant is an example of that. The restaurant has a toilet theme which gives customers a unique experience through drinks in urinal cups, toilet seats, meals served in toilet seats, and the other toilet designed features.

Do you find this tasty? (*¬*)