DesignPocket: Fake food making lessons are available near Namba station!

What is Doguyasuji Shopping Street?

Do you know about Doguyasuji Shopping Street in Namba?
Doguyasuji Shopping Street, a 3-minute walk from Namba Station, is a local shopping district where cooking equipment and fixtures for business use, such as restaurants, are sold.
In fact, restaurant managers in Osaka purchase cooking equipment here.

Many tourists have been visiting here in recent years, and they call it “kitchen street”.

What is fake food?

Fake food refers to the model dishes displayed at restaurant storefronts in Japan.

Fake food is made to help customers have a clear image of a restaurant’s menu, and you see them everywhere in Japan.

Since lessons are available on Doguyasuji Shopping Street, I had nine foreign visitors, who have never seen fake food before, participate in a fake food making lesson.

“Design Pocket” , which sells fake food goods, is the store on Doguyasuji Shopping Street where we had a chance to participate in a fake food making lesson.

Various fake food items are sold as souvenirs inside the store.
The participants were also excited to see the fake food items for the first time.

Let’s start making fake food!

After a tour of the store, it was finally time for the fake food making lesson.
First, I had all of them try to make battera sushi (mackerel box sushi) samples.

Since it was their first time, they all seemed nervous but they did a good job.
Their battera sushi looked so real that I even wanted to eat them when I looked up close. (^^)

Next were fruit tart and bento samples.

They are harder to make than battera sushi.

Everyone did a great job!

I even recorded the lesson on video, which may make it easier for you to see how fake food is made.

Fake food making lessons are held daily at “Design Pocket”!

Bento Making Lesson
Price: starting at 500Yen (for one onigiri rice ball)
Required time: at least 30 minutes
Qualifying age: 7 or older (guardian support needed)

Sweets Making Lesson
Price: starting at 2,000Yen
Required time: 45 to 60 minutes
Qualifying age: 3 or older (guardian support needed)

Sushi Making Lesson
Price: starting at 2,000Yen (1,000Yen each; lessons available for two or more pieces)
Required time: At least 35 minutes
Qualifying age: 7 or older (guardian support needed)

Why don’t you try making fake food when you visit Osaka?
A variety of fake food goods are sold at Design Pocket, and you can participate in a fake food making lesson.
Please come by Doguyasuji Shopping Street for souvenirs and memories.