Its super easy to use your phone! Look! This took like 5 seconds to shoot this delicious dish I made! Yummy!
The AI pictures an Indian restaurant in my area uses, really look like slop. Not like AI slop, but regular slop. Grey goo in tinfoil trays. I have no idea why they do that, the actual food looks better.
Is that the famous bread and water soup?
I was just talking with someone about the old restaurants and cafes that would have the faded pictures of the food up in the light boxes.
No professionally staged, meticulously lit promo shots of impossibly perfect burgers. No AI slop. No looping video screens of people tearing and squeezing food in weird ways. Just a faded old photo that someone snapped exactly as it comes from the kitchen.
Japan has the peak method of restaurant dish advertising for restaurants: Sanpuru
I liked that, easy to see what you’re going to get. Kore desu. Kill me for spending 10 minutes to slowly read the old style menu on the wall.
Also makes it easy as someone who doesn’t speak much (really any) Japanese to know what I’ll be getting if they don’t have an English menu, or I’m unfamiliar with the dish
This thin gruel could have presentation & sugar added to it and be sold as a $14 aperitif
Is this wanton soup?
No, it’s pretty well-behaved.




