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SushiAirways in Singapore

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Monday 4 March 2013

Air travel and sushi are two things we love, but don’t necessarily picture together. So it’s pretty neat that SushiAirways boldly mashes up both. Its interiors are playfully modeled after the Douglas DC-3, an American fixed-wing aircraft that was big in the 1930s, while Jap cuisine is served by staff dressed in matching uniforms reminiscent [...]

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Death Wish Coffee: twice the caffeine of a normal coffee bean

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By Mike Brown in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 2 March 2013

This is the home of the world’s strongest coffee. Death Wish Coffee has been gaining popularity in the coffee community over the last six months. nNothing artificial goes into this brew. It’s just strong, all natural, fair trade, organic coffee beans. This may be the most evil coffee on the market right now.

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Now you can create a Gummy Bear replica of yourself

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By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Friday 1 March 2013

There was the gummy bear chandelier and the gummy bear dress, which wowed us with their off-the-wall foodie WTF. Nothing, however, could prepare us for this latest gummy creation: a jelly replica of you. Now on offer in Japan, men can create spitting images of themselves in gummy form thanks to Tokyo’s FabCafe – the same café-cum-design-studio that [...]

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Zombie Cake Pops and more from Kiss and Bake Up

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By Helena Maratheftis in New Food and Packaging on Friday 1 March 2013

‘Got style, will bake’ is the slogan of Kiss And Bake Up, a bakery based in Devon, UK. Kiss And Bake Up specialise in jaw-droppingly intricate cake sculptures, often with a quirky, geeky edge (think Doctor Who and Harry Potter). The bakery is run by Sarah, a gorgeous blue-haired baker who has as much attitude [...]

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Would you pay to eat soil? In Tokyo, you can

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By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 23 February 2013

At French restaurant Ne Quittez Pas in Tokyo, which serves up southern French cuisine with fresh seafood from Misaki, Kanagawa as well as green produce, you can also find soil in your food. It’s not of the accidental variety either. Owner-chef Toshio Tanabe, who has previously worked at Michelin-starred restaurants, recently started offering customers a [...]

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Is Cookie Melbourne’s best restaurant?

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By Cormack O'Connor in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 21 February 2013

Cookie is one of those places. You know the type: tucked away, easy to pass by without batting an eyelash and frighteningly good. Hidden above Melbourne’s bustling Swanston street in Curtin House, Cookie takes everything you know about Thai cuisine and flips it on its head, adding a signature modern spin. If you’re looking for [...]

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Pairing food and drink with string

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By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 20 February 2013

Oh, snap. Serious foodies out there who excite their taste buds by pairing food and drinks that complement each other need to direct their drool towards Kyle Dreier’s photography series, where he literally ties up food and drink with a bit of string. There’s milk and brownie, sparkling sake and tuna sushi, white wine and [...]

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Foods of a Pantone colour

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By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 20 February 2013

Sometimes our eyes get so hungry, we think we can eat an entire Pantone colour. In her Pantone Food series, Belgium-based art director and photographer Alison Anselot takes a handful of seriously colourful food and lays them against their corresponding Pantone swatch colour. Now we know graphic designer code-speak for strawberry cake: 1895 C.

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Black Blood of the Earth: a month’s worth of caffeine in a 750ml bottle

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By Mike Brown in New Food and Packaging on Tuesday 19 February 2013

Coffee and Beer meet mad science at Funranium Labs. Here you will find $350 beer steins that are worth every penny, and a groundbreaking product called Black Blood of the Earth, which contains a month’s worth of caffeine in each 750ml bottle. May your beer always stay cold and you never grow tired.

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Lily Vanilli’s Bakewell Tart: creative baked goods

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By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Tuesday 19 February 2013

Remember that anatomically-correct heart shaped cake? Well, Lily Vanilli strikes again! In this playful short, the queen of creative baking displays her visual artistry with an animated bakewell tart recipe. Word on the street is, she’s got a new book too.

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Longtable: dishes that mimic vinyl records

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By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Friday 8 February 2013

Wicka wicka! Bring out your inner DJ and set your (turn) table with these envy-inducing plates. Hailing from Italy, Longplate is a series of cleverly designed dishes that mimic vinyl records. Stylish illustrations are splashed across the plate’s center with sayings like Nice to Meat You and My Bloody Entrecote. Though the collection certainly eggs [...]

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House of Wine’s Wijnhuis: an initiative to help raise funds for the homeless

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By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 7 February 2013

Good wine in a good house for a good cause. From the creative mind of one Dutch wine expert and a group of local savvy designers comes Wijnhuis: a new initiative to help raise funds for the homeless. Color screen-printed labels adorne the bottles, which are tucked inside a die cut “house” made of old [...]

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Chocolates mixed with random edibles

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By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Monday 4 February 2013

Chocolate is just chocolate, right? Not when it comes to Chocomize, which makes customized chocolate bars that you can stuff a multitude of pretty random stuff in, like 23 karat gold flakes, mini pretzels, graham teddies, bacon bits and Monkey Munch. Yes, you can even have them stick a candle in it. Sadly, the wax isn’t edible.

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Eat your lover’s face as 3D chocolate heads

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By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 2 February 2013

Want to eat your lover’s face on Valentine’s day? Thought so. All right, just nip around to the Fab Cafe in Tokyo and place an order for these 3D chocolate moulds of your lover’s head now.

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Pärlans Konfektyr candy shop in Stockholm

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By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 23 January 2013

Feeling nostalgic for Scandinavia circa 1930? Look no further than Pärlans Konfektyr: a vintage candy shop in Stockholm that hand makes its sweets within the setting of a superbly old-fashioned boutique.

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