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Look So Real
Categories: Shopping Arts & Crafts Shopping Hobby Shops Arts & Crafts, Hobby Shops [Edit]
4151 Hazelbridge WaySte 3750
Richmond, BC V6X
Neighbourhood: Golden Village
(604) 295-8195
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
2 reviews for Look So Real
2 reviews in English
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Review from Claudia L.
Burnaby, BC
7/2/2009 2 photos
There's one and only one reason why I'm rating this place five stars: you must see it to believe it. This store is filled with anything and everything you could imagine ... but plasticized. I didn't know that the fake breast trend spilt over to normal products like food and drink. What's happening to our economy?
When you walk through the doors you'll get smacked in the face with an overwhelming stench of phony plastic mixed with boiled hot dogs. Hay. Don't ask me okay.
Remember in the 90s when sushi restaurants just started out in Vancouver? Most people didn't know why anyone in their right mind would eat raw fish that was wrapped in seaweed and dipped in a muddy mixture of soy sauce and this green pasty thing called wasabi. So sushi restaurants started displaying their dishes in window casings to help passing customers visualize its deliciousness. But restaurants soon realized that the avocado in the cali roll oxidized and turned a nasty greenish brown and the tempura got soggy and mixed in with the udon soup, kinda looked like vomit. So somebody thought of the brilliant idea to create plastic versions of these dishes that restaurants used for display and was semi-successful until it became retro and outdated.
**Disclaimer: I totally made that up so if my data is wrong, I got it from the hobbit.**
I thought these days were over since Vancouver has become a bigger fan of sushi than little girls of Jonas brothers but it seems that this company has figured out a way to mass produce and distribute wholesale all foods plastic. From dim sum, to sushi, to pasta and pad thai, they have your favourite food - plasticized.
Maybe if I were a six-year old kid again, I would be begging my mom to complete my international culinary tea set by lending me her life savings for these plastic foods but I think the company should adapt to market trends and produce things that we would really like to look real, like the perfect boyfriend or wife :P -
Review from Lorrie M.
11/9/2009
This place has got to be one of the coolest stores I've ever visited. You know sometimes you see those really cute pictures of hamsters on the internet eating what appears to be "real" trays of human food but are some how hamster sized and they look SUPER adorable doing it?
Well all of those people got their hamsters foods from here! This is a store that has all kinds of sizes and shapes of plastic foods that look EXTREMELY real; so real you feel like you can touch it and it would melt in your hand. Awesome.
