Beautiful cakes that are perfect for dieters
Just around the corner from the hospital, there is a large kitchen supply shop. It has the same name as the hospital – Kluay Nam Thai. (This essentially means Banana District in Thai. Our version of the name combines the three words into one.) This shop has been around for as long as I can remember. It sells its products to commercial and restaurant kitchens. It also manufacturers some its own equipment, mainly the display cases and a lot of the metal counters in a shop next door. In addition to its own stuff, it distributes lots of equipment from other manufacturers. If you own a restaurant or catering company, you can pretty much get everything you need from this shop. It apparently is very well respected in Bangkok for its quality products and after sales service.
While walking by this shop yesterday with a colleague, I mentioned that I was surprised to see a supply shop also sell baked goods. It seemed like they were expanding their product line. There were lots of cakes and breads in display cases and I asked if the company had gone into the baking business. Everything looked pretty tasty. He looked at me like I was crazy. They sell mobile and fixed equipment, not cakes and breads, he said. He mentioned that even the hospital had purchased equipment from them. But no cakes. But look at all those cakes and breads. I pointed at the many cabinets filled with delicious looking dessert items. All those lovely cakes and buns and breads were not the work of a baker or pastry chef, he said. They were the work of a very famous chef – at least locally – who specializes in baking plastic dessert items. All of the items in the display cases were plastic, lovingly baked to duplicate the look of real pastry and bread delights. I had been fooled.
Apparently there is a guy in Bangkok with a company that makes plastic food that can be used in shop and restaurant displays to show how wonderful the products are. After all, you don’t want to have real food displays festering away in display cases. That wouldn’t do.
What a disappointment. The Kluay Nam Tai Kitchen only wanted to show how wonderful baked goods would look in their display cases. None of that stuff was real, at least in the edible sense. For those people looking to reduce calories or sugar intake, these cakes, pastries and other baked goods are perfect. After all, no one ever gained weight by just looking.
Reminds me of the Korean restaurants on Bloor St. Only their fading plastic plates of noodles and vegetables etc were definitely not eye catching like these are.
Yea, I remember the fake dishes in those Korean restaurant windows. You see the same things here in Japanese and Korean places. These places are too cheap, I guess, to hire first rate fake food makers like the kitchen equipment place has. They should get high quality fake food to show off. It would probably improve their business.