Fake Cabbage

I  received a message from Whatssaps recently, saying to be careful as fake cabbage is in the market. The message came with video attached with duration of 1 min 22 secs . However, the video looked fishy to me  because the video didnt have original audio but only background music, which make it hard to determine the origin of the country.

So, I did a quick investigation which led me to the original video.

the whatsapp video is a cropped of this original video entitled

" Making japanese food samples "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPQrNkOgttQ

uploaded by macdeetube.

Please ignore comments under the video as most of them does'nt understand Japanese Language.

This video is took at a food sample making factory, probably at Gifu Prefectures as mentioned by macdeetube.

"Gujo town in Gifu prefecture of Japan is the place where technology of making these ultra-realistic food samples used to show menu in Japanese restaurants began. These samples are made out of plastic, wax and other materials, and then painted. It is also possible to try making some simple samples by yourself."

In this video, a senior worker of the factory demonstrates to , probably kindergarten students and maybe mothers or teachers on how to make prawn tenpura and lettuce from wax.

Normally restaurant operators display food samples in front of their premises, with price tags, so that customers may have some ideas to what to order and their price wise.
Wikipedia says; "Plastic food replicas appear in the windows and display cases of establishments which serve food throughout Japan. Once made from wax, today they are usually made out of plastic.^[1] The plastic models are mostly handmade from polyvinyl chloride and carefully sculpted to look like the actual dishes.^[2]The models are custom-tailored to restaurants and even common items such asramen will be modified to match each establishment's food.^[3] During the molding process, the imitation ingredients are often chopped up and combined in a manner similar to actual cooking."