[Vigilanteman]

They need to go to the Japanese and get them to make plastic models of the food. Much cheaper and reusable as well. Lots of foreigners whom I knew in Japan would go to the wholesale district to buy models of that plastic food displayed in the windows of better restaurants.

I had a favorite curry rice restaurant when I worked in downtown Tokyo. The owner/chef made a great curry rice for a reasonable price, but operated on a shoestring. He rented a floor above a fancier restaurant and had a small display at the entrance to the stairs, so he put out the actual food. He probably ate it before he closed the shop for the day.

[RegulatorCountry]

High quality “prop” food for photography or display is not cheap at all.

[JimSEA]

I never saw anything like the plastic food displays in Tokyo! Isn’t there a street there devoted to many manufacturers of fake food?