Absurdly Small Edible Food, From Two YouTubers On Opposite Sides Of The World

​Japan has long had an obsession with all things kawaii — a special form of cuteness with connotations of smallness, naivety and embarrassment. As it applies to food, there are countless videos of people "making" food using the miniature plastic toys¹ manufactured by Re-Ment or Konapun². 

Two YouTubers, one in Japan and one in Denmark, took it upon themselves to make "kawaii cuisine³" fully edible. 

The first, Celine Hedegaard, goes by AkameruKawaii and has been posting tiny food videos for over a year. By all appearances her specialty is baking, and she uses a candle-powered doll's stove to make everything from pecan pie to crepes. 

 

The second YouTuber, Miniature Space focuses more on Japanese cuisine — but has made Western fare as well — and occasionally uses Sterno instead of a candle to allow for (we assume) more reliable high-heat cooking. Unfortunately there's almost no personal information⁴ about whoever is behind this channel. 

What makes these obsessively tiny meals even stranger is that many of the tools and "appliances" these tiny chefs use have long been out of production. 

Making food this small also requires some adjustments: in the above crepe video a quail egg is used in place of a chicken egg, most likely to keep the proportions correct. Similarly, the incredibly small shrimp Miniature Space makes tempura out of are — some commenters speculated — a variety sold in aquarium shops that likely do not taste very good. But taste is somewhat secondary to the idea that all these food could be eaten.