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16 tasty works of art made with food

Artist gives new meaning to playing with her food.

“RED” HONG YI is a fan of playing with her food.

The Malaysia- and Shanghai-based artist gave herself a challenge for the month of March: Create a new work of art every day, using only food and a white plate as a backdrop.

“My ‘creativity with food’ series has helped me push the limits of my creativity, and has taught me to work within the confines of a very small area,” she told design blog designboom. “My previous works range from 1 x 2 to 3 x 4 meters. I’ve learned to slice, dice, stir, boil … who would have thought I’d need that to do art!”

Red has been posting the works on her Instagram feed and so far, the results are gorgeous. It’s hard to believe that some of them are made with items commonly found in the fridge.

All pics from Red/Hong Yi

Iconic Campbell's can, made of ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, oyster sauce
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  • Iconic Campbell's can, made of ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, oyster sauce

  • The Arctic melting, reflected in a melting choc ice

  • A giant squid made of squid and squid ink

  • Oreo lap dogs

  • This tiger is made of carrots, white radish, dried prunes

  • A dragonfruit dragon

  • Hong Yi's version of Hokusai's The Great Wave with long-grain rice and nori

  • Sweet scene made with cherry tomatoes, nori, soy sauce

  • The chicken and the egg

  • A lemon sun warms a tiny garden

  • Edible version of Edvard Munch's The Scream

  • The onion owl

  • Rural scene carved from a single cucumber

  • This one's a three-parter: the story of the Three Little Pigs

  • Huffing and puffing

  • And a surprise ending for the wolf

- Julie Zeveloff

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    Apr 7th 2013, 11:15 AM

    My mother used to say You really shouldn’t be playing with your food !!!!

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    Apr 7th 2013, 11:29 AM

    She used to say somethin similar to me but not about my food.

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    Apr 7th 2013, 11:36 AM

    Jesus Ted, you have got to be blind by now. Every article seems to relate to you getting caught turning Japaneso!

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    Apr 7th 2013, 12:00 PM

    My mother used to say to me “shut your mouth and eat your dinner”, i never did understand that, how was i supposed to eat my dinner with my mouth closed???

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    Apr 7th 2013, 10:39 AM

    Very good (apart from the choc ice)

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    Apr 7th 2013, 11:08 AM

    Choc ice is pretty cool actually.

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    Apr 7th 2013, 11:28 AM

    Yes in the mouth and on the tongue :)

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    Apr 7th 2013, 11:34 AM

    Uh oh… Waiting for Ted dirty response to this !!!

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    Apr 7th 2013, 12:33 PM

    And what about the choc ice.

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    Apr 7th 2013, 12:46 PM

    Ah Aimie…. Lisa I can be your choc ice, I go down easy ;)

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    Apr 7th 2013, 1:14 PM

    I nearly would go out with you to shut you up, if you’re as good as you say you are Ted then bring it on!! How old are you??

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    Apr 7th 2013, 1:21 PM

    I’m 168 in dog years Lisa ;)

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    Apr 7th 2013, 2:24 PM

    Haha why can’t I be mad at you on this, you’re one funny fella/dog!! You show have your own show!

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    Apr 7th 2013, 11:06 AM

    Brillent.

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    Apr 7th 2013, 12:15 PM

    My father always told us at the dinner table children are to be seen and not heard in other words don’t talk with your mouth full and place your knife & fork together when you’ve finished , and we had to ask to be excused from the table , I must say it stood all 3 of us in good stead !

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    Apr 7th 2013, 11:30 AM

    excellent. love the last three.

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    Apr 7th 2013, 4:41 PM

    Makes my picture look lame :(

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    Apr 7th 2013, 3:17 PM

    Amazing

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    Apr 17th 2013, 3:23 PM

    Well, now I am hungry for food that I do not have close at hand in my cupboard. Perfect.

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    Apr 7th 2013, 2:44 PM

    wow. very cool. another form of art. would love to see her other work. must Google

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