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Cute and delicious food art

Hi, I'm Yuki. I make cartoon-like food art to express my love for healthy eating.

Natural ingredients only

There's no need to use chemicals to dye your food. Nature is your ingredients.

Vegan and Vegetarian

What you see on Yukitchen doesn't contain any meat products.

Except, you know, Jabba the Hutt.

Childhood into a dish

My food art is inspired by my inner child.

Cooking is a place for me to express my regression, with a table spoon of nostalgia.

Neatloaf

It’s not meatloaf. It’s “Neatloaf”! Neatloaf and I first met at a restaurant called  Jyoti-Bihanga in San Diego back in 2011. It was love at first “bite”. It was so juicy, so tender, and it gave me a sense of hope that I will have no problem becoming fully vegetarian one day. It was one of those… 

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Yubaba Miso Soup

This is Yubaba, from the film Spirited Away. She looks so scary to me; her head is bigger than a screen! But what I found scarier than her physical appearance is her magical skill of stealing people’s names, or I should say, stealing their identities. To me, she represents a modern corporation. When you work in… 

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Nigaoe(Caricature) Cookies

“Nigaoe(似顔絵)”(ni-gah-oh-eh) is a caricature. It’s a portrait realistically drawn by capturing or deforming the appearance and characteristics of a person. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always loved drawing nigaoe. I find people’s faces fascinating. It’s the wrinkles, the freckles, and the idiosyncrasies on their faces that I find them so beautiful. And the… 

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Ninjaga (Vegan Nikujaga)

Ninjas are definitely getting fewer nowadays. But just a few hundred years ago in Japan during the Edo period, there were still so many of them. One day, the shogun, -the military leader of Japan, invited a ninja to his castle. I mean, who wouldn’t? Shoguns are just like us; we all want to meet ninjas! So when… 

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Panda Shiratama Anmitsu

“An” means bean paste, “mitsu” means syrup. To me, Anmitsu is an epitome of sugary treats with a side of nostalgia. I remember those summer days in Tokyo where I got in line at a cafe with my mother. Whenver we order an anmitsu together, she would always order hers with ice-cream, and I would always… 

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No Sugar Banana Bread

So far, my banana bread is my number-one requested food in real life. My people really like this, so I keep baking and baking the same thing; because I love validations. I think we all need them sometimes. My banana bread is probably tasty beacsue; One, no added sugar — If you use 4 ripe bananas, you really… 

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Rilakkuma Scrambled Eggs

Most young kids will run after mom if she tries to leave them alone with a stranger. But according to a study, kids who haven’t bonded well with their mothers—psychologists call it “insecurely attached”—will rather stay behind with a security blanket. And in my case, it was always stuffed animals. They say kids with secure… 

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Panda Tapioca Milk Tea With Panda Boba

When I had my first tapioca milk tea, I was a student at UCSD. I was at a “Tapioca Express” AKA “Tapex” on Convoy Street after school, getting in a queue with a bunch of Asian Americans with my heavy backpack filled with textbooks. Asians in the states love Boba, and I became one of… 

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How to make Sake Raisin

You see, I love Rum Raisin. And one day I wondered if they love me back. According to my google search, here is what I learned: Regular Rum Raisin Recipe 1 cup raisins 1 cup dark rum 3⁄4 cup sugar 6 egg yolks 2 cups milk 2 cups heavy cream 1 tbsp. vanilla extract “6… 

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No Face Yakisoba

This is a character from the film Spirited Away, one of my favorite films of all time. His name is No-Face; the spirit of having no personality. No Face is wildly known as “No Face” to some of you, but in Japanese, the spirit’s name is actually “Kaonashi”, and it simply means, “faceless”. To me,… 

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