This HAS To Be The Trendiest Way To Eat Sushi

Shoe-shi, anyone?

Posted on

17 May 2017

image credit: theonigiriart/Instagram

2017 has been a sushi-successful year.

The Internet has been pretty intense about this delightful Japanese cuisine BUT it's time to forget all sushi trends you might have scrolled through in the past weeks and behold the shoe-shi.

Yep, if Instagram is a culinary judge to go by, then shoe-shi is the newest (and perhaps the most bizarre) way to eat and serve sushi this season.

As the name suggests, shoe-shi is basically an art of creating sushi shaped like sneakers.

A post shared by Yujia Hu (@theonigiriart) on May 15, 2017 at 12:45am PDT

Why? Because wearing sneakers and eating sushi is SO dated.

A post shared by Yujia Hu (@theonigiriart) on May 15, 2017 at 12:17pm PDT

The man behind this incredulous creation is Sushi chef and illustrator, Yujia Hu.

We millennials like to reverse the order of nature, just for the fun of it. And while you may not approve of it, you’ve gotta give it to the man who found a genius way to combine the two loves of his life — sports and food.

A post shared by Yujia Hu (@theonigiriart) on Mar 13, 2017 at 12:17pm PDT

So how does he create these unbelievably similar designer shoes?

Yujia uses tiny strands of black seaweed nori and smooth slips of pink fish to give each rice-based shoe-shi its defined designer features.

Each edible shoe is athletic in style and branding, but that's where the sports part ends and food takes the centre stage. Hu mimics mainstream sneaker brands with the exquisite presentation of a plate of sushi.