There are times when animated cartoon food makes you hungrier than actual food. The way it looks, the way they show how it's prepared -- everything's just so aesthetically pleasing! In Studio Ghibli, you can't deny that you may have wanted to taste Ponyo's ramen or the bath house meals in Spirited Away a few times while watching it. Check out these GIFs that'll make you run to your kitchen as soon as you're done with this post.
This is a GIF taken from Spirited Away wherein the bathhouse staff are preparing hefty and scrumptous meals for the spirits when they arrive. You can see fish, tofu, chicken, veggies, and a lot of other food being prepared by the chefs in the steaming kitchen.
Here's a GIF from Up On Poppy Hill where tempura is being fried. The detail in the animation is so precise that you could just tell that the tempura's going to come out all crunchy and golden brown once it's done.
A GIF from Ponyo wherein honey is being mixed in with a warm mug of milk. Have you ever tried that before? If you haven't, maybe looking at the GIF long enough can make you start craving for it.
Another GIF from Spirited Away where Lin (a bathhouse worker) and Chihiro are enjoying a delicious pork bun after a stressful night at work.
A tender, juicy slab of bacon being cooked in Howl's Moving Castle. Notice that the fire wants to take a bite out of it? Maybe you'd want some of that as well.
Satsuki preparing her family's packed lunch (also known as bento) in My Neighbor Totoro. It looks like she prepared rice, fish, a bit of leafy vegetables, and some pink rice topping called Furikake. I wish my mom prepared my school lunches as cute as these.
Sosuke and Ponyo getting ecstatic over their bowl of delicious, hot ramen. Based on the egg and slices of pork in the bowl, it looks like they're about to feast on some Tonkotsu Ramen.
No Face, Chihiro, and Zeniba talking over cheesecake and tea. The Japanese are well-known for baking delicious, melt-in-your-mouth cheesecakes annd watching No Face take a slice of it looks very tempting.
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