If you’d like to add a Japanese taste to your table, why don’t you try adding mamezara to your place settings! They are so much fun to collect and use! You can use different styles to reflect your current mood or whatever aesthetic you’re feeling that day! Mamezara is a small plate or shallow bowl (smaller than 12cm/ 4.7″ in difinition). Mamezara written “豆皿” in kanji: “豆” mame means beans and “皿” sara means plate. This tiny thing is very Japanese, and we highly recommend it for a Japanese style table presentation.
Mamezara is commonly used for serving soy sauce for sashimi, as a salt dish, or for other condiments. You could also use them for butter, jam, or cookies during your coffee break. Depending on its shape, it could also be used as a chopsticks holder! We often use multiple mamezara at once; sometimes arranging different small ones together or on a larger plate. Another aspect of mamezara is that they add accents to your table, as they include a large variety of colors, shapes, patterns, and materials. You can spice up a place setting just by adding or changing the mamezara you use with it. A pop of color here, a fun pattern there; get creative!
We believe there are many more merits to using mamezara. First of all, your meal will, of course, look gorgeous with them, and that improves your mood right away! Secondly, having dinner plated with mamezara will give you the feeling that you live your daily life in a mindful, sensible, and purposeful manner. You don’t need the food to be an elaborate chef; just simple, thoughtful dishes displayed in mamezara. Even parts of your Uber meal can look nice in them! A third merit is that eating out of mamezara can actually help you eat healthier in terms of how much you eat at a time. Compared to a large plate of food, the portion that can fit into a mamezara is small, and this makes you take more time to eat and enjoy. You will feel full and will have eaten only what you need. This also applies to your coffee break. Eating snacks out of a bag is notorious for making you eat more than you intended. With mamezara, though, you have to take small portions. What a good idea for your well being!
Can you see now how mamezara helps you to eat beautifully, cook simply, and live more healthy? Why not use something that so easily lets you show off your style! There are so many reasons to add them to your table there though, the best reason is that mamezara are so enjoyable; even for preparing an enjoyable dinner! We hope our mamezara compliments your meals and fits into your lifestyle!
