Ebi, or shrimp, is one of the ingredients popular among Japanese cuisine. It can be served as a tempura, boiled and served as a piece of nigiri or cut up into small pieces to create a maki roll.
But this 'ebi' here is not for eating.
As a 'model', the fried shrimp comes to life to play guitar, barbecue, and relaxing. Called 'Ebiflife', the fried cuisine that is fond of wearing straw boater hats, has become a hit on social media, where it shares photos from its everyday life inside a typical Japanese home.
Sharing many photos on social media, Ebiflife is also seen eating ice cream, sunbathing, doing up and down flights of stairs, naps by the fan on the tatami mat floor, looking out the window, use rubber swim ring around its waist.
The account, which just opened on August 15th, has tens of thousand of followers with posts having more than ten thousand Likes.
In the days where 'COVID-19' coronavirus pandemic hits the world and forces many people to remain indoors unless going out is really necessary, people have become more creative in their social media approaches. And Ebiflife is one good example.
When plastic food samples have become popular in their own right, with even people selling them, or showing others how to make them, Ebiflife shows how food samples can also have a character and gain popularity on the internet.
Ebiflife is written out as “ebifuraifu” in Japanese, which puts together the word “raifu” (life) with “ebifurai” (fried shrimp). So Ebiflife roughly means a "fried shrimp's life".
While Ebiflife takes a presence of a fried shrimp, it does give an illusion that the decapod crustaceans is still alive.
And with the unique way the person behind the account modeled the shrimp, Ebiflife is given a unique character that people adore.
"I may update less frequently, but I would like to continue for a long time. I hope to deliver the appearance of shrimp fry that enjoys spending every day with the change of seasons," said the person behind Ebiflife.
