“Instant Food”: this is the new innovation in instant food production. The Phoenix egg is the most healthy and fastest cooking food and now popular for breakfast. This illustration shows the moment when the Phoenix egg, once open, cooks by its own fire. “Cooking show”: this illustration describes how people cook the fictional creature, Slime, in a cooking show. It shows blue slime inside a metal mixing bowl melting the mixer as well as the bowl. “Drink”: this image illustrates the blood of Unicorn as the cocktail in the bar. People who drink the Unicorn’s blood will get the power, or curse, of eternal life. The illustration creates an illusion of an eternal ring in the cocktail in order to show people’s desire to live forever. “Entertainment”: this illustration introduces an ancient Chinese music dragon, Qiunu with elements of the Erhu, an ancient Chinese string instrument played with a bow. The drawing shows the bow slicing through a barbecued dragon— people enjoy the unique musical dragon bbq, demonstrating the entertainment of eating gourmet food. “Buffet”: This image illustrates a Chinese buffet with the mythical creature, Jingshen fruit. In the centre of the buffet table, there is a Jinshen tree that has baby shaped fruits on it. People can only use golden chopstick to take the fruit down to eat, otherwise Jinshen fruit babies will disappear by its magical power. “Canned food”: this illustration combines Hydra, a nine-headed snake from Greek myth, with eternally canned food production. As hydra can quickly heal its lost heads, the illustration shows the slices of Hydra regenerating new hydra process into non-ending line of canned goods. “Food Hunting”: This illustration introduces people hunting the oversized sea creatures, Kraken. “Nutrition”: this illustration introduce people eating Nymph’s hair as the healthy salad. In the other hand, the fairy Nymph enjoys the hair cut from people eating their extra hair. “Fusion restaurant”: this illustration shows the ficitional creature Ice Bull steak in a fusion restaurant. This steak is dressed up with ice cream and cookie as a giant buffet. Close Mythical Gourmet Mythical creatures processed as gourmet food to demonstrate the possibilities of food production and serving options that imagine the deliciousness of these fantastic species. Jennifer Liu ↗ ..... jenniferl.ca @ ..... info@jenniferl.ca 2019 Jami Hancock JingYi Li