Planning a trip to Paris soon? Or, are you at Paris?
Check out this new shop opening at the Louvre in Paris. They call themselves the WikiBar but, nope they do not sell alcohol but rather they sell these quaint little balls called the WikiPearls.
Wiki-What?
WikiPearl is the result of the hardwork by a Harvard Bioengineering Professor, David Edwards. He has successfully made ice-cream balls covered with a flavoured protective skin. You can say, it's very much like the snow skin mooncakes we have over here in Asia.
Flavours
Currently, the shop has three flavours:
In fact, these wikipearls are part of a bigger picture by David Edwards. That layer of skin, known as WikiCells, is natural food particles bounded by nutritive ions. His goal in inventing this WikiCell was to eliminate food packaging(i.e. plastic) and improving consumer's healthy by portion control and vitamin-supplemented skin. By 2014, he aims to have wiki vending machines that allow consumers to make their own wikipearls by choosing the flavour of the skin and the flavour of the ice cream!
On a side note, having a vending machine company was one of my dreams that I have not fulfilled. But this Wiki Vending Machine could be quite an exciting addition to Singapore! What do you think?
So, David Edward's aim is to start with ice cream as the filling but he is planning to experiment with more food products and eventually change the eating habits of consumers. He quoted an example where a mum could go to the vending machine and create an orange soda with french-fry skin for her kid's lunch.
That's a pretty weird combination, but let's say if i have a chance to make my own wiki pearls that's good enough as a meal, I would have... creamy mushroom with seaweed skin.
Actually, to think about it, there's takoyaki balls and mochi from Japan... No?
So, if you are heading to Paris.... give it a try and let me know how it taste like!
Cheers!
All WikiPearls-related images retrieved from here.
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