“Icing on the Cake” explores the embellishment and prop-design integrated into food photography, commenting on its tendency to further orientalize “ethnic” cuisines.

This illustration features the documentation of a classic Chinese fruit cake, being over-exoticized with items that take away its content, history & further exaggerate stereotypes of Chinese culture.

Original Idiom Meaning: something that makes a good situation even better, an inessential addition or enhancement