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Women are going loopy for lippy at a Chengdu restaurant offering customers a dessert of ‘edible lipstick’
A video published on pearvideo.com shows the dessert being prepared by pouring melted red-coloured chocolate into lipstick-shaped moulds. They are then set to cool in refrigerators at the restaurant, located in southwest China’s Sichuan province.
Called “goddess fixing her makeup”, a single dessert is made up of four “lipsticks” which retails for 26 yuan (US$4) and is selling out fast to its female clientele, said the restaurant’s owner Xiao Ya.
Xiao said she spent 30,000 yuan (US$4,575) on research and development for the quirky dessert.
“Chengdu has 3,000 to 4,000 hot pot restaurants but there is no dish specially serving females,” she was quoted as saying.
“So, I was thinking of inventing some dishes suitable for local ‘little sisters’ and tourists to take a picture of and share online.”
For female customers “who love to make themselves look beautiful”, the first thing for them to do after eating meals is to fix their makeup, Xiao said.
“One of my close friends said it’s unsafe for us women to eat lipsticks. So, I came up with an idea - why not make an edible lipstick?” she said.
