Dish decoration and food carving awareness and application of the importance of beautifying dishes, highlighting the key dishes. Especially with the carving of the subject matter to do the vessel, not only play a lining, insulation, health and other practical functions, there are also baked, complementary, decorative, modeling, expression of interest and other aesthetic role.

The common raw materials for food carving have two categories, one is the texture of fine, solid and crisp, pure color roots, stems, leaves, melons, fruits and other vegetables. Another category is both edible and ornamental cooked food, such as egg products. But the most commonly used or the former category.