Before allowing that tendril of delicately battered calamari to hit the tongue, a diner should first admire the artistic manner in which the tempura was arranged upon the gold-flecked Japanese paper lining its woven bamboo dish.
On 19 September, the eve of the full moon, many people take to the streets or parks carrying lit paper lanterns hooked over a thin bamboo stick (or the modern plastic equivalent).
After some doodling in Photoshop we found the same surface that was too rubbery for our fingers to be slightly too slippery for the stylus, lacking the advertised "paper-like tablet surface" as found on the original Bamboo.