Pokémon: Pikachu Bowl

No matter which generation of the cult little monsters you grew up with: Pikachu really is a name to everyone. The yellow electric mouse is the best known figure in the series and has long since made it out of the games and the show into daily life – onto clothing, onto bags and, yes, onto dishes. The Electric-type Pokémon with the red cheeks has stood for the whole series since the nineties.

With the Pikachu bowl the electric mouse lands on your table. A full 600 ml of capacity offers room for every purpose: for ramen, for muesli, even for drinks. A shockingly cute Pikachu and lettering to match the type decorate the outside, while the inner rim is trimmed with familiar balls from the Pokémon universe – they surface one by one as you eat the bowl empty.

The print is of high quality and durable. Although Electric is famously very effective against Water, you can put the bowl in the dishwasher without a second thought, and neither it nor the print loses any HP. It is microwave-safe too, so reheating yesterday’s leftovers is no problem.

So this is less a collector’s piece than everyday tableware: it goes onto the table, into the dishwasher and back again, without any especially gentle handling. As a gift the bowl works for children just as well as for adults who followed the games from the start – and as a splash of color in a kitchen full of white dishes. If you eat a lot of ramen and instant noodles anyway, this is the bowl for it.

Capacity: 600 ml
Motif: Pikachu and lettering outside, balls on the inner rim
Dishwasher: Safe
Microwave: Safe