Every Dish Has
Layers of Stories
✨ Point your phone at any dish to unlock its hidden culinary secrets
Zest is an AR-powered culinary exploration app where diners scan restaurant dishes
to reveal layered cultural stories, ingredient origins, and chef secrets hidden
within each bite. Like a matryoshka doll, every dish contains multiple narrative layers
that diners progressively unlock through tasting prompts and visual clues.
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💫 WOW MOMENT
You're at a Persian restaurant and scan your rice. The saffron-infused grains
on your plate literally glow on your phone's screen, revealing a 3D animation
of saffron flowers being harvested at dawn in Iran, complete with audio from
the farmers and a tooltip: "You just consumed 200 hand-picked flower
stigmas—worth $3 of the world's most expensive spice." Then you swipe
to unlock the next layer: your grandmother's saffron chicken recipe waiting
for you to try at home.