Design Concept

Dim Sum restaurant is a traditional place for Chinese elder people to spend hours hanging out with friends or families. The way ordering food works is there are food carts that keep moving around the restaurant with variety of Dim Sums and the customers pick what they want. Our mission was to make this ordering experience enjoyable and playful.  So we decided to use two panda dolls to mimic the interaction between the customers and cart. Each customer is provided with a table panda, that upon pressing the belly, will raise its arm and turn on the electromagnet. This signifies the customer needs more food, and the cart panda points to the closest table panda that has the arm raised.