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You guys learn one term...

Yeah just say horse radish geeze

You're missing a syllable

I was going to say feng shui, but the handful of times I've seen it brought up in the context of food plating the whole point was harmony and balance . . .

Having food askew is probably messing with the eater's qi.

I think this is the reason.

For a deeper look at this philosophy of craft you won't do much better than The Beauty of Everyday Things, by Soetsu Yanagi: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-beauty-of-everyday-thing...

This seems the most likely explanation to me.

It's just much more visually interesting than a page full of perfect burgers. Each one looks like a unique thing from the real world; they don't "look AI", as the kids say these days.

Japoneses aesthetics favor assimetry. There's a lovely book , Book of Tea, that have fun with west tastes https://www.gutenberg.org/files/769/769-h/769-h.htm

Burger chizutsugi needs to be a thing.

Like go pieces being deliberately too large for the board they are used on.

Doesn't that make it impossible to place the stones in the correct positions?

Yes, exactly.

I'm seriously starting to understand Toyotomi Hideyoshi's feelings... (/j)

"I like how mine's a bit off-center"