After seeing the display of fruit art, she found herself thinking about it for days after. "I did a little more digging and found out that it's a whole industry of its own," she said.

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Fruit carving is still popular as an offering in temples or as a decoration for weddings. Fine arts students can still choose to learn it at university, as they would take painting lessons.

For the past 13 years, Tamawong-Benjamin, 44, who grew up in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, has been trying to perfect the traditional Thai art of fruit and vegetable carving, known as kae sa luk.