Although it’s been quite some time since I’ve had access to my lasers, I still find myself thinking about ideas from time to time. We recently did a roadtrip here in Thailand from Bangkok up to Chiang Mai, which is a beautiful drive once you get to the more northern half of the country. Northern Thailand is known for a dish named Khao Soi, among other things, but after making it to Chiang Mai, we had to find a place that made that dish. It’s delicious regardless of who made it, but this place we went to, named after the dish, was unique! They had the soup version of it, as well as a stir fried version, both so good.
Anyway, they had these manhole covers outside of the restaurant and I remembered a while back that others had shared their Japanese manhole covers, I figured I would add to that. The following are just image clips, not the file:
Same file, just with outlines turned on versus fill. I honestly cannot believe how long it took to get this file ready off of the original image, I’m both rusty and innefficient 
, but it was fun nonetheless to get back into design work! Here is original image for reference:
Finally, the file:
Somebody please put this on something so I can live vicariously through you and post it down below!!
This was the first one I’ve seen that was decorative, and I’m assuming it was due to the nature of the restaurant. The whole area of the restaurant was Japanese themed, so I’m guessing the owner was heavily inspired by what she saw in Japan, but is also detail oriented, so instead of having regular manhole covers outside of her restaurant, she chose these. If you look at the spoon in my pictures up above you’ll notice it’s quite unique and definitely detail oriented, as well as the restaurant’s symbol on the dishes. I think she’d fit right in with this bunch 
Here’s a pic of an unfilled version of the same cover:
