When his boyfriend Mark moved in with him a couple years ago, UK-based photographer Michael Zee started making breakfast for the two of them every morning. Proud of his culinary creations, he’d post photos of the side-by-side dishes on Instagram. Soon, the couple noticed something about the way Zee arranged the food on the two plates—it always seemed to be symmetrical.

So that became his thing. Zee created SymmetryBreakfast, an Instagram account to which he posts daily photographs of his morning meals for his 477,000 followers. The dishes started out simply with pastries and coffee and such, but became more and more elaborate. The dishes Zee now makes are colorful works of art: duck egg crumpets, curried home fries with a coddled egg on a paratha, cachapas with queso de mano. Reddit user Jeremy_Alberts shared the story with the Food community.

“The final image on Instagram does little to show the sheer scale of the performance going on behind the scenes in my kitchen,” Zee explains. “Whisking, chopping, frothing, huffing and puffing, no one, other than Mark, witnesses the drama unfolding each day.” (We have yet to hear from Mark, who very well may be saying during the daily photo shoot, “Hey, I really gotta go to work—can I eat now?”)

In his posts, Zee showcases the recipe books, local food producers, appliances, ceramics and stoneware he uses. He’s now writing a cookbook, SymmetryBreakfast: Cook-Love-Share, exploring what breakfast is and what it means to people around the world.

Even as the project has grown into a professional endeavor, Zee believes it’s about romance first. “One person making breakfast for another in perfect symmetry leads viewers to ask ‘Who are these people?!’” he wrote. “The answer: anyone who loves their partner.”

Here are some of Zee’s beautifully symmetrical breakfasts:

Hong Kong egg waffles

Homemade rye knäckerbröd with smoked salmon

Green Harissa egg boats

Duck egg crumpets, sausage, beans and pancakes

Giant Folar de Chaves

Turkish inspired breakfast pizza

Figgy Banana Bread

Dutch Baby

Looking at the photographs, Redditors stacked Zee up against their own partners.