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Modern Toilet Restaurant: Dine While You Look Like You’re Taking a Dump

Hazel Chua — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:00:12 +0000

Back when I was still a kid, I remember the look of disgust my mom threw me when I told her I wanted to finish my lunch in the bathroom because I desperately needed to do a number two. (She didn’t let me take my plate in there, in case you were wondering.)

But apparently, eating while looking like you’re sitting on the john is the concept that the Modern Toilet Restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan is working with.

The entire restaurant is decked out in full with themes straight from the lavatory, from the toilet seats that you’re supposed to sit on to the food that’s served on ceramic toilet-seat shaped bowls and toilet cover plates. Drinks are even served from those portable urinal bottles. Delicious.

Apparently, the restaurant has been so popular, that they’ve opened a number of branches all over China.

The food in the place sounds pretty decent and given my history with wanting to eat on the toilet, I’m actually interested in visiting this place one day. I wonder if their bathrooms look like a dining room.

[via Chair Blog]

[Photo Credit: Koryn Iledan]

Do Dancing Japanese Samurai Robots Serve Bbq in Thailand? Yes.

Range — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:11:23 +0000

This is something that I expected to maybe see in Japan, not Thailand. After a bit of investigation, it turns out that the robots don’t serve you sushi, but Shabu-Shabu (hotpot) and BBQ, which you cook at your table.

These types of eateries are very common in Asia. You get a bunch of meat and veg, and you cook it up in your own little hot pot. The Hajime restaurant is operated by Lapassarad Thanaphant in Thailand. She spent over 30 million baht ($930,000 USD) on these automatons that were created in Japan, of course.

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Customers get their orders in via a touchscreen, and the robots deliver food and clear it away. The robots can also do a little dance and are dressed up as samurai. Why? Why not?

[DJMICK via DVice]

Buff Up at China’S World of Warcraft Restaurant

Alisha K. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:38:22 +0000

All those millions of World of Warcraft players have to eat somewhere, and an enterprising Chinese businessman hopes that at least some of them will be paying him for the privilege of refueling at his new WoW-inspired restaurant. The entrance welcomes the hungry–and the brave–into a Dark Portal much like this one:

Inside, the eatery is a love song to Blizzard’s MMORPG, with recreations of armor and other loot, and giant screens blasting in-game images while diners order food named after WoW characters. It’s a haven for anyone who can’t get enough (if, that is, you can leave the house to get there), and according to the owner, that feeling of shared fandom is exactly what he was going for with the restaurant.

Considering China’s official position on intellectual property, it’s doubtful the establishment has any sort of sanction. We should probably all be grateful the restaurants won’t be spreading all over the world.

[CCTV via WoWInsider via Game|Life]