Posted on 07/01/2005 12:45:37 PM PDT by Mike Bates
It may take a strong stomach to eat curry or chocolate ice cream out of a toilet bowl, but a commode-themed restaurant in Taiwan does booming business serving up just that.
The Martun, or toilet in Chinese, restaurant in the southern port city of Kaohsiung boasts lengthy queues on weekends as diners wait for a toilet seat in its brightly colored tile interior.
Food arrives in bowls shaped like Western-style toilets or Asian-style "squat pots."
Manager Hung Lin-wen said the original inspiration came from a toilet-shaped spaceship in a Japanese cartoon. The theme has attracted droves of novelty-seeking young people who come to play with their food and gross out their friends.
"We think the theme is special, and the food is tasty," Hung said.
But no matter how delicious, a few customers still find the combination a little hard to swallow.
"The taste is good, but I still feel disgusted when I look at it," said diner Lin Yu-may.
Can I get a second helping of Chocolate fudge topping over here? Mmmmmm Mmmmmm Goooooodddddd
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Yu-May commence with the puns.
I'd be very wary of drinking the lemonade in this place.
A place where you want your food to taste like cr@p????? I think I'll pass.
Another crappy meal ping.
We can't all be blessed with delicate palates:
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Keep that up, and urine trouble.
What a shitty idea, although I'm kinda pissed I didn't think of it.
Those are some weird accommodeations.
I've eaten at a few places that should have had a similar theme. Definitely a reflection on their food!
That looks less like a toilet and more like a bideat.
Evidently, though, this place is flush with success, whereas the places you describe most likely went into the tank.
I never thought I'd see the day that simulated coprophagy would be an idea for a restaurant.
John told me most people in the world aren't privy to such lavish comodations.
You're right. They were real stinkers.
Do they serve johnny cakes?
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