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We're going to eat out of a WHAT?
Yahoo News ^ | 6/30/2005

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.


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: commode; restaurant; taiwan; toilet
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Yet another adventure in fine cuisine.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

1 posted on 07/01/2005 12:45:39 PM PDT by Mike Bates
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To: Mike Bates

Can I get a second helping of Chocolate fudge topping over here? Mmmmmm Mmmmmm Goooooodddddd


2 posted on 07/01/2005 12:49:31 PM PDT by SengirV
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To: mhking; martin_fierro

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3 posted on 07/01/2005 12:50:01 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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"The taste is good, but I still feel disgusted when I look at it," said diner Lin Yu-may.

Yu-May commence with the puns.

4 posted on 07/01/2005 12:50:34 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

I'd be very wary of drinking the lemonade in this place.


5 posted on 07/01/2005 12:52:09 PM PDT by Buggman (Baruch ata Adonai Elohanu, Mehlech ha Olam, asher nathan lanu et derech ha y’shua b’Mashiach Yeshua.)
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To: Mike Bates

A place where you want your food to taste like cr@p????? I think I'll pass.


6 posted on 07/01/2005 12:52:12 PM PDT by Millee (So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
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To: SengirV

7 posted on 07/01/2005 12:52:24 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: cjshapi

Another crappy meal ping.


8 posted on 07/01/2005 12:53:15 PM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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A place where you want your food to taste like cr@p?????

We can't all be blessed with delicate palates:

9 posted on 07/01/2005 12:54:10 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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10 posted on 07/01/2005 12:55:10 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Keep that up, and urine trouble.


11 posted on 07/01/2005 12:55:28 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: martin_fierro

What a shitty idea, although I'm kinda pissed I didn't think of it.


12 posted on 07/01/2005 12:57:17 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (Si quaestio exsisteret, solutionem offerem)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

Those are some weird accommodeations.


13 posted on 07/01/2005 12:58:15 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Junior

I've eaten at a few places that should have had a similar theme. Definitely a reflection on their food!


14 posted on 07/01/2005 12:59:49 PM PDT by cjshapi
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To: Constitution Day; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson

That looks less like a toilet and more like a bideat.

15 posted on 07/01/2005 1:00:15 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: cjshapi
Definitely a reflection on their food!

Evidently, though, this place is flush with success, whereas the places you describe most likely went into the tank.

16 posted on 07/01/2005 1:02:04 PM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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To: martin_fierro

I never thought I'd see the day that simulated coprophagy would be an idea for a restaurant.


17 posted on 07/01/2005 1:03:02 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: martin_fierro

John told me most people in the world aren't privy to such lavish comodations.


18 posted on 07/01/2005 1:03:57 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (Si quaestio exsisteret, solutionem offerem)
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To: Junior

You're right. They were real stinkers.


19 posted on 07/01/2005 1:05:38 PM PDT by cjshapi
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To: Mike Bates

Do they serve johnny cakes?


20 posted on 07/01/2005 1:06:39 PM PDT by N. Theknow (If Social Security is so good - why aren't members of Congress in it?)
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