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We're going to eat out of a WHAT?
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| 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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To: Mike Bates
It may take a strong stomach to eat curry... He could have stopped right there, and that statement would still be true.
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:08:05 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Congratulations Longhorns.)
To: dfwgator
Agreed. Tacos are about as exotic as I get.
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:09:00 PM PDT
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
To: Mike Bates
It would be better if they served it buffet-style. Just pull the little handle, and your food comes out the bottom of the toilet....
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:09:34 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: N. Theknow
No but they have ho cakes. Ever body love ho cake.
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:10:11 PM PDT
by
doodad
To: N. Theknow; r9etb
Actually, dining there may not be a whole lot different from participating in a Democratic fund raising dinner.
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:11:34 PM PDT
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
To: N. Theknow
Do they serve johnny cakes? I had a friend who tried to serve me "Irish Cream" flavored coffee once. She, having probably never been in a mens' room before, had no clue that it smelled exactly like a johnny cake. I couldn't drink it....
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:11:51 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Mike Bates
Actually, dining there may not be a whole lot different from participating in a Democratic fund raising dinner. Hmmmm.... Ted Kennedy dispensing the food from below, after you pull on the little handle... I'm so disturbed by that mental picture that I just had to share.
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:13:21 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Mike Bates
It's my POTTY and I'll eat off it if I want to....
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:13:28 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(I put the purrr in freeper, baby)
To: r9etb
Just pull the little handle, and your food comes out the bottom of the toilet.... Why not cut out the middleman, and just have it flush directly into a real, functioning toilet? ;)
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:14:00 PM PDT
by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: hellinahandcart; dighton; aculeus; BlueLancer; Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:14:54 PM PDT
by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: Constitution Day
I never thought I'd see the day that simulated coprophagy would be an idea for a restaurant. Which is why the owners have such $#!+ eating grins on their faces.
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:16:17 PM PDT
by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: general_re
Hey, where's the graphic?
:)
To: Junior
To: Mike Bates
That's a good place to go if you want to flush your money down the toilet. Finally a porcelian god that gives instead of takes.
Well, home my puns anr funny, but I don't make any claims, let's face it, "I'm not a comedian, I'm a commodian, my jokes stink." B-)
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:20:54 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - DeCAFTA-nate CAFTA!)
To: Mike Bates
It's not dinner "ala mode," it is dinner "com-mode!"
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:22:08 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - DeCAFTA-nate CAFTA!)
To: general_re
Why not cut out the middleman, and just have it flush directly into a real, functioning toilet? ;) Heck yeah -- Instant gratification. Now you can be hungry again right away, rather than having to wait an hour.
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:24:12 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Constitution Day
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posted on
07/01/2005 1:25:55 PM PDT
by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: Mike Bates
Gonna dump this thread ...
38
posted on
07/01/2005 1:28:57 PM PDT
by
GoldCountryRedneck
("Love and cooking should both be approached with wild abandon" - Author unknown)
To: martin_fierro
After dinner mint?
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posted on
07/01/2005 2:06:47 PM PDT
by
OSHA
(I,ll be breaf.)
To: martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson
Manager Hung
"Lin-wen?" diner Lin
"Yu-may." Ice cream code...
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:29:37 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Some Friday "Martun" humor)
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