Edible Excretions: Taiwan's Toilet Restaurant

[Liberal_in_LA]

I can see kids enjoying this restaurant, especially little boys

Edible Excretions: Taiwan's Toilet Restaurant



"There's poop everywhere! Y-u-c-k," says 6-year-old Jordan Lien as he and his family dine at the Modern Toilet, a popular Taiwanese restaurant chain that's expanding into China and other parts of Asia. The boy was looking at the poop-shaped lights and dish covers and the curry on toilet-shaped plates.

Diarrhea for dinner? That's the point. "It's supposed to shock and confuse the senses," says Modern Toilet manager Chen Min-kuang. But as Jennifer Finch, an American who was dining there, described it, "They do it tastefully. It's all very clean." (See the top 10 food trends of 2008.)

Every customer sits on a stylish acrylic toilet (lid down) designed with images of roses, seashells or Renaissance paintings. Everyone dines at a glass table with a sink underneath. The servers bring your meal atop a mini toilet bowl (quite convenient, as it brings the food closer to your mouth), you sip drinks from your own plastic urinal (a souvenir), and soft-swirl ice cream arrives for dessert atop a dish shaped like a squat toilet.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1882569,00.html?cnn=yes

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[City of Mills]

1. Why

?

[Richard D]

2. This epitomizes . . .

. . . just because you can do something doesn't mean it should be done.

[babylonsister]

6. Ugh. You're right, but it's fascinating that anyone would think this

is a good idea.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. I kind of prefer the toilet used as a planter on the front lawn!

[Mojambo]

4. That's it. I'd like a one-way ticket off planet Earth please. n/t

[BuyingThyme]

5. Mmm hmm.

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. Do they have the Kitty Litter cake there?

[Captain Hilts]

9. I just learned about kitty litter cake in the last year. A friend of mine has made one three times!

And folks think only little boys love this kind of thing...

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. As someone with two messy cats... EWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Captain Hilts]

8. Most little kids would just love this. nt