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Samantha
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
Location: Jinan-dong Hwaseong
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 Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 4:21 am Post subject: Would you eat here? Theme restaurant in Taipei... |
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This is different....to say the least. Check out the photo slideshow with the article. It would definately be one of those places to take pictures, should be part of a unusual sites tour or something.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/food_taiwan_toilet_dc;_ylt=Alk57X0._zUAyJVnZfIkIE6aK8MA
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Taipei diner attracts clients with toilet humor By Ralph Jennings
Tue Nov 13, 4:38 PM ET
This Taipei restaurant might consider it a compliment to be called an outhouse as the Modern Toilet diner is one of chain of themed eateries appealing to largely young clientele with a toilet humor.
All 100 seats in the crowded diner are made from toilet bowls, not chairs. Sink faucets and gender-coded "WC" signs appear throughout the three-storey facility, one of 12 in an island-wide chain of eateries with a toilet theme.
Customers eat from mini plastic toilet bowls. They wipe their hands and mouths using toilet rolls hung above their tables, which may be glass-topped jumbo bathtubs.
"Most customers will bring their cameras in because the place is quite special," said Yang Chung-chi, a manager at the restaurant in north Taipei.
Owner Wang Tzi-wei opened his first Modern Toilet in 2004 after being inspired by a Japanese cartoon featuring restroom images and the toilet themes run through the food and drinks menus.
Modern Toilet draws on people ages 15 to 35, especially students from the three universities near Yang's facilities because they're "easily excited," Yang said. He said older people just wouldn't get it.
"It's really unusual, so special that it doesn't gross me out," said Betty Tsai, 16, a Taipei high school sophomore trying Modern Toilet for the first time on a friend's recommendation.
But for a few customers, the toilet humor is too much.
"My son thought it was disgusting and didn't know if he could finish his food," said Taipei mother Lin Li-ju.
Managers say the restaurant's popularity shows that Taipei customers, who have a choice of theme-eateries that resemble jailhouses and hospitals, appreciate creative dining.
"In the evenings, we easily fill up," Yang said. "Our headquarters is still looking at expansion."
(Editing by Miral Fahmy) |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 4:53 am Post subject: Re: Would you eat here? Theme restaurant in Taipei... |
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Customers eat from mini plastic toilet bowls. They wipe their hands and mouths using toilet rolls hung above their tables, which may be glass-topped jumbo bathtubs.
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Well now, they just stole that from Korea. |
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Samantha
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
Location: Jinan-dong Hwaseong
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:47 am Post subject: |
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Yeah I thought of that as well. The line that I thought was funny in there was
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| Modern Toilet draws on people ages 15 to 35, especially students from the three universities near Yang's facilities because they're "easily excited," Yang said. |
They are "easily excited" isn't that just a polite/PC way of saying they are more immature or are they more perverted?  |
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