Toilet humor with food

[Headless Chicken]

Leave it up to the Asians to think up something weird, wacky, and/or disgusting.

Bowl Over - Pulse24

Restaurants these days will do almost anything to attract your attention.

There’s kids’ play areas, expanded menus, outdoor patios, theme décors, live bands, and if you’re willing to pay enough, you can eat in a private room with non-stop personal attention.

But few Canadians have ever seen anything quite like this. In an effort to stand out from a very crowded marketplace, one eatery in Taiwan has literally thrown its business into the toilet.

When patrons first enter the Marton (Chinese for toilet) eatery in the city of Kaohsiung, the diner’s theme is immediately in their face.

A giant toilet bowl surrounded by two ornate urinals grace the front entrance. And it doesn’t stop there.

There are similar artifacts all over the walls, and patrons sit on ornate toilet bowls as they wine and dine.

And the theme even extends to the meals themselves. Dinners are served on miniaturized toilet bowls, which are supposed to inspire patrons to ‘flush’ their foods – such as the ever popular curried chicken rice and chocolate ice cream combo - together to look like – well, what you’d expect to find in the real thing.

Owner Eric Wang originally started with a street stand selling ice cream in toilet-shaped cones. When he saw how popular the idea was, he expanded, and has now become flush with success.

"Diners come and walk away with the special experience," he asserts. "Many try to create more fun, stirring up curry and rice so it looks exactly like when you forget to flush the toilet. Then they gulp it down."

Student Chen Yi-lin is eating a chocolate sundae out of an Asian-style toilet bowl and she can’t stop laughing. "This is fun," she admits.

As bizarre as it sounds, it’s working. Bathroom breakfasts, lunchtime lavatories and suppertime squats have become the rage at Marton.

It’s hard to say if such a washroom themed experience would catch on here. But gimmicky restaurants appear to be the big thing in Taiwan.

Among the competition – a jail-replica eatery that puts patrons in real cells and a funeral diner that allows you to eat your last meal from a coffin.

Compared to those, Wang’s seems almost innocent. And unlike other entrepreneurs, if his business goes in the toilet, that can only add to his bottom line.


June 3, 2005

[chrose]

Don't make me say it!

[Pierre]

Nick's Bar, in new orleans, serves a 1 gallon mixed drink that is served in a miniature ceramic toilet bowl.
http://www.nicksbar.net/index.html
it's considered a right of passage by many of the Tulane college students.

you gotta like the food offerings as well (from the website):

Our Grill Menu Includes:
Taco Bell in walking distance

[MarkV]

They should open another site in Flushing.

HA!

Mark

[Pierre]

. . . and another in Los Banos, CA