Jun 5 2008'Modern Toilet' Restaurant Sounds Awesome
As a man who frequently blogs and eats his lunch on the john, I know all about the benefits of canning your food (!). And now there's a restaurant in Taiwan that is cashing in on what I've known for years -- eating on the throne is the shit (!).
Patrons sit on toilets for seats and eat food off covered sinks and bathtubs. The food is served in a mini-toilet bowls and patrons drink out of mini travel potties. To finish the atmosphere, toilet paper is provided in the place of napkins.
"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.
Wow, Lin Li-ju, it sounds like your son has a problem. Namely that he was born with a vagina and doesn't know how to appreciate the finer things in life. Seriously, if I had one of those oldschool TV-dinner stands I don't think I'd ever leave the bathroom. So yeah, I once saw a little kid at Home Depot urinate in one of the unplumbed toilets they had on display. I wonder if they have similar problems here. Well, my legs are going numb, time to get up.
Several more pictures and a video news report about the place, after the jump.
Dining Here is Always a 'Crappy' Experience [weirdasianews]
Thanks Melissa, lets go eat there sometime and see if they freak out when I lift the lid and sit down bare-assed
Reader Comments
1. bw-inc - June 5, 2008 1:11 PM
It's such a weird concept... but I'd totally eat there! I'd like a swirly chocolate poo shaped ice cream.
2. SmokingGirl - June 5, 2008 1:12 PM
That is just a little too weird for me. Perhaps I'd go once just to see what it was like, but I wouldn't make it a priority to go.
Alright, enough of that, who wants to go to 'Cracker Barrel' with me? I'm in the mood to play some HUGE checkers.
3. Momboelitist - June 5, 2008 1:28 PM
Cracker Barrel is waaay overrated. Redneck wannabe roundup.
That being said, I'm sure this restaurant is the product of 2girls1cup.com
4. poopoo - June 5, 2008 1:33 PM
That's it, I'm opening a restaurant named "Surgery." Everything will be stainless steel and every dish will come with a sticky red sauce poured over it. Maybe the plates themselves will resemble different body parts pinned open. Would you eat there?
As for modern toilet, why go out for poo when you can have it fresh at home?
5. Stan Wingson - June 5, 2008 1:42 PM
Can you like fart and take a crap while you're eating? That would be a make or break for me...
6. Kevin - June 5, 2008 1:42 PM
Dude, this is old. I blogged this almost two years ago, and I'm sure I wasn't the first:
http://blogs.sun.com/kevin/entry/really_bad_restaurant_day
7. Meaty Urologist - June 5, 2008 1:43 PM
A perfect idea for a Mexican joint!
(get it? it goes right through you)
8. Uncle Eccoli - June 5, 2008 1:55 PM
That is f***ing nasty. There is something wrong with those people.
9. gabor - June 5, 2008 1:56 PM
yes just that the idea is entirely a plagiat of a scene of Luis Bunuel'movie: «Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie». Too sad that nobody had referred to this filmmovie.
10. JP - June 5, 2008 2:05 PM
#4
there's such restaurant in Singapore.
You sit in a wheel chair, table is made of the aluminum operating table. Some of the foods are served in syringes & IVs.
It's called Aurum (Au = Gold).
11. Praz - June 5, 2008 3:52 PM
I would hate to go there, simply because I would get tired of hearing people say "This food is the shit!"
12. Popadopolis - June 5, 2008 4:31 PM
I get tired of hearing people say, "Dude, this is old. I blogged this almost two years ago, and I'm sure I wasn't the first..."
There's a wonderful FAQ page for this site that (according to my secretary) says the information might be old and this site isn't a news resource and it's designed for entertainment and yada yada yada my secretary is so hot...
13. Shoes - June 5, 2008 7:37 PM
A.) I'm immature to think this is awesome. If I lived in Taiwan, I'd go once a week and giggle like a moron through out the entire meal.
B.) I so want to go to the surgical Singapore resturant....
C.)
14. Elmo - June 5, 2008 8:41 PM
I had a dream when I was a kid......
15. Dnalel - June 5, 2008 9:19 PM
you forgot the "T" in restaurant.
16. emily - June 5, 2008 10:24 PM
"Mini travel potties" is one of those phrases that makes the English language so beautiful.
17. Xaroxantu Zero - June 5, 2008 10:52 PM
There's a Modern Toilet in Hong Kong as well. I went there a few weeks ago with a friend. I had curry beef rice, which was served on a black mini-toilet. The drink I ordered was served in a mini-urinal. It was awesome.
18. ollie - June 5, 2008 11:37 PM
uh talk about old news.. i saw this and read about it like almost a year ago
19. Joey - June 6, 2008 12:25 AM
I just love people that post comments without reading the other comments first, don't you? :)
20. Maersk - June 6, 2008 10:24 AM
There's a Modern Toilet in Hong Kong? Where exactly in HK is it?
21. Dizzy - June 6, 2008 11:51 AM
"he was born with a vagina and doesn't know how to appreciate the finer things in life."
WHAT THE HELL?!
22. Banshee - June 7, 2008 1:45 PM
There's one restaurant just like this here in my city, Porto (Portugal). It's been open for years and people just love it, for parties and stuff... still weird though. lol
23. surgeonsgirl - June 7, 2008 8:54 PM
born with a vagina???
so is betty tsai born with a penis that helps her eat on toilets?
let's not forget the horrors we girls witness monthly thanks to our vaginas...
we only pretend to be squeamish.