Things have been a quiet here as I have been on holiday in New Zealand for the last 5 weeks. I tell you this not merely to gloat (it was lovely, by the way) but to explain how we happened to be in Hong Kong overnight looking for somewhere to eat, when my wife spotted the ad below.
That’s right. A toilet themed restaurant where “Food is served in mini toilet bowls” and the dessert looks like a, well, see for yourself. The ad was in a tourist brochure and they have a website, so it appears to really exist.
I was curious about what the real toilets in this restaurant look like. Not curious enough to eat out of a toilet bowl to find out though.
When in Rome…?
I bet that they’ll probably do pretty well, at least for a while, because of the novelty factor. Sure, maybe most people wouldn’t want to eat there, but when your restaurant is competing with every other restaurant in the city, they’ll probably benefit from sticking out from the crowd.
That chocolate ice cream swirl is just too much. Ugh!
This is probably a very unfair characterization/stereotype, but why does it seem that the most crazy and outlandish ideas seem to come from Asia? I can’t imagine anyone in the US even attempting that because of the guaranteed bankruptcy.
>why does it seem that the most crazy and outlandish ideas seem to come from Asia?
I expect Asians think that all the weirdest ideas come from the West.
> I was curious about what the real toilets in this restaurant look like.
Well that’s the funniest part of all: While the restaurant looks exactly like toilets, the toilets look exactly like a restaurant!
Well maybe.
> I bet that they’ll probably do pretty well, at least for a while, because of the novelty factor.
Actually that must indeed go well because such themed restaurants have been existing in the China/Japan area for years now.
I believe it started in Japan.
It actually started in Taiwan. They are a chain:
http://tinyurl.com/b7my6l
On that page you will find:
In an age where creative marketing is king, even feces can be turned into gold!
>They are a chain
A toilet chain? ;0)
>even feces can be turned into gold!
Hence the Yorkshire saying “Where there’s muck there’s brass”:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/408900.html
haha!!! I am dying laughing here. This is ridiculous. I wonder how popular this restaurant and I also want to know what the person who started this place was thinking?!
There has been a similar restaurant in Taipei Taiwan for a while now. Perhaps they were successful and expanded internationally :)