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post Jul 12 2005, 01:32 AM
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Dinner from a toilet bowl
From correspondents in Taipei
June 30, 2005
From: Reuters

New fad ... throw away your dinner plates, these will soon be seen in all the best kitchens / file DINERS are queueing for hours to eat at a restaurant where meals such as curry and chocolate ice cream are served in toilet bowls

The Martun, or toilet in Chinese, restaurant in the southern port city of Kaohsiung boasts lengthy queues on weekends as diners wait for a toilet seat in its brightly coloured tile interior.
Food arrives in bowls shaped like Western-style toilets or Asian-style "squat pots".

Manager Hung Lin-wen said the original inspiration came from a toilet-shaped spaceship in a Japanese cartoon.

The theme has attracted droves of novelty-seeking young people who come to play with their food and gross out their friends.

"We think the theme is special, and the food is tasty," Hung said.

But no matter how delicious, a few customers still find the combination a little hard to swallow.

"The taste is good, but I still feel disgusted when I look at it," said diner Lin Yu-may.


Here's the link http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15778295-13762,00.html
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 01:34 AM
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Ew. That seems nasty...
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 01:36 AM
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This belongs in the food forum..Ickk. That's weird.
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 01:36 AM
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ewww... toilets? then you cant drink the melted icecream!!
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 01:45 AM
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Heh, I love creative people. wub.gif
I mean, who would have tought of that, right?
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 01:51 AM
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wow mellow.gif tha-tha-tha-thats really nasty

lol when i was reading the post i was drinking a coke and i about spit it out lol
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 01:52 AM
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wow, that seems sick. even if it wasnt real, you could lose your appetite real quick. im going to look this up @__@;; haha.
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 02:34 AM
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Ugh. I have a sick stomach thinking about that already.
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 02:39 AM
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umm...why!? blink.gif that would be just...weird. hm. yeah. ermm.gif

moved to food.
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 02:41 AM
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It's not even that "nasty". Its how people look at it and its part of their normal custom.
 
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i'd go to that restaurant happy.gif

sounds like a romantic place to go for a first date rolleyes.gif

yummy.
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 04:40 AM
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sick.gif that's gross..
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 09:01 AM
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How....interesting... blink.gif
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 09:06 AM
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yeah i saw that on some website. they had pictures of asian people eating very happily out of toilet bowls. they had smiles on their faces. tongue.gif
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 09:24 AM
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That's hilarious, and very creative. I mean, it's not like the toilet's are dirty or anything, so I don't find it gross. Now, if they were dirty.. that'd be just disgusting, but otherwise that's pretty neat.
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 08:24 PM
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i went to that resteraunt before it is called "ma-tong gwo" i dont like the food...just look at it makes u puke ><
 
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ewww thats sick!
 
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post Jul 12 2005, 10:21 PM
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and that's another excuse to not visit china! ick
 
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QUOTE(anubis @ Jul 12 2005, 3:13 AM)
i'd go to that restaurant  happy.gif

sounds like a romantic place to go for a first date  rolleyes.gif

yummy.
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QUOTE(elmogurly @ Jul 12 2005, 9:21 PM)
and that's another excuse to not visit china! ick
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dude. that's so not cool to say something like that. hammer.gif

especially when there are so many azn people on this site.
 
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post Jul 13 2005, 10:31 PM
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Eww..........real toilets? blink.gif

Erm..............there's this restaurant in Taipei thats sumthin like that, except its not from real toilet toilets, for creativity, the bowls and plates are shaped like toilets. And the chairs u sit on are fake toilets.....................so yea....
 
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post Jul 13 2005, 10:41 PM
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Check out the Google ads for this thread...funny huh.gif
 
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HAHAHAHAHHA Hwwwtff. ...

um NICe.
 
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Eww, that doesn't sound appealing. sick.gif
 
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post Jul 14 2005, 08:29 PM
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cool! i'd try that out. lets just hope these arn't used toilets. i highly doubt it though.

brown sausage or chocolate ice cream would really be funny to eat out of it.
 
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post Jul 15 2005, 11:21 PM
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How could you eat anything over a toilet unless it's new. that's sick.
 
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post Jul 16 2005, 02:50 AM
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Let's just think of it as an oddly shaped plate.
 
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post Jul 16 2005, 02:29 PM
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thats...weird. sick.gif
 
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post Jul 16 2005, 06:56 PM
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Creative yet extremely EW! sick.gif
 
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Um.. Why can't we just use bowls and plates? Why resort to using a toilet? Wow.. This is interesting.. Now please excuse me

















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post Jul 16 2005, 08:16 PM
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QUOTE(honorguard @ Jul 16 2005, 3:50 AM)
Let's just think of it as an oddly shaped plate.
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blink.gif wacko.gif blink.gif wacko.gif
 
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post Jul 16 2005, 09:19 PM
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Oh man that sounds gross. it's probably clean and everything, and it's not a real toilet (i think?) but the idea is just nasty
 
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post Jul 17 2005, 01:19 AM
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Yeah I'd eat there but it would be hard to get any of my familly or friends to go with me. ermm.gif
 
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post Jul 17 2005, 10:32 PM
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QUOTE(Teesa @ Jul 12 2005, 2:36 AM)
sick.gif

This belongs in the food forum..Ickk. That's weird.
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We are in a food forum... _dry.gif
 
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post Jul 30 2005, 02:41 PM
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haha I know this is an old topic, but my friend sent me some pictures of it, so i figured i'd share
 
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post Jul 30 2005, 06:17 PM
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Those are cute! I thought they used real, full-sized toilets. Thanks for posting the pics. Glad to know they're just "novelties." laugh.gif
 
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Um.

Yea. Not a good idea.

Funny, though.
 
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post Sep 11 2005, 06:25 PM
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It looks and sounds nasty, but it's kind of cool.
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post Sep 12 2005, 05:31 PM
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haha thats jus wrong.. i prefer plates over anything\\

edit///the pics above are actually pretty cute, haha
 
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QUOTE(elmogurly @ Jul 12 2005, 10:21 PM)
and that's another excuse to not visit china! ick
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rolleyes.gif Taipei - Taiwan ?? Old topic. whistling.gif
China, I don't believe there is a place where you eat with toilet bowls. The way you say it sounds like you just hate China. Or Chinese people. In my opinion, since I'm Chinese, it just sounds wrong, since there are so many asian people in cB. Plus, I find it really disgusting on how they make the food in the toilets. Just disgusting.
 
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post Sep 18 2005, 09:04 PM
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Nice....... must be tasty ..and visually appealing hahahah

i should try -_- o_O yeah.
 
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post Sep 18 2005, 10:35 PM
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If the toilet is fake, that is not nasty but I will still lose my appetite.
And if it is real... *pukes*
 
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that seems kinda gross.. looks cool though. but its a ... toilet!
 
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QUOTE(peggysturr @ Sep 18 2005, 10:35 PM)
If the toilet is fake, that is not nasty but I will still lose my appetite.
And if it is real... *pukes*
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It's not a real toilet! It's like novelty bowls and stuff.
 
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Yuck. Ew. That's perverse.

Haha.
 
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post Oct 6 2005, 03:28 PM
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ermm.gif uh.. no thanks.. lol

That's different, though I guess. I would just die if my boyfriend took me out to eat there. sick.gif
 
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That's sick and nasty, people have urined and took a poop in there thousands of times & they eat off that, sanatized or not, I wouldn't eat anything off of a toilet bowl.
 
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QUOTE(Szeh @ Oct 6 2005, 3:19 PM)
That's sick and nasty, people have urined and took a poop in there thousands of times & they eat off that, sanatized or not, I wouldn't eat anything off of a toilet bowl.
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I dont think its a real toilet.. i think its just a plate or bowl shaped llike one.. lol
 
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Wtf? I've never heard of that, and some of my family is from Taiwan. That's weird and disgusting.
 
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I would never eat something that came served to me in a toilet bowl.

I wouldnt even be able to eat.

Imagine if someone ordered something that looked like sloppy joe

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That sounds really gross... =/
 
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post Oct 8 2005, 10:35 PM
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I've seen pics of the restaurant in Taiwan. It's really really cool. The chairs all look like toilet bowls. And I think the bowls are actually really cute. If I went to the restaurant, I'd attempt to steal one. pinch.gif But I most certainly will not order a chocolate ice cream.
 
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I didn't notice last time, 'cause no picture displays.
 
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yuck!!! that sounds horrible
 
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lol ugh, serious? i was only playing!
That is pretty gross. How could you EAT out of a toilet bowl.
That's just messed up. I mean i'm sure people nowadays will do anything; but where's your sense of propriety?! crazy.gif
 
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Oh I saw that on TV a while ago.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it. As long as the toilet bowls are sterilized properly, it's nothing different than serving food with plates.
 
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