This past Friday I ate dinner out of a toilet and drank out of a urinal while sitting on a toilet. In Dongmen, one of the biggest shopping areas in Shenzhen, there is a restaurant called the Modern Toilet Restaurant. If you want to test your Chinese, the website is www.m-toilet.com. This is a Taiwanese restaurant with a toilet theme. The chairs are Western toilets, and the light fixtures are urinals and piles of poop. There are also cute and cuddly, smiling, stuffed poos.
The seven of us took a lot of photos with our strangely-shaped bowls and plates. We also made a lot of poo-related jokes. Who could resist when your chocolate ice cream arrives in a pink urinal with bits of frozen corn on it? (See the photo.) For those of you who are curious, corn should never be added to ice cream. It does not make dessert taste better.
One note I want to make is that at Modern Toilet you sit on Western toilets but the actual toilets are Chinese style (squatty pottys). The Chinese will eat while sitting on our toilets, but they will not crap in them. I do not think it costs that much more money to install functioning toilets. The restaurant had to special order poo-shaped light fixtures anyway.
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