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In the two years I’ve lived in Asia so far, I’ve spent what most people would deem a worryingly large amount of time in weird theme restaurants. Living most of my life in the UK, where a cafe serving breakfast cereal is considered the height of quirk and petitions are set upagainstthe opening of owl bars, has led to a deep appreciation of eateries where you can spoon ice cream from a toilet bowl or share chips with a cat. While the range of themes at these places is wide, from the sex-based restaurant in Taiwan to Beijing’s disputed East China Sea territory-themed cafe, most have two things in common. Firstly, with the draw being the decor rather than the menu, the food is mainly woeful. Secondly, the owners usually claim there’s some deep meaningful reason why they chose their theme, rather than simply because people might think a load of plastic cocks on the wall or whatever is funny
And so it is with Prison Feng Yun in the city of Tianjin, a half-hour train ride from Beijing in Northeast China. The country’s first prison-themed restaurant has furry spider toys hanging from the ceiling, a fully-stocked bar and, for some reason, modern US country music constantly blaring. But the inspiration behind the place, which opened last September, is supposedly more serious than the cos surroundings suggest. “I want people to experience what it’s like without freedom,” says owner Zhou Keqiang (that’s him in the plastic chains, below), chatting to me across a table segregated from the main room by metal bars. “I want them to experience the reality of it, so they’ll stay away from committing crime.”
Noting the bandstand in the center of the room, the friendly staff in orange bibs bringing us beers and the large plate of chicken nuggets in front of us, I have to say I feel skeptical about the effectiveness of this place as a crime deterrent. But then Zhou unveils his masterstroke, walking out of our mini-cell, closing a gate behind him and locking it. “We close and lock all the gates on customers after the dishes are served,” he says proudly, as I imagine a thousand British fire safety officers having heart attacks. “Some people ask me whether this environment will lead to a misconception of prison, making people want to go in because it seems so nice here. I can’t stop that, but my intent is not that.”
To be fair, Prison Feng Yun goes beyond the installation of metal bars to portray the reality of prison in China. An accurate reflection of authorities’ penchant for torture is reflected with a water torture-themed table. “We fill up the bit under the table with water in the summer and give customers flip-flops,” says Zhou. There was once a nod to torture in the food, too. “We used to have a dish that translates to English as ‘Cutting people to death’,” Zhou says. “And we had other dishes that had food arranged to look like handcuffs, or a gun. But we got rid of all those. Chinese people have vivid imaginations and a lot of these dishes just didn’t sit well with them, so we changed them to normal dishes.”
Zhou has also had issues with his prison and torture themes rubbing older customers the wrong way. “Many older people come in and then leave straight away because they think it’s quite taboo,” he says. “It reminds them of the Cultural Revolution. I target people born in the 1980 and 1990 because their minds are more open. People over 40 have a difficult time taking all this in.”
I’d argue that some of the details, rather than the overall theme, have the potential to cause more concern. One room boasts this tasteful framed photograph of two electric chairs.
Another has a charming image of a naked woman bound up in front of some chained convicts. I’m not quite sure what’s going on here, but it doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen on Prison Break.
But it’s easy to ignore such imagery, and luckily I have no repressed personal memories of the horror of Mao Zedong’s decade-long anti-capitalist smash-down. So I’m happy enough to enjoy Prison Feng Yun as simply the latest in my endless tour of harmless silly Asia eateries.
POSTED BY Pocahontas ON Wednesday 14 October 2015 @ 23:44
I heard about this restaurant which is called a ROBOT RESTAURANT in Bangkok a while go already. If you are running
short of ideas to entertain your kids or to enjoy your day, geeky or unusual
things is Hajime is an entertaining place for a lunch time or dinner. Hajime is
a Yakiniku restaurant, one of the extremely popular eateries in Asia that comes
with a mini barbecue in the middle of each table. it might be suprising to
first timers but so far nothing is particulary striking. What can makes Hajime
unique is the fact that food is brought to you by a Samurai Robot! So its with
some excitement that we walked into this Japanese restaurant located near Rama
road, scanning the room for any sign of this unique machine. As far as we
recall and for those of you who are old enough remember they were promised
robot will servants and flying by the year 2020 but so fat it hasn't really
happened instead we agot the internet. Science fiction has finally caught up
and a robot will serve you today!
The restaurant is set in a
double U shape with guest sitting on each side of glass alley equipped with a
track. In the rear of the restaurant, with their backs to us, are two white
robots dressed as Samurai Warriors. On each table a touch screen will be displays
all the dishes available with plenty of meat and seafood options. Select all
the items you feel like eating the press "order to robot". So far, it
is plenty cool and extremely promissing. Then everyone, anxiously gets ready to
see the machine in action so the minutes pass and the robots are still there,
facing the kitchen and immobile, it almost feels like they are ignoring us.
more time passes and the robots are motioness because the human apologizes but
the still stay there.
This themed restaurant is yet another example of a place I’d love to see in person. It’s an airplane themed restaurant where you feel like you are on a luxury flight as you have dinner. There is only one major difference, well besides the fact it’s not on a real plane. That is, the food on this flight is exceptional. It’s not the typical bag of pretzels we normally get on flights.
Flight BA2012 is the new high concept pop-up restaurant launched by British Airwaysthis week in Shoreditch, to bring together and promote several strands of BA’s high-profile, high cost Olympic marketing strategy. Sounds sexy doesn’t it? Well, as flight attendants usher you to your table in the sleek mock-aircraft interior, it certainly is. The cabin’s clean colours, sharp lines and crisply uniformed staff make you feel at once relaxed and like you’re at the start of a futuristic adventure. It’s quirky. It’s fun. And the glass of chilled champagne as you take your seat makes for a smooth take off. A look at the menu brings you right back down to earth though.Inspired by BA’s in-flight food from around the last London Olympics in 1948, you can’t help thinking the average episode of Ready Steady Cook! would have turned out a more enlivened set of ingredients: beef, beetroot, cabbage, mashed potato, mackerel, duck egg. The futuristic ambiance of the cabin definitely sagged under the weight of the bucolic dishes on offer.
Where was the great British food of today? Is fish pie or beef topped with piped mashed potato, no matter how beautifully presented (and it was) any way of trumpeting what puts the great in GB 2012?I should add that all the dishes will be served in either Business or Club Class on actual BA flights this summer, so certain technical considerations limit what is achievable. Nevertheless, most M&S pre-packed salads show more inventiveness than the frankly workaday combinations that chef Simon Hulstone offered up. While well executed, these dishes were examples of British food at its most comforting, conforming to a pervasive and persistent stereotype that British food is unadventurous and rather drab.If British food was meant to be celebrated and championed by this menu, then it’s a British food of a bygone era. It was a trip into the past which left me feeling that our national airline is misrepresenting us. I just hope visitors from abroad manage to leave their expectations of Britain at the airport gate and discover just how adventurous and inventive we really are.
Everything about it is designed to be like the real plane, including the windows, cabin lighting, overhead bins and seats. The oval shaped seating area you see in the pictures below are the most expensive seats on this luxury plane in this restaurant. Many times lovers book that table so they have a little bit more privacy. The servers at this restaurant look and dress like real flight attendants, and they’ve all been trained so they can act like them too.
Flight BA2012 is open weekdays (except Bank Holidays) until April 17 2012 in London.
Cabbage and condoms in Bangkok is a restaurant with a difference. Using a quirkly name to highlight a serious issues, it is a great place to enjoy some tasty Thai food knowing the part of the profit is going to a good cause. Cabbage and Condoms was started by a lagendary and much loved public official called Mechai Viravaidya. He is an ex-politician and philanthropist who decided to try and improve the lives of Thai people by highlighting a wide range of social issues such as sexual health, sustainablility and anti-curruption. The fun loving and irrevent wat that Khun Mechai has tackled some social problems has been so succesful that Mechai is now a slang word for condom! Open everyday at 11:00 to 22:00 the restaurant is situated on Sukhumvit 12, less than a five minutes walk down the streets from Sukhumvit Road and walking distance from Asok Skytrain Station and Sukhumvit MRT. Ther also has both outside and inside seating, and although it does get busy, you usually don't need to book ahead.
Yum woon sen (glass noodle salad with shrimp). Usually a very spicy dish, but the one at Cabbages & Condoms was manageable, even for delicate, Scandinavian taste buds.
Whatever profit the restaurant makes goes toward promoting birth control, disease prevention and village development in a country that is 80% rural.
POSTED BY Pocahontas ON Thursday 10 September 2015 @ 01:50
The bustling "New Lucky Restaurant" in Ahmadabad is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls, and the graves between the tables. Krishan Kutti Nair has helped run the restaurant built over a centuries-old Muslim cemetery for close to four decades, but he doesn't know who is buried in the cafe floor. Customers seem to like the graves, which resemble small cement coffins, and that's enough for him. "The graveyard is good luck," Nair said one recent afternoon after the lunch rush. "Our business is better because of the graveyard." The graves are painted green, stand about shin high, and every day the manager decorates each of them with a single dried flower. They're scattered randomly across the restaurant - one up front next to the cash register, three in the middle next to a table for two, four along the wall near the kitchen. The restaurant started as a small tea stand just outside the cemetery. Little by little, the walls of the tea house were expanded until they completely enveloped the graveyard. The tombstones are still in place inside the restaurant. Patrons have to walk past tombstones to reach their tables.
Krishan Kutti Nair doesn’t know who the graves in his restaurant belong to, but local historians suspect they are the resting places of relatives of a 16th-century Sufi saint whose tomb lies nearby. Regardless of their inhabitants, one thing is for sure, Nair doesn’t plan on removing them anytime soon, despite people’s advice to make more room for customers. Every morning he wipes them with a damp cloth and decorates them with fresh flowers, as he considers them his good luck charms.
From my opinion, restaurant that have graveyard in it is quite creepy but somehow it is good because it can remind society of death.
"Nyotaimori" (which literally means "female body plate") is the name of the japanese restaurant that serves sushi and sashimi on a naked woman's body. The body is made from food and placed on an operating table, much as though in a hospital. You can "operate" anyway and anywhere you want by cutting open the body and eating what you find inside. The body will actually bleed as you cut it and the intestines and organs inside are completely editable. It's a banquet of Cannibalism.
Cannibalistic Sushi, an edible body is wheeled out to your family on a gurney , along with as much scotch as you need to disinfect your forks and convince yourself that this was a good idea. Then, its time to dig in! Whether youre using chopsticks, a knife anf forks or your bare hands, one things for certains: you will be feasting on the entrails of a human being. The artisans at Cannibalistic Sushi have taken pains to ensure that the human body you are ripping into is as lifelike as possible. The sushi inside is shaped to resemble human organs, a red blood sauce is embedded in the skin layer so as to create realistic bleeding, and your corpse even has a set of papier mach genitals! Its like your third grade arts and crafts projects all over agains. If youre an experienced cannibal, make sure to specify a male or female corpse when ordering, and show the other dinner just how sophisticated your taste in human flesh is. And although eating at Cannibalistic Sushi mathose may not quell the voices in your head that command you to kill and devour those around you, it will certainly shut them up for a day or two.
The restaurant has kicked this concept up a notch by designing what may quite possibly be the world’s most disturbing dish. Rather than eating the meal off of a woman’s body, diners eat the actual body itself.
Some people said that This restaurant does not exist. There is no actual evidence of an actual restaurant doing this. The photos and video probably just came from either a special event or the whole thing was made with paper mache.
I'm not sure if it is a good idea.It just seems like a gross concept and inapropriate to have it in Malaysia.
A Bizarre, Hospital-themed restaurant in Riga, Latvia where patrons eat amongst operating tables, medical equipment and other hospital related paraphernalia, while waiters dressed as nurses wait on them. The allure of Hospitalis restaurant is a pecular mix of hedonism and aseptic dread of hospitals. Here bartenders wear lab coats and waitresses and are dressed in skimpy nurse uniforms and fluorescent orange wigs. They will strap you in a strait jacket and spoon feed you if you order that special item in the menu, and sign the mandatory agreement. Meals are served in stainless steel dishes and eaten with surgical utensils. Drinks are served in medical beakers and test tubes. Its a horror show meets dinning experience, one that takes your sense of reality, and possibily a sensitive stomach, for a dark, dream like roller coaster ride.
Hospitalis was a bizarre hospital-themed restaurant in Latvia that featured staff dressed like doctors and nurses, an interior that resembled an operating room, and surgical tools for cutlery.
Medical beakers, test tubes, and jugs serve in place of wine glasses and cocktail glasses at the bar.
It is designed to test your squeamish, this unique restaurant forces you to eat realistic body organ-shaped dishes using actual surgical utensils.The restaurant appears to have closed several years ago.
From my opinion, it is quite good and it can be a place that attracts tourists.
