Toilet Food

Taipei, Taiwan (and, unfortunately, other places too).


Two girls, one toilet

This could go under "Stupid Food Products" but it deserves its own post...

There is a restaurant -- a chain of them, heaven help us -- that serves food in toilets. It's called Modern Toilet and it's poopular with teenage girls. I was wandering about Ximending shopping area in Taipei, near the "American Street" (slang term) where they have hip hop clothing shops and b-boy types rock bi-lingual graffiti. Me and my friend Desoto were DJing outside one of these shops one afternoon. After dropping a bit of bhangra funk, I went for a pit stop.


(My t-shirt is here.)

As I was walking -- I'm sure I'm not the first sucker tourist to fall for it -- I saw a sign that said "Modern Toilet" and thought I'd go in to take a piss. I did. But I also nearly vomited as I watched the patrons eating food out of toilets. [disclaimer: I did, as usual, have a hangover]



Seriously guys. What's up with this? I've heard about these places before, and thought it was some wacko gimmick that would pass -- but this place was packed! There was a line out the door. And it's not the only one!



You sit on Western style toilet seats, drink bubble tea out of mini-urinals, and eat desserts out of little squat toilets. Some of the dishes look like sh*t. Intentionally! Girls with Hello Kitty accessories flock here. More. More.



I couldn't do it. I'm the weird meat guy. I've eaten real poop. But eating food out of a toilet -- file under "wrong", not just weird.

Do you get it? Could you eat food out of a toilet? Even if it looks like a turd? Leave a comment.