{"id":52071,"date":"2017-06-05T02:17:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T09:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=52071"},"modified":"2017-06-05T02:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T09:19:36","slug":"curious-case-taiwans-2-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/curious-case-taiwans-2-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Case of Taiwan’s #2 Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"
The following is an article from Uncle John\u2019s Bathroom Reader<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n

\"poop\"<\/a>POO-BOT<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve probably never heard of the Japanese comic-book character Arale Norimaki. She\u2019s a purple-haired robot teenager whose favorite hobby is \u201cpoking poop with a stick.\u201d Arale Norimaki has a huge following not just in Japan, but in other parts of Asia as well, including Taiwan. That\u2019s where, in 2004, a 26-year-old banker named Wang Zi-wei was inspired by Norimaki\u2019s poop-poking example to go into the soft-serve ice cream business. (If you\u2019re at all squeamish, you should probably stop reading right now and turn to another page.)<\/p>\n

GENIUS AT WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somehow, Wang came to the conclusion that if people liked watching cartoon robots poking at poop, they\u2019d probably love eating soft-serve ice cream that looks like poop, served in paper dishes that look like tiny toilets.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s even stranger than the way Wang\u2019s mind works is the fact that his business instincts were dead-on. His human-waste ice cream stand was a big hit\u2014customers not only lapped up all the \u201cdiarrhea with dried droppings\u201d (chocolate ice cream with chocolate sprinkles), \u201cbloody poop\u201d (strawberry ice cream), and \u201cgreen dysentery\u201d (kiwi ice cream) he served, they pestered him to come up with more similarly themed treats.<\/p>\n

After four months of working in the bank by day and selling his frozen fecal confections by night, Wang decided to expand. \u201cThe success with \u2018toilet ice cream\u2019 was a leap of faith for me to quit the stable, but boring, banking job and start my business, despite strong objections from my family,\u201d Wang said. In May 2004, he opened what would become the first location in the Modern Toilet restaurant chain.<\/p>\n

LOOKS FAMILIAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Modern_Toilet_Restaurant2\"<\/a>If you\u2019ve never had an opportunity to dine in a Modern Toilet, it\u2019s pretty easy to conjure up a mental image of what one looks like.<\/p>\n

Picture a large public restroom, say one at an airport or a shopping mall. See all those bathroom stalls? Take the stalls out\u2026but leave the toilets, and then keep adding more toilets until you have about 100. Now arrange them tastefully around bathtubs and sinks that have been covered with glass tabletops. Now hang some showerheads and shower curtains from the ceiling, and install some urinals on the tiled walls to serve as light fixtures. Need a napkin? Help yourself to the toilet paper dispenser on your bathtub\/table. That\u2019s pretty much what the chain of Modern Toilet restaurants look like.<\/p>\n

IT GETS WORSE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGo Pee-Pee or Go Poo-Poo?\u201d That\u2019s the Modern Toilet way of directing you to the beverage (Pee-Pee) and food (Poo-Poo) sections of the menu. There are plenty of entr\u00e9es to choose from; if Modern Toilet Beef Curry (served in a toilet-shaped bowl) doesn\u2019t strike your fancy, there\u2019s always the Japanese Milk Hot Pot, the Texan Chicken, or the No. 2 Double Surprise Banquet Combo (Korean beef and German smoked chicken with cream sauce), also served in little toilets. Appetizers, such as the Fun Platter (California potato fries, onion rings, and popcorn chicken), are served in tiny bathtubs.<\/p>\n

BODILY FLUIDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wash your meal down with your choice of 18 different tea drinks, including Ice Cream Black Tea, Pudding Milk Tea, or Coffee Jelly Milk Tea, plus plenty of non-tea beverages, including Plum-and-Cola and Honey Lemon Juice. If you\u2019re feeling homesick (as opposed to just plain sick), Modern Toilet also serves Ovaltine.<\/p>\n

If you prefer your beverage hot, it will be served in a plain mug. Too boring? Order your drink cold, and it will be served in your choice of either a plastic \u201curinal bottle\u201d similar to those used by bedridden hospital patients, or in a miniature plastic urinal that looks disturbingly like the porcelain fixtures in the Modern Toilet men\u2019s room. Bonus<\/span>: When you\u2019re finished with your meal, the urinal (or the urinal bottle) is yours to keep!<\/p>\n

Did you manage to keep your dinner down? Is there still room for dessert? The dessert menu has been expanded from soft-serve ice cream to include a dozen varieties of shaved ice. Yes, they even serve yellow snow.<\/p>\n

A WORD OF ADVICE<\/strong><\/p>\n

As with any well-designed restaurant, the restrooms at Modern Toilet are clearly marked. But since the entire restaurant looks like a restroom, if nature calls be sure to ask for directions to the restroom and listen very carefully when they are given. If you have any doubts as to whether you really are in the restroom, as a courtesy to other diners, please confirm that you are where you think you are before using the toilet for its intended purpose.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>This article is reprinted with permission from Uncle John’s Funniest Ever Bathroom Reader<\/a><\/em>. Over the past 25 years, the Bathroom Readers\u2019 Institute has published more than 40,000 pages of bathroom reading. In this book you will find the funniest 288 of them (with a few all-new funny pages squeezed in just because we couldn\u2019t help ourselves). That\u2019s page after page after page of laugh-out-loud dumb jokes, dumb jocks, toasts, pranks, kings, kittens, caboodles, and, of course, poorly translated kung-fu movie subtitles\u2014such as. \u201cIt took my seven digestive pills to dissolve your hairy crab!\u201d So whether you like your humor witty or witless, light or dark, or silly or sublime, you\u2019ll laugh until your head explodes. Chortle at\u2026<\/p>\n

Since 1987, the Bathroom Readers\u2019 Institute<\/a> has led the movement to stand up for those who sit down and read in the bathroom (and everywhere else for that matter). With more than 15 million books in print, the Uncle John\u2019s Bathroom Reader series is the longest-running, most popular series of its kind in the world.<\/p>\n

If you like Today I Found Out<\/a>, I guarantee you’ll love the Bathroom Reader Institute’s books, so check them out<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nExpand for Image Source<\/span>

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