This week's Radical Restaurants star is Modern Toilet in Taipei, Taiwan. Most of us have heard the phrase "praying to the porcelain god," and let's be honest, most of us have found ourselves doing this at one time or another. Now imagine importing from the toilet rather than exporting into it. Yes, that's right: Modern Toilet's theme centers on the bathroom. Click through the pages below to read more about this unusual eatery.
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Customers Sit on Toilets as They Dine
The Modern Toilet was created after one of its founders read the manga "Dr. Slump" on the pot and became inspired.
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Feces-Shaped Ice Cream
The first item to be served was feces-shaped chocolate ice cream in squat toilet containers. They were such a huge success that soon a full-fledged restaurant was created.
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Toilet-Shaped Dinner Bowl
Nothing is quite as tempting as having your dinner arrive in a toilet-shaped bowl.
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Interior of the Restaurant
Instead of sitting on regular seats, diners sit on seats made from toilet bowls. The three-story diner seats 100 people and is lined with sink faucets and gender-coded signs.
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Customers Eat from Toilet-Shaped Bowls
The toilet-based concept has been such a huge success that there are now a dozen of them open and ready to serve.