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Thu Jun 30, 9:15 AM ET TAIPEI (Reuters) - It may take a strong stomach to eat curry or chocolate ice cream out of a toilet bowl, but a commode-themed restaurant in Taiw an does booming business serving up just that.
The Martun, or toilet in Chinese, restaurant in the southern port city of Kaohsiung boasts lengthy queues on weekends as diners wait for a toilet seat in its brightly colored tile interior. Food arrives in bowls shaped like Western-style toilets or Asian-style "s quat pots." Manager Hung Lin-wen said the original inspiration came from a toilet-sha ped spaceship in a Japanese cartoon. The theme has attracted droves of n ovelty-seeking young people who come to play with their food and gross o ut their friends. "We think the theme is special, and the food is tasty," Hung said. But no matter how delicious, a few customers still find the combination a little hard to swallow. "The taste is good, but I still feel disgusted when I look at it," said d iner Lin Yu-may.
A family eats at a toilet-themed restaurant in southern Taiwan city o f Kaohsiung June 29, 2005. The Martun, or toilet in Chinese, restaurant in Kaohsiung boasts lengthy queues on weekends as diners wait for a toil et seat in its brightly colored tile interior. Food arrives in bowls sha ped like Western-style toilets or Asian-style 'squat pots'.
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