A closer look
Modern Toilet Restaurant in Taipei pioneered the deeply unsettling dining trend of serving brown, heavily sauced curries and chocolate ice cream directly out of miniature ceramic toilet bowls. Patrons sit on actual bathroom fixtures instead of dining chairs while wiping their mouths with toilet paper completely unspooled from standard dispensers mounted on the restaurant's tiled walls. The sheer novelty of the concept draws massive crowds of tourists who gleefully ignore the primal human instinct to keep fecal imagery as far away from their dinner plate as physically possible. It is a brilliant psychological experiment proving that modern consumers will gladly pay a premium to eat something that actively triggers their gag reflex, as long as it looks good on their social media feed
