101 Challenges:

Location: Taiwan

Details: Our brother Leyton gave us this challenge. It sounded like a pretty easy one: go to a restaurant, order some food and then eat it.

The restaurant was (and still probably is) called ‘Modern Toilet’. A strange name for an eating establishment we thought, before embarking on a near impossible mission of finding it.

2 hours of later, we finally found the place. Off we headed upstairs to be seated and that’s when we found out what makes this place unique.

Diners are made to sit on a toilet seat at a table based on a bath/sink and the food comes in small toilet bowls with a plastic turd. Believe it or not but this is actually a very popular place – which means one of two things… the Taiwanese need to be commended on their eccentricity and sense of adventure and humour or… they have too much money and are stupid with it.

If you order a drink, it’s delivered in a small urinal. This is the most psychologically disturbing thing.

Outcome: Although the kiwi juice we ordered tasted like it should, we just couldn’t get past the fact we were sucking through a straw, which is dipped in a urinal. The lumps of ice and the kiwi seeds do nothing but make you think of those massive stinky polo-mint things they have in the smelly pee-holes in bars and clubs and thus, the entire sensation induces nothing but the need to vomit.

The food looks like a steaming bowl of sh… shitaki stew and again, it’s hard to enjoy something that reminds you of being extremely ill or the dreaded 17 hangover toilet visits on a Sunday afternoon.

Dessert comes in the form of a poop shaped ice cream. It tasted exactly like it said on the tin, or carton, or box. But it did make us giggle like 5 year olds. We liked that.

With all the novelty and uniqueness aside, this is one place we wouldn’t recommend to anyone. The food was crap (not literally) and, to be honest, the challenge was a little too easy for our liking so, we had to (we wanted to) up the anti by pulling down our trousers and mocking a number 2. Much to the bemusement of the other diners.

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