Saturday - The Toilet Restaurant

Today Vi and I decided to make our way back to Dongmen (walking street). There are a lot of shops there with great street food and last time we were there, we saw a restaurant called the Modern Toilet Restaurant and we decided we wanted to try it out.

The cool thing about this restaurant is that you either sit on a toilet for a chair or on a booth (nowhere near as fun as sitting on a toilet). Vi said it's a Taiwan restaurant so they had a bit of everything. I had spaghetti and salmon with a cream sauce while Vi had a Udon noodle bowl. We also had two little sides of fried potato wedges with cheese and bacon bits and a fried shrimp dumpling thing. It was all good. Another interesting part was the food was served in some form of a toilet. The funniest looking dishes were the one that the couple next to us got (that's the picture you see here) and the ice cream. Let's just say it looked less than appetizing in the dishes they were served in, but funny in a way.

I took just a couple quick pictures of the area and a short, 10 second video to give you an idea of what it's like. It was raining and it's cold so we didn't want to stay out very long. The video is just to show you how crowded it always is and how there's always people shouting with megaphones about special deals and prices to attract people in, it's very annoying. You can also see one of the McDonald's and KFCs in the area. I could actually see two other McDonald's and another KFC from where I was standing.

After Dongmen, we got back on the subway to go one stop to our place. We decided to go to Wal-Mart to pick up some extra food for the weekend. Since it's cold, Vi wanted to make traditional Guongdong soup for tonight...I hope I like it. While in Wal-Mart I thought it'd be interesting to get a short video to just show how crowded, loud and busy it always is. After I took the 10 second video, a plain clothed security officer approached me and told me to delete the picture and to not take anymore. Anyways, it's crazy inside that place. We bought a few things and just came back to the apartment to have a lazy end to our Saturday.