A Gigantor super-fan opened up a Chinese restaurant in South Korea called “Tetsujin Chinese Restaurant“, which houses his personal collection of of giant robot memorabilia, old plastic models, board games, and radio controlled vehicles.
So basically, its a Japanese-themed restaurant serving Chinese food in South Korea.
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Vancouver, Canada is home to EXP Restaurant + Bar, a video game-themed restaurant that features giant screens showing gameplay and a menu with items such as the Triforce Burger (actually grilled into the beef), Chrono Chicken Bites and the Chocobo Chicken Burger.
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Who cares about the menu when a restaurant and cafe is really just a massive display of film memorabilia? The food might be fantastic, but I’d go to CW Restaurant in Daegu, South Korea just to drool over the owner’s massive collection of statues, prop replicas, toys, and more. They all belong to Woong Cho. He decided to open the restaurant attached to a museum so he could share his collectibles and passion for movies with the world.
The restaurant houses everything from Star Wars memorabilia to Pixar (he has a custom Wall-E) to Disney to Harry Potter to Marvel. Yeah, it’s a geek’s dream. Frankly, it’s hard to wrap your head around how many items there are and how much it all must be worth.
Apparently, you can just go to the museum on the third floor for a $3 fee without eating at the restaurant downstairs.
Check out several images of the collection after the break.
Tim Harris has Down’s Syndrome, but that hasn’t stopped him from conquering his dreams. Tim is owner of “Tim’s Place” in Albuquerque, which is billed as “The World’s Friendliest Restaurant”. In addition to serving breakfast and lunch, the establishment also dishes out heaping helpings of hugs, which Tim describes as “the best part.”
Check out the video after the break, which will work wonders for brightening up a crap day or renewing your faith in humanity.
A Tokyo-based French restaurant called ” Ne Quittez Pas” (“Please Don’t Leave”) decided to turn dirt into a $110 delicacy by offering a “dirt course” consisting of a potato starch and dirt soup, salad with dirt dressing, aspic made with oriental clams and a top layer of sediment, a dirt risotto with sauteed sea bass, dirt gratin, and dirt ice cream.
Rocket News recently tested the food and described the taste as “delicious” and “divine”, noting that a dirt flavor was absent. However, the obvious question is whether this stuff is safe to eat. According to Saeko Torii, a rep from the dirt manufacturer Protoleaf, “the dirt is called Kuro Tsuchi and it’s volcanic ashes mixed with soil and plants from the Kanto District in Japan. It has good bacteria, healthy minerals, and is natural and pure.” But that likely won’t help dirt food land on U.S. menus.
Dirt isn’t regulated for human consumption so it’s hard to know the effects it would have on a person,” says Rebecca Scritchfield, a Washington, D.C. based registered dietitian. “Food gets its nutrients from soil, but one does not eat the actual soil. What’s more, countries have different safety regulations—people in Scotland eat sheep brains but that’s not allowed in the U.S. Protoleaf says their soil is safe to consume but is it safe to eat by American standards? We don’t know because we don’t really know what’s in it.
Whatever the case, Japan was recently developing food from human turds, so the use of dirt is actually a step up. Hit the jump for additional pics.
Monteroza, who owns a izakaya restaurants like Shirokiya and Wara Wara, has a new promotion at several eateries which grants discounts to patrons who share names with Neon Genesis Evangelion characters.
if you have the same family name as one of these characters, you can get 30 percent off. If you have the same first name, you can get 15 percent off. If you exact same name, you can get 50 percent off. If everyone in your group has Eva names, then you get 77 percent off!
The promotion runs until November 30.
(via Kotaku)
The latest in my long list of reasons to go to Japan is this Thunderbirds Cafe located in Tokyo. If you’re lucky enough to dine there, you’ll get to watch episodes of the show that play on a continuous loop while checking out all the cool props. They’ve got replicas of the vehicles as well as rare collectibles on display. It’s the ultimate dining destination for Thunderbirds fans.
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Eva Restaurant on Beverly Boulevard in L.A. is offering customers a 5% discount if they check their cellphones at the door, keeping you off the device for the duration of your meal and giving you the hands-free convenience of shouting at the person at the other end of the table instead. Chef and owner Mark Gold created the offer as a method of avoiding distracted dining:
“It’s really not about people disrupting other guests. Eva is home, and we want to create that environment of home, and we want people to connect again,” he said. “It’s about two people sitting together and just connecting, without the distraction of a phone, and we’re trying to create an ambiance where you come in and really enjoy the experience and the food and the company.”
In that case, screw phones. Restaurants should offer a 50% discount to people who got a babysitter instead of bringing a tiny tear and sh*t machine to a meal.
(via Mashable)
If there’s anything that makes Yelp reviews more entertaining, it’s when they’re read dramatically by celebrities. Here, Chris Kipiniak of “The Good Wife” and “Law & Order” reads Dalia B.’s one-star Yelp review of a New Jersey diner.
“I ordered the broiled crab cakes, and they were really good,” Kipiniak says searchingly in his mystified interpretation of the Yelp review. “And I called and asked if I could speak to the supervisor, and the girl that answered the phone wanted to know what it was in reference to.
“I told her it was regarding the food I ordered,” Kipiniak continues. “And she said, ‘What was wrong with it?’ And I said, ‘Nothing, I just wanted to let him or her know that it was good, and then she was like, ‘OK hold on.’”
Check out the rest of the story after the jump, and prepare to laugh.
