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Title: Eat in Total Darkness
Post by: TehBorken on Jan 08 07 07:49
 Another whacky Chinese restaurant! Sounds like open season for groping...
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The first dark restaurant in Asia is officially opened on the 23 December 2006. This restaurant, located in Beijing, China, has its interior painted completely black. Customers are greeted by a brightly lit entrance hall and will be escorted by waiters wearing night vision goggles into the pitch dark dining room to help them find their seats. Flashlights, mobile phones and even luminous watches are prohibited while in this area. (//image/DarkRestaurant.jpg)
[/p]The meal will be taken in this environment with the complete loss of vision. By starving one's sense, your other senses are stimulated to full alert – all so the theory goes – and your food will taste like it's never tasted before. In case you are wondering about the washrooms, they are all brightly lit. [a href="vny!://news.xinhuanet.com/photo/2007-01/04/content_5563981.htm"]Link[/a] [in Chinese] [/p]
 
Title: Re: Eat in Total Darkness
Post by: P.C. on Jan 10 07 08:34
By starving one's sense, your other senses are stimulated to full alert – all so the theory goes – and your food will taste like it's never tasted before.

   I think a beautifully plated meal is a sense that I wouldn't want deprived.  It's an interesting concept though.  
Title: Re: Eat in Total Darkness
Post by: Lise on Jan 10 07 08:55
I would do it for the heck of it but yeah, I like to see my food first though. You see what you eat.
Title: Re: Eat in Total Darkness
Post by: tenkani on Jan 10 07 03:04
Up until now, I've never wanted to be a waiter.

Oh, the possibilities...
Title: Re: Eat in Total Darkness
Post by: Lise on Jan 10 07 03:14
I believe the tenakani-san would grope you then serve you later. And not necessary in that order. (//vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/frech/a076.gif)