Would you eat food served in toilet seats at Indonesia’s Jamban Café?

More restaurateurs are setting up toilet-themed dining establishments, with The Magic Restroom Cafe in Los Angeles, California, one of the first. The latest to join the trend is the Jamban Café in Indonesia where diners sit on toilets and eat from coloured loo bowls.

More than just to look different from the usual restaurants with traditional seats and bowls, Jamban Cafe on Semarang, Java Island, has an objective. It wants to educate people about sanitation, reports Daily Mail.

Budi Laksono, the café owner and a public health expert, does not only serve Indonesian dishes such as bakso – a meatball in murky soup – and alcohol-free cocktail from toilet bowls. He also uses the ambiance to discuss with diners the importance of the toilet for other body functions and show them videos.

Jamban, which means toilet, opened in April and accepts only small groups which book in advance toilet seats. Laksono wages the unique campaign because of the high rate of open defecation in Indonesia due to the large number of local who live below the poverty line and do not have toilets at home. However, open defecation is a main cause for the spread of diseases.

The 52-year-old entrepreneur shares that because Indonesia is an Islamic country, the use of toilet bowls to serve soup and cocktails is considered by some critics as improper and breaching Islamic law. One Facebook user says serving food in toilet bowls is uncivilised and disgusting, reports Skynews.

Other toilet-themed restaurants include the Crazy Toilet Café in Moscow which uses small bathtubs and urinals as crockery, and the Poop Café in Seoul with faeces-looking flushes and a tree decorated with poop-shaped paper. There’s also the Merton Restaurant in Taiwan, seen in the video below.

VIDEO: Bizarre Toilet-Themed Restaurant

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