My eating habits have taken a turn for the bizarre. In the interests of blogging and curiosity, I ate at a toilet bowl themed restaurant. Yes, you heard that correctly.
Knowing that I was soon to be heading to Europe and the land of relatively un-themed restaurants, I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to visit my first themed restaurant in Asia – aptly named “T-Bowl” in Melaka.
I wasn’t foolish enough to think that the food here would be anything great. Anywhere that prides itself on serving food out of small porcelain toilet bowls is hardly going to be of Michelin-starred standard. But I was craving a sweet dessert and figured that we couldn’t go too far wrong with a dollop of ice cream….could we?
The restaurant itself was smaller than I had expected and is decorated in the style of a bathroom, so everything is very white and quite sterile. The menus are large, cardboard and garish in style and the waiter handed us an order slip on which we had to write down which numbered items from the menu we’d like. I’m not sure if he did this because he couldn’t speak very good English or if this is part of the “theme”. Either way, we choose our ice cream sundaes and filled out our slip. My dessert came out first, almost ridiculously fast (although I would never criticise anyone on speed of service) and served in what appeared to be a baby’s potty.
The ice cream itself tasted more like frozen yogurt. It wasn’t unpleasant, just not very creamy. The marshmallows were stale and chewy and the waffle underneath the ice cream was hard.
Scott ordered the vanilla/chocolate ice cream combo dessert, which disappointingly didn’t come served in any kind of toilet bowl dish (didn’t they know that that was the only reason we had come?!). The addition of cornflakes to the dish was an odd choice, and again his ice cream tasted more like frozen yogurt, but overall the dish actually wasn’t that bad. There were also a couple of coffee chocolates on the plate which seemed an odd addition, but as they tasted like Ferrero Rocher, we snaffled them down.
The desserts here were never going to amaze us. We came here mainly to experience the unusual theme. Having said that, they were no better or worse than you would find on many pub and grill restaurant menus – average and fulfilling a sweet craving, but not entirely satisfying.
Overall I would say if you have young children or love a good themed restaurant (quality of the food aside) then you will probably love this place.
If you follow in our foodsteps:
- T-Bowl Resturant is on Jalan TMR 10, Taman Melaka Raya and is surprisingly open until 11.30pm every night.
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