Poop Dessert Cafe to open in Koreatown
Toronto is poised to get its first poop-themed café, set to open in August.
Toronto is joining the (bowel) movement: a poop-themed café is coming to Koreatown.
Poop Café Dessert Bar, which will be located at 706 Bloor St. W., is set to open mid-August.
“I’m trying to make poop cute,” said owner Lien Nguyen, who first came across the concept while visiting her mother in Taiwan a couple years ago.
“We checked out a toilet-themed restaurant and I just loved it. It’s funny to put food and poop together; it’s a great comparison,” she added. “It stayed in my mind for a long time. As soon as I finished school, I said, ‘OK, I’m going to bring the restaurant to Toronto.’”
The recent George Brown College graduate earned her credentials in culinary management. She plans to focus her menu around traditional Asian desserts like patbingsoo (red beans with ice) and is hoping that, through this enterprise, “people will change their minds about poo.”
“[It’s] considered very disgusting, [something] you can’t talk about when you’re eating,” she said … until now.
All of the poo-ticular items available at the café will be brown, formed like a stool and served in toilet-shaped dishes, said Nguyen, who plans to seasonally change up the menu to reflect customer feedback.
While the “latest lavatorial trend” might be new to Toronto, restaurants around the world have already embraced the bowl.
The Crazy Toilet Café opened in Moscow last year, as did the Ddong Café in Seoul and Boracay Toilet in the Philippines. Similar restaurants exist in Indonesia, China and Japan.
Modern Toilet, the restaurant in Taiwan that inspired Nguyen and many other entrepooneurs, has been around since 2004.
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