This relaxing Japanese restaurant floats your food to you
Conveyor belt sushi restaurants are nothing revolutionary in Japan. These kaitenzushi restaurants are ubiquitous in that country. However, when your food floats to you on water, the dinner theater aspect gets even more fun.
Donguri restaurant in Numazu City, Japan, serves mainly parfaits, sundaes and other desserts in wooden tubs that are floated to diners down a water-filled counter.
RocketNews24 says this practice honors Japanese traditions, "There’s the summer custom of catching 'Nagashi Somen' or 'Flowing Noodles' with chopsticks from water-filled bamboo poles, and imperial courtiers once enjoyed writing poetry while sipping bowls of sake that flowed down streams as part of the 'Kyokusui-no-utage' or 'Meandering Stream Banquet Party.
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After ordering at a self service machine (ordering via machine instead of from a human server is also popular in Japan), the diner clips the order ticket to a clipboard in a wooden tub then sends it on a watery voyage. When the tub with the order is ready, a white marker with the name of a Japanese city (each seat has a marker) lights up and you know the food-boat headed downstream is for you.
People are enchanted by the restaurant and it's easy to see why.
Eating and travel go hand in hand. It's just not often the food that does the traveling.
(h/t: RocketNews24)
Sarah Spigelman Richter is a contributor to Mashable's Food channel. Sarah covers everything edible, from the food industry to D.I.Y. recipes. She was previously the community manager for Tastemade NYC and her writing has been seen on The Today Show's food blog, Refinery 29, the Food Network, and Gothamist. She has also developed recipes for Tabasco and other nationally recognized brands and has blogged for 5 years at "Fritos and Foie Gras." Sarah is obsessed with "Orphan Black" and chili-cheese Fritos and is still depressed that Loehmann's closed.
