Wednesday, 27 May 2009
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Dining with the Dead! Would You Do It?
also posted on Tripcrazed
Wanna eat with the dead???
In Ahamadabad, India you can do just that. There is a restaurant called New Lucky Restaurant.
Krishan Kutti Nair has helped run the restaurant built over a centuries-old Muslim cemetery for close to four decades, but he doesn't know who is buried in the cafe floor. Customers seem to like the graves, which resemble small cement coffins, and that's enough for him. 'The graveyard is good luck,' Nair said one recent afternoon after the lunch rush. 'Our business is better because of the graveyard.' The graves are painted green, stand about shin high, and every day the manager decorates each of them with a single dried flower.
The waiters know the floor plan and have mastered the delicate dance of shimmying between graves with a tray of hot tea in each hand. 'We're used to it,' said waiter Kayyum Sheikh. They're scattered randomly across the restaurant - one up front next to the cash register, three in the middle next to a table for two, four along the wall near the kitchen
Alvi said 'We don't have a nice literature of horror stories so we don't have much fear of ghosts"
Would you eat in a restaurant that is a cemetery or would you find it disrespectful?
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Comments (22)
As long as the food was good and cheap enough, I'd eat pretty much anywhere.
I find it a little disrespectful but I wouldnt say no to eating there or hassle anyone who wanted to.
In fact, I'd probably go and try it out! I would just feel uncomfortable the entire time XD
i probably do that when i join their gang of dead.
ha.
I'd find it strange and probably a little creeped out. I'd only want to eat there if the food was something I like.
Sadly, if the graves weren't incorporated into the restaurant, they would probably be dug up and stacked somewhere, forgotten. Leaving them where they are, since they aren't being disrespected (i.e. used as a table or chair), lets people honor them in their own way, as the owner does every day with his flower ritual.
I would most definitely go.
No way! I would puke...
Hells yeah! I mean, fish have sex in the water we drink so why the hell not go eat with dead people?
i think that thy should paint their wall a new color perhaps green and red.....
about the coffins i think their really desecrating the souls of the people buried there i hope they get spooked by it
to the above poster i dont think fish have sex hahah
buuttt no im creeped out looking at that picture!
i actually want to give it a try.
interesting
When traveling I always eat wherever the locals eat and whatever they eat. I am open to just about any experience.
In my culture, we do that. We go to grave sites and drink and eat. There is nothing 'strange' about it.
It seems rude, but I guess it depends on your cultural perspective.
sounds like an experience.
I'd consider it. It might be kind of cool.
Could be interesting.
Wow..that's so weird. I would never do that since I have this intense fear of ghosts and dead people. I don't even to go funerals....
I just think it is SOOO strange. WHO would wannaeat with a =bunch of dead strangers....gross. I'm srry but that has got to be unsanitary...
I'd definitely find it disrespectful unless it complies to the religious principles of the people who live there.
no that's really scary .. and disrespectful.
No, that is disturbing and way beyond odd.