WORLD'S WEIRDEST RESTAURANTS

Call it a trippy twist on Newton’s third law of motion (every action always has an equal and opposite reaction), but some people consider eating in a normal restaurant setting a bit odd. They crave the weird, the crazy; the wrong.

In honour of these people we have collated the world’s weirdest restaurants, where food is served in toilet bowls, by monkeys, in the dark, while suspended high up in the sky.

1.MODERN TOILET RESTAURANT, TAIWAN

Although as civilised adults we don’t like to countenance it more than once a year, there is a correlation between eating and the toilet. Yeah, that’s put you off your cheeseburger hasn’t it? In Taiwan, however, they like to make a virtue of this symbiosis. The Modern Toilet Restaurant deals in commode cuisine: food – curry, noodles etc - is served in toilet bowls and its proved so successful owner Eric Wang has opened a string of similarly themed restaurants. What’s even weirder is that in the restaurant’s toilet you do your business on a plate. Honk, honk.

2. DANS LE NOIR, UNITED KINGDOM

The dark is a wonderful invention (it’s not really an invention is it? Ah well, that’s for another time): great for a bit of slap and tickle; a must for horror films and a panacea for headaches. At the risk of sounding like a conservative bore though, is it the best setting for food? The folk at Dans Le Noir, in London’s Clerkenwell certainly think so. With up to 59 other diners, you can eat your meal – which is a surprise, although you can give them rough instructions – in a blackened room. What’s more, the waiters are blind. It’s meant to completely revolutionize your sense of taste. Hifalutin concepts aside, it doesn’t really sound right to us.

3. ITHAA, MALDIVES

The fact that Ithaa in the picture postcard perfect Maldives has only 12 seats and cost $5 million lends it an air of exclusivity from the outset. However, why it makes this esteemed list is due to its setting, 16 feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean. A 180 degree acrylic see through dome is all that comes between you and a dazzling array of stingrays, butterfly fish and creatures, making it the world’s first aquarium-style underwater eaterie. Good weird, but weird nonetheless.

4. DINNER IN THE SKY, WORLDWIDE

Predictably, if there are those that wish to eat lobster thermidor below the ocean, there will be others that want to chow down on steak tartare up in the sky. Enter stage left (or should that be sky dive from the above plane?) Dinner In The Sky. Having originated in Belgium, the concept has been rolled out worldwide. Guests are seat belted to a table that is attached to crane before being elevated 165 feet in the sky where they hover while enjoying a luxurious meal. How odd.

5. IZAKAYA KAYABUKI, JAPAN

Monkeys are clever little critters. A lot smarter than your average human some might say. They certainly think so over in Japan. So much so that Kaoru Otsuka, owner of the Izakaya Kayabuki in Utsonomiya, hires them to work in his restaurant. Well, we say hires, they’re actually his pets. Insert pay peanuts, get monkeys jibe here.

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Jeans

HISTORY OF JEANS

Jeans story begins in the city of Genoa, in Italy, famous for its cotton corduroy. Jean, a fabric of Genoa at the time was actually very similar to corduroy; Genoa browser start using it to cover and protect their belongings on the dock of the weather.

During the Republic of Genoa, jeans have been exported by sailors throughout the European Genoa. "Gen", the French word for Genoa, could be the origin of the word "jeans". In the French city of Nimes, the weavers are trying to reproduce the perfect fabric, but to no avail. However, the experiment, and through trial and error, they developed again and create twill known as denim, literally "de Nimes". Only at the end of the nineteenth century did jeans arrived in the United States.

A young man named Levi Strauss emigrated in 1851 from Germany to New York to be with her brother, who ran a dry goods store. In 1853 he moved to San Francisco to establish business dry goods themselves.

In 1872, Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased rivet fabric from Levi Strauss & Co., a wholesaler of home, wrote to Levi asked to work with him to design and sell clothing reinforced with rivets. Davis idea is to use copper rivets to strengthen the pockets and corners in the bottom of the button. After Levi accepted Davis, both man made and design jeans brands in the United States on May 20 1873.

Denim was produced by American textile producers, but legend has it that the original denim pants were obtained from Nimes, France.

TYPES OF JEANS

1. Slim fit or skinny jean

Smaller size starting from thigh to foot. The opening of the extremities in 9 "to 20" depending on the size of the wearer. Right now it's very popular right now, regardless of the gender of a person.

2. Boot-cut

This type has a flat cut in the thigh and ends legs wide. Perfect worn with boots. The bottom of the foot that extends would make the body look beautiful and longer legs.

3. Buckle back

Tight at the top of the foot. Pieces waist a little loose but behind him was given the belt. Comfortably styled and in accordance with body size but loose the waist.

4. Carpenter / Utility

The big pants as baggy pants and underwear comfortable because it's a more casual and relaxed, depending on the wearer. Pants also has many pockets front side is divided.

5. Loose

Jeans design is quite comfortable because the cut is wider at the back and thighs. Usually the top end of the opening leg will be straight or narrowed.

6. Skinny

Suitable for a skinny person to look stylish. The cutting of the jeans follows the shape of the legs and on the opening extremities are usually cut slim and narrow.

7. Straight Cut

Favored by users who like simple pieces. This is the same pants cut from top to bottom. But it's not a straight 



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HAZE

 Haze is an Atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other dry particles obscure the clarity of the sky.The World Meteorological Organization manual of codes includes a classification of horizontal obscuration into categories of fog, ice fog, steam fog, mist, haze , smoke, volcanic ash, dust, sand, and snow. Sources for haze particles include farming(ploughing in dry weather), traffic, industry, and wildfires.

Seen from afar and depending upon the direction of view with respect to the sun, haze may appear brownish or bluish, while mist tends to be bluish-grey. Whereas haze often is thought of as a phenomenon of dry air, mist formation is a phenomenon of humid air. However, haze particles may act as condensation nuclei for the subsequent formation of mist droplets; such forms of haze are known as ''wet haze.''

The term''haze'', in meteorological literature, generally is used to denote visibility-reducing aerosols of the wet type. Such aerosols commonly arise from complex chemical reactions that occur as sulfur dioxide gases emitted during combustion are converted into small droplets of sulphuric acid. The reactions are enhanced in the presence of sunlight , high relative humidity, and stagnant air flow. A small component  of wet haze aerosols appear to be derived from  compounds released by trees, such as terpenes. For all these reasons, wet haze tends to be primarily a warm-season phenomenon. Large areas of haze covering many thousands of kilometers may be produced under favorable conditions each summer.

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BEST RESTAURANT AT BANGI

Bandar Baru Bangi is now becoming a food heaven with new restaurants mushrooming everywhere in the suburb of KL. You can find a lot of new cafe and restaurants around here.Today, I would like to share with you some of the best restaurant than always full with customer almost all day and night. 

Ana Ikan Bakar Bangi (Section 15)

Heard that this restaurant famous for their 'petai' grilled fish. It was tasty but for some, it might not be that favorable due to strong adore of 'petai'.Salted egg crabs (2 pcs), butter prawns (6 pcs of big prawns), a bowl of seafood tomyam, and a 'petai' grilled kerapu fish, with 2 plate of plain rice only for RM125 but for a student like me we usually just order some basic menu which is fikan bakar (any fish) in a banana leaf with petai and accompanying sauces, squid in butter, King prawns, baby kailan, tom yam soup and steamed rice. It turned out to be an excellent choice and cost us just RM88 for three people. 

Persiaran Kemajuan (Bandar Baru Bangi),

Bangi, Selangor 43650

SUP URAT KETIN(SECTION 7) 

Sup urat ketin is one of the famous food at bangi. This restaurant at Section 7 Bandar Baru Bangi. Quite easy to find this restaurant actually, when you pass the Tol Bangi, first roundabout take a 12 o’ clock way, second roundabout also take 12 o’ clock, same goes to third roundabout also take 12 o’clock way. The price is very affordable. RM7 only for a bowl of sup ketin. Others than sup ketin they also have satay urat ketin. The taste is not bad just fine but if you're satay lover you gonna love it for sure. This two is the special menu there but they also have a nasi goreng, bihun sup and etc. I once try their cheesecake. Taste delicious but not sure its still available or not now. Last i went there about a years ago. 

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Roller Coaster

Roller coasters are amusement rides developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. During the 16th and 17th centuries, rides consisting of wooden sleds that took riders down large slides made from ice were popular in Russia. The first roller coasters, where the train was attached to a wooden track, first appeared in France in the early 1800s. Although wooden roller coasters are still being produced, steel roller coasters are more common and can be found on every continent except Antarctica.

Ranked by height, speed, length, inversions, and steepness, roller coasters are also rated through public opinion polls. Amusement parks often compete to build the tallest, fastest, and longest rides to attract thrill seekers and boost overall park attendance. However, many records do not usually last long. When Magnum XL-200 opened in 1989, it began a new era of roller coasters and increased competition among parks to set new world records. The Magnum XL–200 was the first complete-circuit roller coaster built over 200 feet (61 m). Other notable roller coasters include Formula Rossa which reaches a top speed of 149 miles per hour (240 km/h), Kingda Ka which stands at 456 feet (139 m) tall, Steel Dragon 2000 which measures 8,133 feet (2,479 m) in length, and Takabisha which has a beyond-vertical drop angle of 121°.

KINGDA KA

Plans to build Kingda Ka were announced on September 10, 2004, at an event held for roller coaster enthusiasts and the media. The event revealed the park's goal to build "the tallest and fastest roller coaster on earth", reaching 456 feet (139 m) and accelerating up to 128 miles per hour (206 km/h) in 3.5 seconds. On January 13, 2005, Kingda Ka's tower construction was completed, and on May 21, 2005, the ride opened to the public. Kingda Ka became the "tallest" and "fastest" roller coaster in the world, taking both world records from Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point. It lost the title of world's fastest when Formula Rossa atFerrari World opened in November 2010. Intamin designed both Kingda Ka and Top Thrill Dragster, and the two share a similar design and layout that differs primarily by the theme and the additional hill featured on Kingda Ka. Both rides were built by Stakotra and installed by Martin & Vleminckx

MAGNUM XL 200

The Magnum XL-200, also known as just Magnum, is a steel roller coaster built by Arrow Dynamics at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. When built in 1989, it was the tallest, fastest, and steepest complete-circuit roller coaster in the world as well as the firsthypercoaster – a roller coaster that exceeds 200 feet (61 m) in height. Some have credited Magnum with starting a period in the industry known as the roller coaster wars, in which amusement parks competed with one another at a rapid pace to build the next tallest and fastest roller coaster. More than 40 million people had ridden Magnum as of 2009.

Magnum XL-200 held the title of tallest roller coaster in the world until 1994 when Pepsi Max Big One opened at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the United Kingdom. Amusement Today presented Magnum with its "Best Steel Roller Coaster" Golden Ticket Award for three consecutive years in a row from 1998 to 2000. As of 2014, it was ranked thirteenth in the world by the same publication.

TAKABISHA

Takabisha is a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter steel roller coaster located at the Fuji-Q Highland theme park in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan. It is famous for having a drop angle of 121° – the steepest coaster in the world. The Japanese name Takabisha translates to "high-handed" or "domineering" in English. The name is a pun, in that the three kanji in the name literally mean "high fly car".

Takabisha is a custom Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter roller coaster. The 1,000-metre (3,300 ft) ride begins with a sudden drop into pitch black darkness before entering a slow heartline roll. In just two seconds, the car is launched by linear motors down a 63-metre (207 ft) long tunnel to a speed of 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph). It then exits out of the station building and directly into a large inverted top hat. Immediately following the exit of this inversion the car goes into a banana roll, corkscrew and then two airtime hills. The ride is slowed on a set of block brakes and returns into the station building. The track then turns a sharp 180° turn to the right before going back out of the building and onto the vertical chain lift hill. This hill takes riders up to a height of 43 metres (141 ft). Once at the top, the car slowly inches towards the record-breaking 121°, beyond-vertical drop. Once the car is released from the top of the hill, it hurtles back down towards the ground and enters a dive loop, an inline loop and finally the seventh inversion, animmelmann loop. The whole ride is over within 2 minutes.

STEEL DRAGON

Steel Dragon 2000 is a roller coaster at Nagashima Spa Land amusement parkin Mie Prefecture, Japan. Built by Morgan Manufacturing, this coaster opened, appropriately, in 2000—"The Year of the Dragon" inAsia. It debuted 3 months after Millennium Force at Cedar Point, and surpassed that as the world's tallest complete-circuit coaster. It lost these records in height in 2003 when Top Thrill Dragster opened at Cedar Point. It also took the record for the longest track length—2,479 metres (8,133 ft)—which it currently holds. The ride is the second fastest coaster in Japan and the sixth fastest in the world.

In August 2003, a sheared axle caused one of the trains to lose a wheel. A passenger suffered a serious back injury and a 28-year-old man swimming in the water park pool was injured when he was hit in the hip with the 32 cm wheel.The ride was "Standing But Not Operating" (SBNO) for almost three years and reopened in 2006.

FORMULA ROSSA 

  Formula Rossa is a launched roller coaster located at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Manufactured by Intamin, Formula Rossa is the world's fastest roller coaster with a top speed of 240 km/h (150 mph).The coaster train accelerates to its top speed in approximately 5 seconds using a hydraulic launch system which generates a release velocity similar to that of steam catapults on an aircraft carrier. The initial acceleration from standstill reaches 100km/h in 2 seconds, beating the best commercially available supercar (as of 2014), while allowing riders to experience 1.7G of force. The roller coaster track is 2.2 km (1.4 mi) in length, ranking it 6th in the world for steel roller coasters. Its shape was inspired by the legendary Italian racetrackAutodromo Nazionale Monza. Due to the high air speeds and thus risk of an impact with airborne particulates or insects, all riders are required to wear protective glasses similar to those used during skydiving. Formula Rossa surpassed Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure as the world's fastest roller coaster with Kingda Ka retaining the record of the tallest roller coaster in the world.In its planning stage it was called F1 Coaster.Immediately following the launch, the train ascends a 52 m (171 ft) hill and eventually completes the course reaching a maximum speed of 239 kilometres per hour (149 mph).

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