Service at sword point at "Ninja" restaurant

[Vizth Hal]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100219/od_n...iwan_ninja

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Waitresses wield swords and flare flames at diners, who have to get past a moat before sitting at their table in the dimly lit dining hall.

The same customers are also encouraged to take photos with the warrior-like waitresses, who dress in black or red to look like ninjas in keeping with the theme of a dark but lively restaurant that opened last month in Taiwan's capital.

"The ninja is mysterious," said Ou Chia-wei, owner of the restaurant simply named Ninja, explaining why he chose that theme for the Japanese-style restaurant. "On that premise, we can do magic tricks and light up the food."

Waitresses working the barely lit dining room floor burn specialty menus, which vanish without a trace of ash, and send flames snaking across tables as customers watch.

A moat and screen of cascading water just past the front entrance make customers wait a few minutes until the drawbridge goes up, leading to a dark stairwell toward the dining hall.

There are professional magic shows, as well as cabarets, for those who walk in at the right times.

Ninjas were mercenaries who resorted to unusual warfare strategies such as espionage, sabotage and assassination from as far back as 700 years ago in feudal Japan. They remain a common, enduring theme in Japanese folklore.

[Twilla]

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Sounds like fun but like a disaster in the making. Somebody's got a good chance of getting burned and then suing the place.

[ralgith]

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I already shot poor Vizzy down in IM by pointing out that Ninja were Japanese Assassins... Not Chinese (Taiwan is Chinese peopled, in fact they call themselves the Republic of China). Oh well. Just like a "Chinese Buffet" isn't authentic Chinese food, I'll let this slide as well

[Twilla]

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It said it's a "Japanese-style" restaurant... I'm pretty sure other countries are allowed to eat food outside of their own ethnicity.

[ralgith]

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So? Its still a misrepresentation

But I said I'd let it slide, didn't I? lol

[Twilla]

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How is that a misrepresentation? Would you say that if someone named a similar restaurant that in your area of the US?

[Black Sun]

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I don't see a problem with calling a chinese restaurant "ninja".

It's better than calling it "triad" or "tong".

[ralgith]

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How is that a misrepresentation? Would you say that if someone named a similar restaurant that in your area of the US?

Yes. Misrepresentation because the WOMEN "Ninjas" are Chinese. Nevermind, I'm a purist. Now let it go

[Twilla]

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Oh, I see... you want someone to reanimate real Japanese ninjas to work in the restaurant. Got it. Having zombies working in a restaurant might not pass the health code though.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Vizzy, don't listen to Dylan. He's a geek bully. The last sentence you quoted explains enough.

Ninjas were mercenaries who resorted to unusual warfare strategies such as espionage, sabotage and assassination from as far back as 700 years ago in feudal Japan. They remain a common, enduring theme in Japanese folklore.