Taiwan may be a comparatively small place, but it's well known for a few things: incredible eats, incredible technology, and the best Little League World Series teams this planet has ever seen. We're experiencing the best of those first two this week at Computex, and since we were all the way over on the other side of the planet, we couldn't help but stop by the Windows 7-themed eatery that opened up for just a couple of months surrounding the nation's only hosted consumer electronics show of this magnitude. The place, as we were told by the one and only Andy Yang from Engadget Chinese, is Taiwanese through and though. It typically goes by 100 Seafood, but for a couple of months it has been transformed into a 64-bit dining location with Windows 7 wallpaper, stickers, banners, and even mugs. Each day there's a special menu item that sells for just NT$77 (around $2.38 in the US), but considering that said special was some form of intestines on the evening that we showed up, Engadget and company sprung for dishes with a bit less relation to the digestive system. In all seriousness, the grub hit the spot after a long day on the trade show floor, and the take-home mugs for us media folk made the journey even more worthwhile. Now, to see if the lid closes over if we don't activate the thing in 30 days...
Take a trip to this magical place yourself in the galleries below, or do one even better and jump past the break for a video!
Does the kitchen have to shut down every few hours and reboot. Seems like if they are making a windows restaurant that would be par for the course.
If it was a windows Vista restaurant it would just never be open. Or a waiter would keep coming out asking you over and over again if you really wanted the soup.
Yeah so what kind of camera was used to shoot that video? It was gorgeous-- rich colors, no stuttering, not very shaky, and didn't have ANY noise or digital artifacts despite being shot in a relatively low light situation!
It's a weird lil thing to notice, I know. But to be carried around so easily like that, the device must've been pretty smallish and fit into a hand (or two) well. Any ideas? I WANT!
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posted June 3rd 2010 9:04PM
...And these CEOs are getting paid how much to give us uninformed information?
@Shadow08
Oops, wrong article, lol. This was supposed to go to the HP smartphone one.
Did you find the girls?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/caption-contest-windows-7-themed-restaurant-serves-64-bit-grub/
one day..
the restaurant might find themselves having more rivals =X
I want to go there!!!
While you are in Taiwan, you have to also have dinner at Modern Toilet...
http://www.moderntoilet.com.tw/en/store.asp
@Gregorian I went there last year. It was amazing! When do you get to eat out of a toilet bowl while sitting on a toilet bowl!?
lol only in Asia could they pull that bullshit off
it doesnt look like the restaurant will last long, way before the M$ lawsuit
@htd
It is sponsored by MS, marketing in Taiwanese way.
Does the kitchen have to shut down every few hours and reboot. Seems like if they are making a windows restaurant that would be par for the course.
If it was a windows Vista restaurant it would just never be open. Or a waiter would keep coming out asking you over and over again if you really wanted the soup.
@lukewind
LOL! Best comment of them all. "Order or cancel?"
That was a good joke, they went for a 32-bit so everybody would be compatible.
@frod27 Ha, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it - it was an awesome place.
Just wait a couple of hours and itll crash
Mon the Hoops!
Where are the Microsoft Surface tables?
That's one restaurant i would NOT want to go to.
You skipped out on the tripe??? Wasnt that the whole point of going to begin w/?
Those restaurants are OK. Usually the worst thing about them are the foreigners with cameras walking around going "zomg isn't this quaint?"
Yeah so what kind of camera was used to shoot that video? It was gorgeous-- rich colors, no stuttering, not very shaky, and didn't have ANY noise or digital artifacts despite being shot in a relatively low light situation!
It's a weird lil thing to notice, I know. But to be carried around so easily like that, the device must've been pretty smallish and fit into a hand (or two) well. Any ideas? I WANT!
How about a steady cam next time so I don't get motion sickness!
Thanks.
did the restaurant have 7 windows?
what happens to someone that brings in a Mac?
do they do spam too?
going to taipei for a month in july. SUPER PUMPED