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The controversial Asian export, Magic Restroom restaurant, has closed after just 8 months. Or as Los Angeles Magazine so eloquently put it, "Magic Restroom Café Goes Down the Toilet."

The gimmicky restaurant, which featured Taiwanese food and dessert served to diners while seated on (non-functioning) porcelain thrones while looking at decorative urinals. Yes, that's right, the décor resembled a public restroom…and this is good, why? Clearly, it was not well-received by Americans, however abroad it is a successful concept, Modern Toilet Kaohsiung.

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