At the Ka Tron Restaurant, in Bangkok, Thailand, food is handled like heavy artillery. Its famous fried chickens are set ablaze and launched from a massive catapult at unicycle-riding waiters who catch them on metal skewers. How is that for dinner and a show?
Popularly known as the “Flying Chicken Restaurant”, Ka Tron proves a great gimmick really can make up for average food. Hardly any of the dishes served here are prepared in a truly unique way, they are just your run of the mill Thai recipes, but it’s the way they are served that sets this place apart from all the other eateries not only in Thailand, but the whole world.
The chicken is carried out on a silver platter not to the diners, but to a long platform raised a couple of feet above the ground in the middle of the outdoor dining area, and set on one of the several metal catapults.
A waiter riding a unicycle makes his way to the platform and stops a few feet away of the loaded catapult. As he struggles to keep his balance and concentrate on what comes next, the edible projectile is set on fire and launched from the medieval artillery device. The chicken soars through the air and most often than not lands on metal skewers the waiter holds in both his hands, in his mouth and on his head.
No big deal, eh! Pattaya, where we used to live has a chain of "Flying Vegetable" restaurants famous for its Pak Boon Fy Dang. Pak Boon is a green veggie prepared in a wok with chillies and fish sauce. When it's ready, the cook lifts the wok and hurls its contents up to 20 feet away to a waiter with a plate who usually catches it.
Fun to watch unless he misses and you happen to be sitting next to him in which case duck, not chicken, is a verb instead of a noun!
See ya, eh!
Bob
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