Monday, 25 May 2009

• Dining with the Dead!! Would You Do It?

  Wanna eat with the dead???
  
  

  
  

  
  In Ahamadabad, India you can do just that. There is a restaurant called New Lucky Restaurant.
  
  Krishan Kutti Nair has helped run the restaurant built over a centuries-old Muslim cemetery for close to four decades, but he doesn't know who is buried in the cafe floor. Customers seem to like the graves, which resemble small cement coffins, and that's enough for him. 'The graveyard is good luck,' Nair said one recent afternoon after the lunch rush. 'Our business is better because of the graveyard.' The graves are painted green, stand about shin high, and every day the manager decorates each of them with a single dried flower.
  
  The waiters know the floor plan and have mastered the delicate dance of shimmying between graves with a tray of hot tea in each hand. 'We're used to it,' said waiter Kayyum Sheikh. They're scattered randomly across the restaurant - one up front next to the cash register, three in the middle next to a table for two, four along the wall near the kitchen
  
  Alvi said 'We don't have a nice literature of horror stories so we don't have much fear of ghosts"
  
  Would you eat in a restaurant that is a cemetery or would you find it disrespectful?

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