Chinese Wonderland

I now know there is an Asian restaurant in northern Idaho (next to a very nice lake) that has a koi pond inside the bottom floor. There are chinese lanterns hanging everywhere and all the furniture and woodwork in the room are bamboo. Awesome atmosphere. The koi pond is a wide circular ribbon like a lazy river and the middle island contains room for several more tables, accessed by a little bridge. It was really neat! I got to sit next to the fattest part of the pond/stagnant river and a turtle sat next to me on a rock with big koi and some little goldfish swimming all around him. If I ever build a generic Asian cuisine restaurant, it will look just like this. The only difference is that I'll serve regular clumpy rice instead of the dry fluffy American stuff that you can't eat with chopsticks. The fluffy stuff was actually a menu item, which is really bizzare for asian cuisine.

I guess that was the "Hey! We're in Idaho!" part.

I'd probably pump the water in a circle really fast and over some rocks and a little waterfall so people could watch the koi jump like salmon. That would probably be neat during supper.






Either that or they'd just kinda tumble over the falls as they're whisked around the river... "Mommy! What's THAT?"