Mang Gorn Luang (The Royal Dragon)
Thursday, 29th September 2005 by Alex Turnbull
These red-gold buildings in Bangkok, Thailand, make up the Mang Gorn Luang (the Royal Dragon), the largest restaurant in the world. The restaurant covers 33,500 m2, has over 1,000 staff, and accomodates 5000 guests. The servers wear roller skates, use speedboats to cross the large decorative ponds and fly on ziplines from upper levels to lower ones, while the kitchen is capable of turning out 3,000 dishes an hour!
And despite all these huge numbers, apparently the restaurant fills up completely by mid-morning. Typical!
Thanks to Matthew Sz
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That is sweet. I’ve seen pictures of it in the Guinness Book of World Records. What amazes me the most is the zip-lines, that must be very strange to see.
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where do they park?
Man, I’m on a roll, aren’t I? Three submissions, two in one day! =)
For parking: if you look on the north side of the building, you can see that 3 acres of the complex are devoted to a huge asphalt parking lot.
I actually first read about this restaurant in a Nickelodeon magazine about six years ago. They had a picture of the ziplines, it was rather cool… the waiters have to use one arm to hang on, while balancing platters on the other hand. I hope they’re trained well enough that they don’t drop the food!
I think that large building to the west is the BITEC building…
I hope they turn out more than 3,000 dishes an hour, for 5,000 guests. Given the number of dishes at a typical Thai meal, you’d be there all day to get your fill!