Cabbages & Condoms

This is no clever title...it's the name of a restaurant in Bangkok where we dined during our trip. A little background....

From their website: Our restaurant was conceptualized in part to promote better understanding and acceptance of family planning and to generate income to support various development activities of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA). Their motto is "our food is guaranteed not to cause pregnancy." That's excellent. I was just going to say, waiter, I'm concerned about just that!


The gent that started this restaurant wanted to make condoms as easily accessible as cabbages (which are VERY accessible). Instead of mints, they give each person a condom! They have lights and decorations and costumes all created from condoms. It's a very fun, lighthearted environment that has actually done a lot of good for Bangkok. 


Naturally, as Christians, we believe that sex shouldn't occur until marriage, so we're not supporting their cause as one of sinful indulgence. Rather, this restaurant's goal is to teach the community about safe sex practices so that diseases won't spread as quickly and so adults would have less children (the founder was concerned about the prevalence of AIDS and overpopulation problems). Especially with a sex trade as well "developed" as Bangkok's, this restaurant's plight is light in deep darkness. But, on a lighter note...

We thought it was a riot! What an entertaining restaurant! Right up there with Casa Bonita...(that's for you, Colorado!)