Chucking Chickens

24 May 2016
When I went on my jungle trek, one of the guys, Luke, told me about a restaurant in Bangkok that catapults chickens through the air. They do what? He proceeded to tell me all about the restaurant. I was hooked. Now I just had to find someone to accompany me to this chicken chucking charade. Lucky for me, my friend Carl was incredibly enthused by the idea of aeroborne poultry, so we decided to give the place a go. This open air chicken chucking restaurant is called Kra Thon and it's located off the Udom Suk BTS. When we first arrived we were seated at a table right in front of the metal ramp that houses the catapult as well as the unicycles. We ordered an entire "chucked chicken" for 140b (that's the equivalent of $4USD). We watched as the gongs clanked, the chicken was lit on fire and placed in the catapult. From the other side of the ramp we saw the unicyclist begint to peddle. Before we knew it the flaming chicken was flying through the air. The cyclist picked up speed and caught the bird with ease. Then, the bird was delivered to our table. To make things even better, because we had ordered a "chucked chicken", we were invited onstage to take photos atop the unicycle while holding speared chickens and donning a chicken helmet. Could things get any better than this? Yes, they could. Each person who ordered a "chucked chicken" was also given a complimentary clucking rubber chicken to take home as a souvenir. This was one flying food phenomenon that was going to be hard to beat!