
Restaurant has optical illusion seating, taking diners on a trippy bus tour of Bangkok — without leaving NYC
NY Post
This restaurant offers a lot of Bang-kok for your buck.
Many venues aim to “transport” people to another country, but Bang Bang Bangkok is bringing Thailand to them. The Brooklyn-based fine-dining depot invites customers to eat their way around the Thai capital without leaving Gotham — thanks to immersive projection technology.
In a trippy twist, Bang Bang is modeled after a bus with windows and benches on which customers sit, and a travelogue of tourist-worthy footage is projected onto wrap-around screens inside the restaurant, conveying the ideas of a jaunt through Bangkok.
As a result, bus “riders” digitally whiz around the Thai capital for two hours on a VR voyage. Enhancing this sensory sojourn is Bang Bang’s 10-course tasting menu — approximately one sampling for each stop on the tour.
Bang Bang, located at 131 Grand Street in Williamsburg, is the brainchild of serial restaurateur Jugkrwut “Jay” Borin, known for Brooklyn’s Mao Mao and Jai Sang Ma in Queens.
“I don’t do the restaurant business. I do the experience business,” Borin, 45, told The Post. “I can refer you to another world.”
