I think bathrooms in other countries are interesting. They tell a lot about a culture, how clean they are, how social they are, how technologically advanced they are and all kinds of stuff. They are just neat to look at to see the different ways people thought up to do things. My bathroom in Taiwan has all kinds of strange things going on in it. First, the shower is a nozzle fixed on a long hose. The nozzle can be taken off the wall and used to spray all parts of the body in anyway you would like. There is no tub, or shower curtain or anything. The whole bathroom was designed so that it can be sprayed down with the shower hose.
(Shower hose in my bathroom in Taiwan)
There is a nifty little waterproof box that is made to keep the toilet paper dry. I guess if you are spraying your shower hose all over there is a huge potential for soggy toilet paper.
( water-proof Toilet paper holder)
Also, there are 2 flushers on the toilet. One says “da” which means big in Chinese and the other handle says “xiao” which means small in Chinese. So one handle is for large bowl-fulls and one is for small bowl-fulls. I thought this was funny how they used these words to describe the bodily functions. Haha. This probably does potentially save a lot of water and money though.
(Toilet in Taiwan, with flushers. The line with a dot on either side means "xiao" in Chinese, or small. The character that looks like a stick man with its arms spread means "da" in Chinese, or big.)
(Shower hose in my bathroom in Taiwan)
( water-proof Toilet paper holder)
(Toilet in Taiwan, with flushers. The line with a dot on either side means "xiao" in Chinese, or small. The character that looks like a stick man with its arms spread means "da" in Chinese, or big.)
8 comments:
That flusher is pretty cool. I hate that here in the U.S. you have the choice of a low flow toilet or a regular toilet and that is it. This seems like a great solution!
It does seem like a really good idea. It is too bad that in the USA we cannot adopt more environmentally friendly systems like this. I think they will come soon.
Funny thing. Just looking at the toilet photo and not reading the caption, my intuition was that the shorter handle was the small bowl-full. Interesting. Is that just me, or am I programed by western ergonamics and design?
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It seemed strange to me too that the longer one would be for the smaller flush. I would probably think that too if I didn't know the Chinese characters.
It is odd, here at my school they just installed these types of flushes. Only up is for big and down is for small, which to me should have been the other way around since everyone here is used to pressing the handle down for either. but I do like the waterproof box for the tp, living with 3 other guys, I think my place needs it.
Doesn't appear that the handles are for large bowl or small bowl.
The small handle is probably used after the person empties their bladder and the bigger handle after a dump.
Dear Anonymous,
Yes that is exactly what I meant, I just did not want to say pee and poop on my blog....Get it? Small flush for pee and big flush for more than pee....they send out more water in the big flush...less water in the small flush...hence the big bowl of water and the small bowl of water. Maybe we should work on our reading skills a little more here, because I really shouldn't have to explain this.
I liked the toilets in Japan. Not only did they have the same big/small flush distinction (though the ones I've seen there have just one handle - pull in one direction for big loads, and the other way for small ones), but there is often a small faucet on the top. When you flush, clean water flows out of the tap, allowing you to have a quick wash of the hands after you've taken care of business.
Welcome to Taiwan!
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