Please Don’t Step On The Fish! Vietnam’s Unique Flooded Cafe – Design You Trust

Please Don’t Step On The Fish! Vietnam’s Unique Flooded Cafe

Animal cafes where you can enjoy a hot cup of coffee and pet cute animals like cats, dogs or even sheep have been springing up all over the world, but Amix Coffee is the only cafe in the world where you can relax as dozens of decorative fish swim at your feet.

More: Facebook h/t: odditycentral

Located in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, Amix Coffee features two flooded floors filled with hundreds of fish both small and large. They are both insulated with two layers of plastic tarp and furniture legs are wrapped in cotton to minimize friction and prevent damage to the tarp. Each floor covers an area of 20 square meters and the water level is up to 25 centimeters deep. In order to gain access to these man-made ponds full of colorful fish, visitors are required to take off their shoes and clean their feet. They can then enjoy a wide range of refreshments and snacks as Japanese carp and other small fish swim at their feet.

Amix Coffee is the brainchild of 23-year-old Nguyen Duoc Hoa, who wanted to take the concept of animal cafes to a whole new level. However, making her idea a reality wasn’t the easiest thing in the world. Flooding the first and second floor of the Amix Coffee building with around 10,000 liters of water and keeping it clean at all times proved challenging, but he eventually came up with viable solutions.

The cafe uses a triple filtration system to keep the water crystal clear at all times, and pumps that change between a quarter and half of the water on each floor to maintain optimum conditions for the fish. However, preventing patrons from stressing the fish too much has proved much more difficult.



If you want more awesome content, subscribe to 'Oh, Design You Trust,' our brand new Facebook page! Trust me, you won't be disappointed.

More Inspiring Stories

Stunning Photographs Of A Glacier In The Karakoram Region Of Pakistan
The Golden Age of Flying: A Look Back On Air Travel In The 1950s And '60s
Impressive and Tiny Villa on Dunbar Rock Opens in Honduras
This Couple Builds A Portland Tiny-Home, Lives For Free And Endlessly Travels In A VW Bus
Surreal Abandoned Building From Kamchatka
Huge Bikini Snow Show As Russians Mark The End Of The Skiing Season
Photographer Captures Ireland's Essence In Gorgeous Green Sceneries
Japanese Photographer Atsushi Morioka Releases the World's First Photo Book Focusing on Fish Faces
Wonderland Abandoned: The Swift Fall of “Europe’s Biggest Theme Park”
Capilano Suspension Bridge, North Vancouver, British Columbia
My Fucking Restaurant Is Open For Business In Barcelona, Spain
Thousands Ditch Snowsuits For Swimming Cozzies As They Hit The Slopes At 'BoogelWoogel' Russian Ski Festival
Western United States In The 1960s: Colorful Life In The American West 50 Years Ago Through Amazing Found Photos
Fiji's Awesome Floating Bar And Pizzeria
Yup, We've Found The Most Terrifying Church In The World
Otherworldly Pictures Of Northern Iceland
Man Takes the World’s Most Impressive Selfie. You Gotta See How Far He Climbed.
“Toro de Jubilo” - Fire Bull Festival in Medinaceli, Spain
The White Frontier: Female Photographer Captures Beautiful Images Of Canada's Most Remote Regions In The 1900s
A Real-Life Yellow Submarine for Rent
Tam Coc - Bich Dong
Glass Beach: Where Nature Has Turned Pollution Into Beauty
Breathtaking Views Of The World That Will Make You Dizzy With Wonder
Walking On Frozen Baikal, The Deepest And Oldest Lake On Earth To Capture Its Otherworldly Beauty