Did you know there’s an immersive café that lets you quite literally experience being birth, life and death all at once? You’ll find this unique experience at the Kid Mai Death Awareness Café in Bangkok, and like the name suggests—it’s got everything to do with life and death.
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The immersive experience lets visitors go through a 30-minute exhibition that showcases the full life cycle of a human life. From being inside the “womb”, to simulating a real birth by exiting through a larger-than-life vagina opening to be “born” into the world. After which, you can try experiencing life as an “Elder”: dressing up with body weights, a wig and cane, and even lying in a hospital bed in the ICU.
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Finally, experience your own “death” as you lie in an actual coffin, and there’s even a funeral set up where people can pay their “respects” too. There are also other eerie death-themed and uncanny elements: like skeleton displays, a Death Village, an “organ” display, life-sized human mannequins and more. After the strange experience, you can head to the all-black café for some interesting themed drinks (from 120 baht): like Birth, Elder, Painful and Death.
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Entrance to the Kid Mai Death Awareness Café is priced at 500 baht per person (~$20 SGD per person), which includes the 4-stage interactive exhibition and 1 drink at the café-bar. We’ve yet to experience this café for ourselves, so we can’t tell you if it’s gimmicky; but reviews of the place say that it’s an experience that makes you contemplate the meaning of life, and it’s not just another “spooky” attraction.
Kid Mai Death Awareness Café
Address: 1191 Phahonyothin Rd, Phaya Thai, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
Opening Hours: 10am-7pm daily
