Diners whet their appetites at flood cafe

This is fine: People enjoying dinner at the Chaopraya Antique Cafe with their feet in floodwaters from the burst banks of the Chao Phraya River north of Bangkok. — AFP

A THAI restaurant has taken dining with a water view to the next level – its customers perch precariously on wooden stools as murky brown floodwater laps at their tables.

Tropical storm Dianmu and heavy monsoon rains have caused flooding in 33 Thai provinces, inundating more than 300,000 households and claiming nine lives.