Core77

how do they get perishable food up there? Or do they just hunt the local mountain goats?

I wonder how many people have died trying to get this "free lunch". I'd have to be reeaaally hungry to risk my life for a free turkey club.

Yikes! What is the name of the place? Link?

My guess is that there is another route to the top and that the mountain route is for the adventuresome. Amazing photos and place though.

Makes my imagination run wild thinking of building a small stone shelter hidden away behind a rock on top of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hua

This is Montain Hua in China, the most interesting is not the restaurant but to clamb the montain .
This montain have lots of history in the ancient and lots of poet and writer talking about it , also lot of kings go there....it exist in love of poem and novel also .

Read carefully the WIKI then you will discover the extrodinary history , geography , culture of this montain.

And don't forgot go there have the great experience !!

What they dont tell you is that you are lunch for the next guest that make it up there...so there is your steady stream of perishable food.

A friend sent this link which is an account of a man and his wife's hike to these temples along with other info about this fabulous place I will never visit. The photos alone my knees weak and my stomach flip!: http://www.ssqq.com/archive/vinlin27d.htm

Do they deliver?

With my luck....they'd serve congee for lunch.

I hate congee.

The Titre should change , coz it is nothingc connected with the contents, it will Misleading lots of people just thinking about the restaurant.
The architecture in the top is a temple of Daoisme, build in the begining of Qing dynasty,Founded in the early Qing, but smaller shape.After weeks of contemplation over the temple by the sermons in this release, coz his erudition and talent,lots of follower coming ,the incense of the temple become very rich and busy , even more than other temples in the montain ,thus also expanding rehabilitation. Tripitaka building to build, especially the Huashan Taoist Scriptures are the precious wealth of Taoism, 20 year regret that the Republic of China (1932) all of the whole building with all the volumes were destroyed by the fires.Two years after ,the Republic of China rebuilt it , after numerous repairs ,after 1949, another party are continue be repaired.

This building is build with woods and stones , sculpture windows, it composed by two temple,two floors, also have the side hall in the west and east, In the centre of the temple ,there is a sculpture of Marici .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marishi-Ten

I guess the "restaurant " is just a Charity for the temple,it is kind of tradition Chinese culture , there is no real restaurant up there . Try to imagine everybody arrive in the top , they need food ans water of course !!

This mose higher montrain just have one way to the top .

Sorry we're closed! Please come again.

D'oh.

Service was fast and friendly. Food was only so so. Prime rib sandwich was a little overdone and the bun was flaky(day old?). Sadly, only two beers available on the menu. I'd probably go back.
2 stars (out of 4)

This reminds me of that Simpsons episode where there is a Krusty Burger on an Oil Refinery in the middle of the ocean. There is (obviously) no one there, but when a shipwrecked Homer gets there he eats everything in sight.

I'm sure the mountain lions & wildlife around the area are well fed!

Yes, but if you take away the marketing they charge you a ton to do the trek up the mountain then they give you free lunch, you can't just randomly climb up there and expect someone to be sitting around.

......OR CAN YOU???

..you cant.

how do you get down?

i read that the ones that make it to the restaurant are fed the previous group that made it. Then they are held hostage and cooked for the next group that comes along. Restaurant owners just tell the world that they most likely fell off the mountain. True story.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

dude, it's not a restaurant, it's more of a temple where they also serve you food; exactly the way hindu temples are!

I visited several other remote places in China, but not Hua Mountain. If this is like others then porters get paid almost nothing to haul perishables up by hand. Quite often with very heavy loads.

The soup of the day had better be incredible. But seriously, this is like Final Fantasy minus annoying random encounters, and the possibility of actually dying.

Umm, they get food and water up the mountain by having people carry it up the mountain. Not up those little paths you see there though. Pretty certain that the photos are misleading the way they're presented here since I've been there. And while you can climb up the mountain on that path if you have the cojones there's certainly safer paths available too that people carry food and water up on. Most of the tiny paths are just to reach certain viewpoints, etc.

Just goes to show you, there is no free lunch...

How does this restaurant make money? Or function?

Wow-- now I know where I wanna eat tomorrow ;)

But if its true about the free lunch - then how do they stay in business?

do they deliver?

Ok, how do I go back down after the free lunch? The same path I just got there?! I think I will vomit.

Lunch consists of the bodies of the dead people who don't make it all the way to the top, but who only fall to the next lower set of chains and catwalks.

I imagine fast food giants branching out with this restaurant as an example. All McDonalds, Burger Kings, etc. should be as difficult to reach as this place. Obesity? Farewell. Just hope those planks can hold the weight.

Would have been great if some photos of the restaurants interior, views from inside was also there.

I would think the name of the restaurant would be ... "The Last Supper"

This is ridiculous!
I don't believe people really climb this mountain expecting a restaurant on top!!!

Turns out it's a Chili's.

er...i don't think the main aim of the climb is to get to the restaurant, but its a sacred pilgrimage up to the temple. so the title is indeed misleading. But respect to the people who make it up all the way...

Hey, I think I see a Drive-Thru sign between the temple and trees!

C'mon, guys, that's Mount Hua. It's in Wikipedia, for God' sake!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hua

@tgwaste

"how do you get down?"

Simple, how did you get there? ;^)

"Johnny! Get down from there! What do you think you're doing?"
"I'm going to work"

I hiked this mountain last year when I was in china. The article is a little misleading.

The very dangerous -grab the chain or die- path it is only for those who decide to hike the mountain from the bottom.

Tourists just jump on the cable cars and skip that piece along with a 4 hour hike. Once you are on the top, its a little more adventurous than anything you'd find hiking a mountain in the states but not life threatening.

Awesome views from up there :D

I went there. It's called mt Hua Shan in Southern China... and seriously not as dangerous as it seems... Up there is Surreal, like being in the clouds.... So Magic! I highly recommend it even though it's a tough hike.

Shame I did not enquire about the free meals but somehow I doubt it!

i want have a marry there and i thing my wife come there .
but how i can do it for my grand papa.

Wikipedia gives a good overview of the mountain and the area. For non-climbers there is a cable car.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hua

Sorry to disappoint anyone here, but the pictures are very misleading. The plank walk is just a sidetrip near the top of Hua Shan, the mountain pictured here. It is one scary route, but only leads to a little shrine, not the temple seen in the blog. Once you reach the end of the wooden plank way, you have to turn back. But it is one hell of a walk - with over 1000 metres below you! Here is a link to my blog when I did it a couple of years ago: http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shaanxi/Hua-Shan/blog-336006.html

Ben

There's no way I'm going to all that trouble without seeing a shot of their sanitation grade!