Diners flock to water-logged Thai riverside restaurant

Customers of the riverside Chaopraya Antique Cafe enjoy themselves despite the high water levels in the Chao Phraya River in Nonthaburi, near Bangkok, Thailand (Sakchai Lalit/AP)

A flood-hit riverside restaurant in Thailand has become an unlikely dining hotspot after fun-loving foodies began flocking to its water-logged deck to eat amid the lapping tide.

Now, instead of empty chairs and vacant tables, the Chaopraya Antique Cafe is as full as ever, offering an experience the canny owner calls “hot-pot surfing”.