Could Feng Shui play a role in supper Clubs? I don’t know, but common sense should and why take chances.
First of all what is Feng Shui?
Feng Shui also known as geomancy, is a pseudoscience originating from China, which claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment.
So for supper Clubs if we are going to “harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment” we should definitely think about seating arrangements. It makes sense to:
Four Feng Shui (Or common sense) – seating arrangement rules:
- Pair people that you think will enjoy each other’s company
- Seat people following the line from the old movie (Seams Like Old Times) where Goldie Hawn seats people by saying: “Boy, girl, governor, girl”
- Don’t seat spouses next to each other (I know my wife has heard my stories way too many times)
- Separate people you know have issues with each other.
Do I believe in Feng Shui? While I’m not sure, I certainly wouldn’t take any chances. I ran a company in the Philippines. It was the Franklin Baker Coconut company. We owned a housing compound in the city of San Pablo about 60 miles from Manila. The compound dated back to the 1930’s during the American colonial era when the company was run by American expats who lived with their families on the company property.
In 2005 the land was very valuable situated in the middle of the city. A Chinese retailer “Walter-Mart” (A real company with good trademark attorneys (?)) made an offer to buy the property contingent on having their Feng Shui expert survey the land. Feng Shui is very important to Filipinos.
The Feng Shui guy walked through the property and when he got to the swimming pool he stopped saying he sensed “pained spirits”. He asked if there used to be a cemetery there. The Franklin Baker people told him the truth which was that while there was no cemetery, the story was that during WWII the Japanese had used the pool as a prison. They put a steal plate over the pool and several Filipino prisoners had died there. The deal to sell the property was off and I don’t take chances with Feng Shui. You can’t make stories like this up.
One of the highlights of Filipino cuisine is the abundance of amazing seafood. We had a plant on the southern island of Mindanao that was right on the bay. Local fishermen would catch these huge prawns the size of lobster tails. One of my predecessors once commented when seeing the size of the prawns that he knew why the rest of the world called prawns shrimp.
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