Bistro "La Lusty Geisha"

"Experience the city's premier bistro, La Lusty Geisha! Featuring the Big Bonsai, nature's favorite form of bondage. Serve up your own BBQ, Asian-style! Enjoy some Tempura, always a hit with the ladies. Or try oiling up your very own 'rusty' Geisha Girl!"

- Level description text

The Bistro "La Lusty Geisha", shortened simply to Bistro in the level selection screen, is the second level of Asian Town and the fifth level of MadWorld overall.

Description
The Bistro is a very linear level set inside a building in Asian Town, though it is far too large to be an actual bistro. Its size and interior is more fitting for a hotel. The name "La Lusty Geisha", as well as the level description text and various comments of Howard and Kreese imply that it might be a brothel. However, this also could be just a marketing stunt by the DeathWatchers in order to spice up the level a bit.

When Jack Cayman enters the Bistro, it is currently under attack by ninjas who are holding the geishas captive. Jack will free all three of them during the course of the level, which doubles as a DeathWatch Challenge. Every geisha will completely restore Jack's health upon being rescued.

Sections
The "La Lusty Geisha" is divided into distinct sections. Once Jack moves on to the next section, he mostly cannot go back to a previous section. He also has to first clear a section before he can go to the next one.

Entrance hall
The entrance hall is where the level begins. It spans four floors, though only the first one is accessible at the start. Its walls are decorated with paintings of geishas, and a small pond with a bridge sits in the center of the room.

Right at the start a ninja can be seen abducting a geisha and retreating to the lounge.

The entrance hall is visited again after the kitchen, this time in the third floor. Jack then ascends to the fourth floor and exits it to the Japanese garden.

The second floor is never accessed.

Lounge
The lounge is accessed after the first flight of stairs. It is a large room with lots of ninjas. One of the sides is open, providing a view on the rocky cliff and its cascading waterfalls outside. It also contains a smaller room in the back with a Mayhem Dispenser containing the Spear and some more ninjas.

The most prominent feature in this room is the tree with four sharp branches on which enemies can be impaled. If Jack impales an enemy on every branch, the tree will bloom and Jack will receive 80,000 points.

After clearing this section, the first geisha is rescued.

Tengu's room
This is the section where Tengu is fought for the first time. The arena is a room surrounded with shōji walls inside a larger room with Rose Bushes on its walls. Jack will face Tengu one on one.

Jack is ambushed by some ninjas in the corridor leading to this room.

Kitchen
The kitchen's centerpiece is the a frying pot sitting atop a blazing fire. Enemies that are thrown into the pot are instantly killed and fried, turning them into tempura. Those enemies can be thrown onto a serving tray. By ringing the bell next to the tray, the food is served and points are awarded, depending on the amount of food served at once; the first piece served on the tray is worth 1,000 points, while each additional piece is worth double the amount of the previous one.

Serving 500,000 points worth of food is this level's third DeathWatch Challenge. Serving at least three pieces of tempura opens a Mayhem Dispenser with a Jack Balloon.

After clearing this section, the second geisha is rescued.

Japanese garden
Outside the building is a roof garden inspired by Japanese rock gardens. The floor is covered in sand in which lines are drawn. Near the walls are various rocks, lanterns and paper umbrellas that can be used as improvised weapons.

This is also the section where this level's Bloodbath Challenge, Hanabi will take place.

This section is where the third and last geisha is rescued.

After that, an infinite number of ninjas will spawn here, so Jack can earn more points should he still not have earned the required 2,250,000 points for unlocking Shogun. Also, once Jack reaches 2,750,000 points, another Tengu appears here.

Shogun's arena
After ringing the boss bell, an elevator will transport Jack to the top floor of the pagoda. The arena is inside a room decorated with samurai armor and riddled with wooden pavises and arrows stuck in the floor, giving it the aesthetics of a medieval battlefield. In the back is a wide folding screen, behind which Shogun is waiting.

The arena will catch more and more fire as the battle against Shogun progresses.

The rooftop
The rooftop is the highest point and the final area of the level. Once Shogun's health is fully depleted, he will retreat to the rooftop of the pagoda he is fought in, followed by Jack. All that is left to do for Jack is to finish Shogun and complete the level.

Trivia

 * The Bistro is the only level with a DeathWatch Challenge that cannot be missed during the course of the game.
 * The Bistro is also the only level that requires Grunt Enemies to be killed after ringing the boss bell.
 * Furthermore, the Bistro is the only level with a temperature below freezing.
 * The Bistro is one of the few levels in MadWorld to be completely linear, the others being the Red Line Highway, the Sanctuary, the Tower, and the first part of Central Station.
 * There is also a glitch when serving tempura, that occasionally one enemy is worth 1,000 points more than it should be.