One busy day in the shiny Los Angeles in quiet place, where the walls are red, the booths are in semicircle – perfect for chatting with your fiancee and two waterfalls flow silently.

This is not a local café, it is just the opposite – a newly renovated McDonalds created by experts in feng shui, which is the Chinese practice of creating harmony. The designers wanted to make the restaurant harmonic and peaceful place for all the customers. The design reflects the desire of the owners shared by many purveyors to keep customers in their establishment as long as possible.

The place has also a “McCafe” — essentially an outlet for McDonald’s coffee sold at Starbucks prices — a flat-screen television and soft cushioned chairs, all intended to encourage lingering. As well as the use of feng shui and the multiple Asian touches — a vase at the entry filled with bamboo, and red accents galore, among other things — are also nods to the ever-expanding Asian population in eastern Los Angeles, where streets with Spanish names are peppered with stores bearing Chinese-lettered signs and where one of the largest Buddhist temples in the nation makes its home.