cafe – Ramblings of DarkMirage http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com Anime, Games, J-Pop and Whatever Else Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:21:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 Maid Café in Shanghai http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2007/11/27/maid-cafe-in-shanghai/ http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2007/11/27/maid-cafe-in-shanghai/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:05:01 +0000 http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2007/11/27/maid-cafe-in-shanghai/ Continue reading →]]> Don777 recounts his trip to Shanghai where he visited a maid café run by a Japanese owner. The cafe name is @Niaohai (＠ニャオハイ), which is the Mandarin reading for the owner’s surname Toriumi (鳥海).

Niaohai

According to him, the staff generally consists of university students and they do speak Japanese. Also, they will actually sit down to chat with the customers, something you don’t really see in Japan. The décor looks better than most of the maid/cosplay cafés I’ve been to in Japan and the price is about the same: 40 RMB (about 5.30 USD) for a cup of coffee. (About twice as expensive as Starbucks in China.)

The café is located in Jin Jiang Tower, which belongs to a hotel chain that has presence all over China. You can read more on Don’s blog (in Japanese). And if you’re interested in visiting the place yourself:

Shanghai Jin Jiang Tower 6F,
161 Chang Le Road, Shanghai
Tel: +86-(0)21-6415-1188
Email: niaohai55@yahoo.co.jp

The café also has an official blog with a picture gallery. You can also find more pictures and thoughts in this blog entry by a Japanese student studying in Shanghai.

Woot. Meta-blogging!

]]> http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2007/11/27/maid-cafe-in-shanghai/feed/ 18 Singaporean Maid Cafe opening soon http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2006/12/09/singaporean-maid-cafe-opening-soon/ http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2006/12/09/singaporean-maid-cafe-opening-soon/#comments Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:56:38 +0000 http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2006/12/09/singaporean-maid-cafe-opening-soon/ Continue reading →]]> It seems that all the excitement has died down and everyone has forgotten about that maid cafe which was supposed to have opened at Far East Shopping Centre last month. Some people (me being one of them) had already filed it away under urban legend.

Maid
Caution: Maid depicted may differ from real-life

But apparently, according to this forum post on SGCafe (a local anime and cosplay community site), Cosafe Maid Cafe will be open on the 12th this month (next Tuesday). It’s located at 30 Victoria Street #01-11 CHIJMES, which is within walking distance of otaku and fujoshi’s favourite gathering spot in Singapore.

So… uh. Yay!(?)

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