maid cafe – Ramblings of DarkMirage http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com Anime, Games, J-Pop and Whatever Else Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:18:22 +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 My national TV debut http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2007/01/17/my-national-tv-debut/ http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2007/01/17/my-national-tv-debut/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:26:04 +0000 http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2007/01/17/my-national-tv-debut/ Continue reading →]]> All 0.3 seconds of it!

Channel U recently aired a TV special covering the new cosplay maid cafe that just opened in Singapore last month. I was there on New Year’s Eve when they took some of the footages and was caught by the camera pan in this frame!

Channel U

You can watch the video yourself after the jump, which includes an interview (in Chinese) with LianYL. LOL! LOL! LOL! Video is in Mandarin Chinese (or as close as it gets in Singapore).

The video was ripped by daffodilistic from #SGAnimeBloggers @ irc.rizon.net. Please don’t sue me, kthx. BTW, check out my spanking new YouTube Director’s account!

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