{"id":940,"date":"2007-11-02T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T09:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/02\/boys%e2%80%99-school-cafe-in-harajuku\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T21:57:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T13:57:36","slug":"boys%e2%80%99-school-cafe-in-harajuku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/02\/boys%e2%80%99-school-cafe-in-harajuku\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Boys\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 School&#8221; Cafe in Harajuku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone enjoys a spot of non-authentic afternoon tea in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curemaid.jp\/\">Cure Maid Cafe<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailish.jp\/\">Mai:lish<\/a>, but apparently letting pretty girls serve you hot beverages is simply not good enough for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fujoshi\"><em>fujoshi<\/em><\/a> in Japan. They want cute boys instead. The nerve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shibukei.com\/headline\/4756\/\"><img src='http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/02_boys_school_cafe.jpg' alt='Boys\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 School Cafe' style='width:400px; height:300px;' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to fill this market demand, some consulting firm decided to open a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shibukei.com\/headline\/4756\/\">Boys\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 School Cafe<\/a>&#8221; in Harajuku that hires real male students to serve as waiters in school uniforms. The main customer base is women around 20 to 30 years old. The menu is the usual overpriced semi-Western (but not really) fare found in most maid and cosplay cafes, i.e. <abbr title=\"11.30 USD\">1,300 yen<\/abbr> for an unappetizing plate of pasta or Japanese curry and <abbr title=\"2.60 USD\">300 yen<\/abbr> for a cup of soft drink. The shop functions as a cafe in the afternoon and a bar at night.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafe-edelstein.com\/top.html\">Cafe Edelstein&#8217;s official site<\/a>. I wonder if they get any male customers?<\/p>\n<p>&#91; Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shibukei.com\/headline\/4756\/\">Shibuya Keizai Shinbun<\/a> &#93;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone enjoys a spot of non-authentic afternoon tea in Cure Maid Cafe or Mai:lish, but apparently letting pretty girls serve you hot beverages is simply not good enough for the fujoshi in Japan. They want cute boys instead. The nerve. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/02\/boys%e2%80%99-school-cafe-in-harajuku\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[660,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}