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| - Maid Cafe's are big in Japan. Cosplay is big, and there's also this odd cute/juvenile fetish. If you have no idea what a maid cafe is, you could walk in here thinking you just walked into a 12-year-old's tea party. There's a high creepy factor here if you don't get the whole cosplay maid thing. The place has pink curtains with flowers and a few cosplay or anime or whatever posters along with J-Pop and K-Pop music in the background and a Japanese cartoon on two TVs. In Japan, space is limited, so everything is more cozy. The place felt a bit too spread out or sparsely decorated or something. It could use more cosplay posters or anime figurines or something. The maid was cute, not Japanese though, but then again most sushi chefs in America are Mexican or Pacific Islander. It's not a big deal. It's like going to the Hofbrauhaus and getting an Irish or Italian waitress, like who really knows the difference right? The maid waitress was super polite and knew some Japanese, and I wasn't sure if that was her natural demeanor or if she was just playing up the whole Japanese waitress demeanor which is super polite and formal. She had that unique Japanese-American accent you'll get if you ever heard an American come back from Japan. It was a bit creepy though, kind of like those pirate waiters talking in pirate lingo.
I'm sure the food portions here are much larger than in Japan. I had the Japanese pizza and omurice (fried rice wrapped in a thin omelette). I'm not sure what they call it here. The photo showed it with hot sauce drizzled over to create a smiling cat face or something, and my one only had lines. I was disappointed by that. The whole point of the maid cafe is that they make funny faces and stuff with the food to amp up the cute factor. My chef was lazy. But the food was excellent. The Japanese pizza is thick cheese over vegetables like broccoli and carrots. Sort of odd but not entirely bad.
Overall, a cool experience as I've never been to a maid cafe in Japan yet. It has a fun, creepy, odd, wierd factor that would make it fun to go with unsuspecting friends who have no idea what cosplay is, just to get their reaction.
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