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| - Ever seen a Singing Crepe before? Not sure I even understand what that means. Maybe it got lost in translation or maybe it's inspired by somebody's opium dreams. So anyway, there's a karaoke place where you can rent karaoke rooms by the hour in Mesa called the Singing Crepe (?????). So we came here late in the afternoon on a Saturday and there was no one around. We walked into the entranceway and called out but nobody came out. We figured there must have been SOMEONE around because the entrance door was open and some sort of stew was being heated on a table in the entrance lounge area. So I called their phone number and talked to some guy letting him know we were in front of the business and a few minutes later a guy walks out from the back and greeted us all and gave a tour of the place. So we spent a few hours here and had fun. Since the only other place like this I've ever been to and possibly the only other existing place in the valley (do please correct me if I'm wrong :P) is August Karaoke Box I can only make comparisons to that place.
Ways it's better than August Karaoke Box:
1) Seems like a better music selection. They actually had Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, Eagles, and a slightly better Beatles collection. Mind you it was only TWO Zeppelin songs but hey - that's two more than August has!
2) Maybe it's less known than August Karaoke Box so it was really easy to book and there was no other group of folks in there when we started.
3) It's located in a nicer mall than August Karaoke Box.
Way's it's not:
1) Room was not as clean as in August Karaoke Box.
2) Karaoke Console GUI was not as intuitive and easy to use as the one at August Karaoke Box. Also this GUI seemed to have a lot of glitches - songs suddenly skipping to the next one on occasion when nobody did anything to the console. This place has the Console running in Windows. If I remember right the August Karaoke Box console was running on Linux.
3) The whole process here seemed less organized than at August Karaoke Box.
4) Not sure if I'd order food/drink from this place. I mean, where's the kitchen? Out in the entrance area? Holy Health Dept. Batman! There was a glass fridge where we saw a few beer cans - that were expired (yes, Virginia, beer has a limited shelf life). Bring your own. We brought our own drinks we got at the nearby Asiana.
So pricing is about the same as August Karaoke Box. The guy was able to split our costs evenly among all the folks in our group which was very cool so we didn't have to fight about who owed who what later on. Not sure but I think I prefer August Karaoke Box overall but this may be a good backup plan if August is all booked and we still wanna get our karaoke fix. Place is in the mostly Asian mall at the northwest corner of Southern and Dobson. Shares the mall with Saketini, Oregano's Asiana Market, Best Hong Kong Dining, Hodori, Szechuan Express, and Beijing Acupuncture. The entrance is actually between Szechuan Express at the southwesternmost corner of the mall and Beijing Acupuncture. Lots of parking. Also lots of Asian drivers so you've been warned.
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