Maid Café in Shanghai
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).
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.
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November 29th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Oh my, what is that on the center lower left? Even I could wear a maid outfit and look more womanly than that.
January 19th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
there are ugly chicks in almost every maid cafe across asia along with japan, its not just this one. u just don’t see those pics usually on the websites.