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A Japanese style maid-cafe has opened in Scarborough, Ontario. iMaid Café was launched by Aaron Wang, a 24-year-old Chinese student of Economics at York University.
The iMaid Café is believed to be the first maid café in Canada, according to theStar. The concept and main difference of this café with other normal café/restaurants is that the waitresses who work here wear a special costume, and they are black intriguing miniskirts, long socks and white aprons. Being the main attraction of customers, these costumes are usually worn by people who are farmiliar with the concept of cosplay which originated from Japan. Wang ordered the costumes from Japan at a cost of about $200 CAD each.
Wang wanted to open a restaurant that would be different from other traditional Hong Kong and Chinese restaurants in Toronto, a cosmopolitan city where two million of the 4.6 million people are foreign-born. The largest minority group is the Chinese population, which is 410,000.
“I want people to come to the restaurant and to feel like home,” he said, adding that about 70% of his clientele is Asian. So rather than using the tradional "Master" by which waitresses generally address their patrons at Japanese maid cafe's, the waitresses at iMaid Café address their clientèle with "Shang-di," a traditional Chinese appellation. Litterally, "Shang-di" means "god" however it doesn't infer that the clientèle are gods, but rather that they are receiving service fit for a god.
The iMaid Cafe, which serves a mix of Hong Kong, Taiwanese and Western food, is situated in Toronto’s Scarborough suburb, about a 30-minute drive from Toronto’s city centre.
Comment: I think
cosplay is fun, but replacing the term "master" with "shang-di" is awkward.
Source:
comipress,
yamaki_anime,
ANN
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本帖最后由 Phi_Nono 于 2007-7-8 20:33 编辑 ]
