3/12/2007

Looks like the bug has caught on in Canadian waters. The maids are hard at work serving their masters in Canada’s first cosplay restaurant, iMaid. All the waitresses there are not called waitress but maids and are dress in french maid costumes. The interior of the cafe is black and white but that’s not why it’s hip, it’s obviously the girls that’s bringing in the customers :)

At the iMaid Café in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, the waitresses dress as French maids and address the clientele as “Shang-di” which translates as “highest lord.”

Oooh!

Owner Aaron Wang, 24, who opened the iMaid Cafe last summer, got the idea for the theme after seeing a piece about a maid cosplay restaurant on the television news in China. The restaurant’s “maids” are selected for their looks before they qualify to serve. Among the qualities they should posses, albeit physical, are big eyes, straight hair, young and generally a cute face like an anime character. Hmm… you won’t be seeing any caucasians serving you in there.

Here’s a Japanese version of a Cosplay cafe:

Source: The Star; Infomaniac