AFA09 Highlight: Moe Moe Kyun Maid Cafe

When the meido cafe was first announced, I was seriously skeptical about how well patronised it would be.

Being the negative Zylon that I am, I doubted very much if casual fans would pay for a meal that you get at a hawker centre Western food stall at less than half the price or if hardcore otaku would have any money to spare after blowing all their monetary firepower on concert tickets and merchandise.

I'm glad that I was proven wrong. There was a queue all day long for the whole two days.

I also gave in to curiosity and patronised the cafe early on the second day before the queue became a fixture. It was a whopping SGD 25 for a beef burger set that came with coffee/tea but, of course, the main point wasn't the food (which was actually quite tasty) but the meido cafe style greetings and interaction; you could stay at your seat for up to an hour while enjoying your food, chatting with your server and asking for various moe meido type requests like ketchup drawings on your omelette rice and waiting for a photo of you and your server to be printed as a souvenir. Photography was, otherwise, not allowed.

My server Hitomi was the gentle and soft-spoken type which suited me really well since I generally find genki-type people to be extremely exhausting to deal with; I was particularly impressed by Hitomi's excellent command of spoken English (and some Japanese) which is rarer in Singapore than one should expect.

Though I have to say that WRT to the meido whose looks I liked the most, I could not figure out what her name was - she's the one on the right of the headline photo in Danny Choo's farewell post to our glorious democratic people's island paradise republic (and specifically with her glasses and twin braided pigtails. Her voice and English are no match for Hitomi's though. I also found, like SnooSnoo, that it was really difficult to tell who was who based on comparing the portrait shots and the meido zipping around the tables.

By the start of the I Love Anisong concert on Day Two, all items on the menu, except for the beef burger, had been sold out and the meidos were given license to wander the grounds and provide an opportunity for the likes of me to get the above photo.

Overall a good experience for me and, hopefully, a profitable one for the operator and the meidos. The cafe certainly added a much needed element of food, fun and glamour to the event as a whole.

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