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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Tenshi no Cafe 天使のCafe, e@Curve, Mutiara Damansara

Okairi Goshujin-sama means Welcome Home Master in Japanese. Hearing these words might be every otaku's dream. What's more, they will be able to see real life people dressed as French maid and butler to serve them in a cafe that is designed as if it came out of a manga or anime.

While previously one can only find these kind of fantasy cafe in Japan or Taiwan. Recently it seems that someone has brought this concept to Malaysia. I got to know about Tenshi no Cafe 天使のCafe which means Angel's Cafe in Japanese when I read Jason Mumbles' post on it. I also bought the group buying promotion from Hahah Deals, which will get me a package worth RM83 for only RM38. Two meal, two shakes and a dessert. Because there's more than 50 deals purchased, so there's a bonus of RM3 worth of “Spoon Feed – 3 spoons” and Choice of “Conventional Games” or “Playstation 3” for one round worth RM5.


maid cafe
From outside, Tenshi no Cafe looks like a home more than a cafe.


One of the house rule is no photography of the maid, food and interior. I kindly asked permission from the kawaii lady butler, so the only thing I cannot take with my camera is the staff there.


The ten house rules.


The interior is very bright with pink as the main colour. It looks very clean and comfortable. There is one area where there's a PS3 and a HD TV showing a Japanese group's MV.

maid cafe interior


Since the deal is enough to feed two person. I invited Emily to join me to discover this maid cafe concept that is new in Malaysia. But luck is not quite our side because we came last Saturday during lunch time and there are no maids but only butlers were there. According to the kawaii lady butler, the maids took half day leave to attend a cosplay event at Tropicana City Mall. Quite obvious that most of the staff here are also enthusiastic cosplayer.


Emily Sook Ying

From the deal, I can order one dessert, I chose Banana Split. Quite a while I didn't eat Banana Split already. My mistake is that I didn't ask it to be serve after the main finished. It was served first. Sigh.

banana split
Banana Split

Emily and I shared the banana split after we finished our mains. I should have left the choco stick for the maid (actually is the kawaii lady butler) to spoon feed me. Well, just the ice-cream and banana will do, so I got spoon fed by her on each flavour of ice-cream starting from chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. Emily just kept laughing during this spoon feeding session. One scoop is worth RM1, if you are interested to experience it. Go read Jason's post for the total experience captured on camera because he got invited to do a special review hence can take picture of everything.


Japanese fried rice with Ebi Tempura
Japanese fried rice with Ebi Tempura


We can order one dish from the Japanese Rice section and another dish that is worth not more than RM19.90. Since, Emily chose Japanese Curry Chicken Katsu Rice (RM 19.90). I'll have to choose Japanese Fried Rice with Ebi Tempura (RM 19.90) from the limited Japanese Rice section.

The fried rice has a lot of Edamame beans, tasted quite good too the fried rice. I suspect that the Ebi tempura is not fried in a oil that is hot enough because some the bread crumbs is still not quite cook yet.

Japanese Curry Chicken Katsu Rice
Japanese Curry Chicken Katsu Rice (RM 19.90)

While my fried rice is nothing to shout about, Emily absolutely love the Japanese Curry Chicken Katsu Rice from presentation to taste. She told me it tasted much better than Full House's Japanese Curry rice. So, it's not only the good service that is provided here, the food here also taste not bad.

After, finishing our meals. It's time for some exercise. Which, I utilize the 1 round of PS3 game service. Again, I'll play PS3 motion game with the kawaii lady butler and not maid. The maids are not back yet. Actually 1 round of game means 5 minutes. I was able to play 3 different short motion sensor games with the lady butler. She kicked my ass by winning two games out of three.

maid cafe interior

The butlers and maids here are very polite and friendly. Ask them any question and they will politely answer you. There's one question that you cannot ask though, that will be their phone number :p If they are not too busy, they will sometime stay for a short chat with the customer. In term of service, I'll give it 10/10, ambiance 8/10 and food 6/10.

Well, before we left the place, we manage to see two maids that finally start their shift. If you are interested in the maids' picture, click here. Overall, this is a RM 38 well spent. Too bad it doesn't include a polaroid photo with the maid of my choice, which will cost RM 8.


tenshi no cafe

Address:

Tenshi no Cafe
LG18, e@Curve
No. 2A, Jalan PJU 7/3, Mutiara Damansara,
47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan.

Other Ppl's View:
Jason Mumbles
Jerine Lay
I Am the Witch



Tuesday, May 17, 2011

周杰倫 Jay Chou's Songs ala Acapella by PennYo

I came to know about PennYo, a Chinese acappella group from the University of Pennsylvania. When Dan Zhang, one of their member emailed me to ask me help spread the word about their group since he got to know from my blog post that I am a Jay Chou's fan.

I listen to some of their covers on 周杰倫 Jay Chou's songs that they did in acapella (They called it Jay-cappella). Hey, they are great. I think if Jay Chou got to listen to their job, maybe they can collaborate on a song.

Here's one that PennYo did, which is a medley on Jay Chou's songs 霍元甲, 夜的第七章,and 飄移.




PennYo: Fa Ru Xue 发如雪 (Jay Chou A Cappella Cover):




While 淘汰 is not sang by Jay Chou but it's written by him for Eason Chan, whom is another great singer that I like even before Jay Chou's debut.




While they did a lot of Jay Chou's song, it doesn't meant they only do Jay Chou's song. There are a lot of other Chinese songs that they did an acapella version, like of my my all time favourite, 新不了情.




Last that I'll share here is one of my favourite Jay Chou's song, 安静.




There are a lot of acapella groups out there that do covers of English song but it's quite rare to find an acapella group that do cover on Chinese songs. I subscribed to PennYo. Hope they will get more popular and will be able to stage a tour to Asia, especially Malaysia.

You can subscribe to PennYo's YouTube Channel for more of their amazing acapella covers.



Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Static! Oh Static

When I work night shift, I don't have to wear formal office attire to work. It will be either collared T-shirt or round-necked T-shirt with jeans or slacks for me. I have one Hewlett-Packard F1 collared T-shirt and a Nikon T-shirt with a zip in the middle. What both T-shirt have in common is that both are made of polyester and this cause a problem.







Don't get me wrong, I'm not allergic to polyester in fact I'm quite comfortable wearing T-shirt made from polyester material. Comfortable just as long as I'm not sitting in a wrong full of PCs. When I'm working, I have to sit in a room with at least 50 PCs running 24/7. Just one hour sitting in the room wearing my HP or Nikon T-shirt, I will feel very uneasy. This uneasiness can't be explained, it's just that like you just have to get out from the room.







At first, I still am not sure what is wrong with me. Then one day I went to the toilet to do my business, and I accidentally touch my HP T-shirt with the steel pipe. It created some static sound. Sound that you hear when you touch a metal and suddenly you felt an electric shock, it won't kill of course. Lucky is that I didn't get shock but just felt a lot of static around the T-shirt.





I took off my T-shirt and place it close to the steel hose and guess what? More static sound, I can even hear static sound when I took off my T-shirt. I move the T-shirt around the steel hose until I don't hear any more static sound. I put on the T-shirt back on and I don't feel the uneasiness already, I even felt lighter.




After this experience in the toilet, every 2-3 hours I'll go to the toilet, take off my T-shirt and 'de-staticise' it. Nowadays, if there's a choice I will not wear T-shirt made of polyester to work. Cotton don't have this kind of problem. I read that some where that too much static in the body is not good for health and wearing polyester 'trapped' the static. Oh my god, does this mean that my T-shirt is killing me softly slowly?






P.S. I'm not sure whether it will be safe to use the petrol pump when wearing clothes filled with static. Scary.