• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not even that weird for Japan.

    Been to a few maid cafes, only seems fair that lady customers can get their WTFs in too.

  • massive_bereavement@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s called a “butler cafe”, basically the opposite of a maid cafe.

    They haven’t clearly gone through hospitality academy; they brought the wrong spoon for desert and ruined my day.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    1 year ago

    It’s somehow reassuring to see that there is occidentalism in Asia that’s every bit as absurd as orientalism in the West. Westerners get Chinese character tattoos which supposedly mean something spiritual but really are a grocery list, Asia gets T-shirts with nonsense phrases in English. The West gets tropes of the “Mystic East” which mash China, Japan, Thailand and India together into a melange of pagodas and temples, Asia gets stories set in “European” settings that combine England, Switzerland and Venice or something similarly absurd. Europe gets Fu Manchu, Asia gets Bobson Dugnutt. And now this.