Fetish Restaurants Popping Up In Japan

[matcom]

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OL Shabu Shabu Shomuni is a Japanese hot-pot restaurant, but it serves more than just beef and vegetables.

Named after a manga comic book and a short-lived '90s TV show about six Japanese "office ladies," Shomuni features an all-you-can-eat, all-you-can-drink menu served by 15 costumed waitresses who start off dressed like receptionists and end up handcuffing patrons to their tables in sexy police uniforms.

Shomuni is the latest addition to a growing number of fetish restaurants sprouting up around Tokyo.

When maid cafes first started to appear in the back streets of Akihabara around 2000, geeks were finally able to live out their fantasies of being gawked at and served by pretty, submissive girls for a small fee.

Since then, Japan's repertoire of fetish restaurants has expanded to include sukiyaki served by ninjas and sushi eaten off of a blow-up doll's naked body. The phenomenon is traveling, spawning maid cafe openings abroad.

What's so special about Shomuni, then?

"This is the only restaurant where you find servers that give raw strip teases to dining customers," says Yamazaki, the manager of the restaurant.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/sex/0,72749-0.html?tw=wn_index_4

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Seems rather mild for the Japanese.

Considering the butt poking simulator arcade game that came out a few years ago.

[mainegreen]

6. Ummmm, what?

I'm afraid to even google for that.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Butt poking simulator.

It was a big arcade game with a large, blue jeans covered butt sticking out the front. The controller was a large human hand with the pointer finger sticking out. The object of the game was still stick the finger in the arcades easily accesible plastic anus, and control the onscreen hijinks (apparently the expression on a computer animated face) by rapidly inserting and removing the finger.

It may have lost something in translation. Maybe not.

:shrug:

[MonkeyFunk]

2. Just don't

order the bukkake special.

I thought it was eel.

[NorthernSpy]

8. bukkake really IS food, believe it or not...

Bukkake properly refers to food -- usually noodles -- daubed with sauce. But Americans mostly know the word only as slang for something else daubed with something else.


:puke:

[underpants]

3. We made need to convene a conference and discuss rule #4

Rule #4- Do NOT import Japanese pop culture.

We may need to revisit it :evilgrin:

[matcom]

4. GOTTA be better than that dance dance thang

:eyes:

[unpossibles]

5. damn it. I totally had this idea about 10 years ago

I swear my cats are selling my ideas off.

[npincus]

9. Best Theme Restaurant: The Toilet Restaurant in Taiwan

[Forkboy]

10. Popping up is just the start