Bizarre in Bangkok: Maidreamin cafe and restaurant
This post fits perfectly in the category: remarkable. And actually also in the bizarre category. A new restaurant in Bangkok based on a Japanese concept: Maidreamin. In other words, a restaurant where cute Thai girls who dress up as a 'maid' work.
Of course something like that fits in Japan where there are entire websites with uniformed schoolgirls, waitresses, maids, etc. You will have such a fetishism…
Dream?
Bangkok now also has to believe it. The restaurant concept originally from Japan will perhaps focus on Japanese customers? But if it is also your dream to see a waitress walking around dressed as a maid, you can go to Gateway Ekamai at Soi Sukhumwit 42.
When you arrive you will be greeted by two girls who will then guide you to your table. Do you want to take a picture with these ladies. then you have to pay for it. The establishment is open daily from 11:00 AM – 22:00 PM. You can see more information and photos on the Facebook page. It is certainly not cheap, so that will deter many Dutch people from going there.
What is your opinion about this?
What do the readers of Thailandblog think of such an initiative? Is this very sexist and demeaning to women or just innocent fun? Give your opinion.
Well, if this is already sexist and demeaning to women, then there is more sexist and demeaning to women in Thailand. I think it suits this country.
Have (obviously) heard it said that there are countless go-go and other bars where the sisters of these ladies walk around in the same maids and school uniforms.
I know Thailand is very prudish, so a Thai is less likely to think of sex when seeing a maid in uniform than men from Europe.
Go to Chiang Mai, there they walk in a German restaurant in Tyrolean outfits, that doesn't look good at all, and when I see it, I don't make any connection with a Tyrolean sex film.
When I was in Thailand for the first time in 1998 and strolled through Chiang Mai, I ended up at that German place. Essen wie zu Hause was written on a sign. And indeed, in front of the door was a Thai lady in a Tyrolean suit und mit ein lederhosen (how do I spell that?). Really no face, or rather a pitiful face. Have eaten a large piece of meat and drunk a mug of beer. That again. One cheers!
The ladies are neatly dressed, what is sexist or humiliating about that?