Evening at a maid cafe

A couple days ago I went with my friends to a Halloween event in a local tea house. I've never been there before and the only thing I knew about the place was that their staff was dressed in cute costumes. The cafe itself was located in a humble alley in the city, and it was easy to walk past it even with navigation. The cafe was a modest size room, charmingly decorated with not only Halloween decor but also dragon motifs, which are probably the usual decorations. We were sat by a small table in the corner - it was a bit too small for three, but seeing how busy the cafe was we didn't complain - our seats were very comfy and there was a cherry tree painted on the wall right behind us. 

We're used to overpriced drinks in the city, so when we ordered 3 teas, we expected to get 3 teacups. So my surprise, we received teapots instead. Almost 3 litres total - sweet! I ordered cinnamon apple, while my friends had jasmine and dragon tears (which I think is also a type of jasmine?). They were all delicious, although jasmine aroma made my head hurt a bit. 

The staff had a double role as both waitresses and entertainers, hosting games and quizzes for the guests. There was even a PowerPoint presentation about Japanese ghosts. We did pretty well in a guessing game and won a couple of eye-candies. There was also a game of pouring tea into cups in wacky positions, but we could barely keep it from spilling on flat surface so you can imagine how that went. By our table there were small bits of colouring paper left for guests, so drew together while drinking. After we took the paper, a man who was presumably the owner walked past us and called to one of the waitresses "See? I knew someone would like it!". I made a small drawing of Amelia the pumpkin maid, since it seemed appropriate, and left it with the money. :3

Now let's talk about the toilet - because it was noteworthy as well. The walls were covered top to bottom with quotes about tea written by many people, presumably the staff. Some of them were in Chinese and Arabic.
The lights were automatic, separate in the stall and in the sink area. Which meant that when I was to leave, I opened the door and saw a woman in black and white standing in the dark, her white eyes looking into mine... For a split second. Before I jolted. The lights turned on and she started to sheepishly apologise for scaring the crap out of me. Turns out it was one of the waitresses, who had full-white contact lenses for her maid cosplay. Spooky!

We could draw fortune slips at the door as we left. They were folded into neat star shapes. My slip said "Life is not about waiting out the storm, but learning how to dance in the rain". In contrast, the other two slips said "Don't eat paper!" and "Tie your shoelaces! >:c". I'll make sure to take all of the advice to my heart.

In the end I had much more fun than I'd expect to have and I hope we can go there sometime again. Here are some photos that I've made! I don't have any pictures of the staff, obviously. That would be kind of creepy.

The teapot and teacups had a nice texture to them.   There were some interesting quotes, this one says "I like tea -me". 

Note to self - 'mochi' is uncountable. We expected a couple of them, and split a single one between 3 people.

Thanks for reading!