I'll Have the Soup, Salad and a Side of Hot Gay Teen: The "Edelstein Boarding School"
We've always wanted to go to Japan. People are actually quiet and respectful on the subway. And their toilets are to die for! But now we really want to go Japan...
Tokyo now has a cafe where lip-glossed men dressed as schoolboys serve their female-only clientele.
The "Edelstein Boarding School" is one of several roleplay-themed restaurants based on manga comics. This one is based on a '70s cult classic about pretty boy-boy love at a German school--a theme apparently a lot of Japanese gals go ga-ga for. It's not unlike the popular slash-fiction genre, in which women writers take their favorite male characters from pop culture, turn them gay (or at least curious) and put them in saucy scenarios for a mostly female audience. (Lo tried her hand at this once on Nerve.com, writing a "lost chapter" from The Goblet of Fire in which Harry Potter and Ron Weasley get it on in the common room while Hermione looks on under the invisibility cloak through tears, but the Potter Empire's lawyers made her take it down.)
It's one thing to anonymously write and/or read man-love stories on the Internet; quite another to live out that fantasy with real-live people over noodles. We just can't see something so scandalous taking off here in the States (hello? Women who are into teenage boys who are into the love that dare not speak its name?!). The closest we get to that kind of mainstream roleplaying with food here is Hooters ("the barely legal girl serving me Buffalo wings is soooo into me") and The Medieval Manor.
Sure, Edelstein isn't the most tasteful business endeavor, but it's a refreshing change from all the bars and restaurants with short-skirted@#$%tail waitresses and nary a hot, hairless mama's-boy waiter in sight. Two tickets to Tokyo, stat!
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