The ‘maid cafe’ where customers are spoon-fed

This Chinese pop-up is raising eyebrows.

Maid cafe

Waitresses here wear black and white outfits Source: Visual China Group

A pop-up café which offers spoon-feeding to patrons has opened in China.

The waitresses at this Hangzhou cafe in the country’s east, dress in frilly black and white outfits and provide a very attentive service. Images  show women doing latte art at a customer's table, dancing, and even feeding one male visitor.

Many of those employed are students from the local college.

The diner follows in the footsteps of the Maid Time café that opened in the Chinese city of Changsha in 2011.

Maid cafes are also popular in Japan and one that opened in New York in 2013 drew plenty of attention before closing two years later.


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