World's first Barbie restaurant opens in Taiwan
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Taiwan. Home to the first Hello Kitty-themed café, Hello Kitty aeroplane theme and now -- taking cute perhaps one step too far -- the world's first Barbie-themed restaurant.
Licensed by U.S. toymaker Mattel, Taiwan restaurant company Sinlaku on Wednesday opened the Barbie Café on Zhongxiao road, one of the busiest shopping districts in the capital, Taipei.
The café's decoration, costing TW$50 million (US$1.7 million), is mostly in suitably Barbie-style magenta and pink.
The furniture couldn't be more princess-y -- bar tables look like the heel of a stiletto, chair backs resemble bustiers (some with a tutu) and chandeliers are shaped like elegant teapots and teacups with saucers. Barbie dolls and logos adorn walls and tabletops.
The restaurant also has a gigantic Barbie box allowing customers to step in and feel like a packaged up, life-size Barbie.
Waitresses wear tutus and tiaras while their male counterparts try, mostly in vain, to look like Ken, Barbie's on-off squeeze.
Barbie's abnormally, and anatomically-challenging, slim figure may diminish some appetites. With that in mind, the restaurant menu has been designed by professional nutritionists,There's a calorie chart on the first page of the menu, with calorie data listed alongside each item.
The menu itself is a hodgepodge of offerings, including Chicken toast box, Hazelnut tiramisu, Macaroons in martini glasses, Philadelphia steak salad, Salmon beauty salad and Barbie 128 (a pink drink named after the café's address).
Sinlaku is planning a second Barbie Café in the central Taiwan city of Taichung and aims to introduce one in Shanghai, Wu ke-jing, the general manager of Sinlaku, said in a local media
Sinlaku also operates a Hello Kitty-themed café in Taipei, which opened five years ago. The Hello Kitty restaurant is slightly more expensive than Barbie Café with mains from TW$400 (US$14) compared to Barbie Café's mains from TW$250 (US$8)
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when got ken one?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
when got ken one?
Ken is already there, see second picture
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no no, all Kens.
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the waitresses got figure like barbie or not?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
no no, all Kens.
.....must wait for barbie and ken to break up, then ken can open his own restaurant. Meanwhile, if there is barbie there'll be ken. They're a couple in toyland.
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Originally posted by GHoST_18:
the waitresses got figure like barbie or not?
buey balance lah
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Originally posted by GHoST_18:
the waitresses got figure like barbie or not?
.....from the pictures look quite close to barbie toy.
Anyway watch video here ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09wC4RDGbKo