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AKB48 Official Cafe – Singapore Soft opening

Eriol Ng — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:10:56 +0000

The first ever AKB48 Cafe held a soft opening for public and major media on 25th June 2011.

At 12.30pm that day, 3 members from AKB48; Takeuchi Miyu [MiyuMiyu], Shimazaki Haruka [Paruru] and Abe Maria [Maria] were there to open the doors from inside the cafe and let the media and guest in for a closed door session.

If you pay a little more attention, you might be sitting on one of the chairs that the girls autographed on.

Public queued outside the cafe and registered their bookings to enter the cafe at 3.30pm for Tea-Time slot.

The timing for the cafe are as follows:

Lunch 11.30am to 3.30pm

Tea Time 3.30pm to 6pm

Dinner 6pm to 9.30pm

Menu and updates can be found at the AKB48 Official Cafe SINGAPORE or AKB48 Singapore Facebook Page for special menus and promotions.

My friends and I queued for the cafe after we got our photosets that day, and managed to secure the first wave of customers to enjoy their meal in the cafe.

Not long after we enter the cafe, the 3 AKB girls had a walk along Orchard Road to give out flyers for the AKB48 3rd Stage falling on the next day, fans are spotted following the girls to give them support and interact with them.

After the girls return to *Scape from their walkabout Orchard, they were invited to the cafe stage to give the first wave of cafe customers a few words before leaving the compound.

The food is generally nice and the service crew are all very friendly. I have personally visited the cafe around 3-4 times after its launch. Its a good place for studying, mixing around if friends and the televisions are always showing AKB related stage performance, music videos or TV programme.

So whats next for the Cafe, if you have a soft lauch that means the GRAND OPENING will be up soon. YES, the grand opening of the cafe will be within the next few weeks and insider information is that more popular members might be gracing the Grand Opening. Do stay tune to AKB48 Singapore Official Homepage for more details.

AKB48 Singapore Press Conference and Shop Opening report

Eriol Ng — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:43:48 +0000

The press conference start out with Mr Shawn Chin, the Project Director of Singapore.

Mr Chin: “We are very honored and happy that Singapore have been chosen for the first overseas place to welcome AKB48 on a regular basis.”

A quick introduction video was played for the media that aren’t familiar with the group.

Mr Chin: “I think the key thing is that Singapore, we are really looking to bring the core idea: “Idols you can meet everyday”.

He also announced that there will be 2 concert days per month for the rest of 2011. There will be 16 members performing each time, there will be their sister groups; SKE48, NMB48 and SDN48.

The first concert for the Theater Singapore had received very good response, with online ticket sales being sold out in just half a day.

An artist impression was shown on the TV screen of how the AKB48 café, scheduled to open at *scape third storey in end of Jun 2011.

The welcome video of the members were shown to the media, and shortly after the arrival of the girls onto the stage.

Misaki Iwasa introduced herself in English and a few lines in Japanese. “I’m very happy to be here today and get closer to the Singaporeans, and from now on we will have many concerts here in Singapore, we hope many of you know more about us.”

Komori Mika was next. “This is my second visit to Singapore, I would like to know more about Singapore, and I’ve decided to study English harder. Nice to meet you!”

Miho Miyazaki. “Lets have fun together! This is my first visit to Singapore, and from now on not only AKB48, you will see SKE, NMB as well as SDN. So please have fun together.”

A media Q and A session was held and as follows.

Q1. The single “Beginner” was number 1 on Oricon Chart last year, do you feel that you want to repeat this feat this year?

A1. Miho: Yes, of course. We have a stronghold that more and more people will know about us. So we have be releasing a lot of single ever since “Beginner” and we always try our best.

Q2. There are many Japanese here, including expatriates (person living in a different country from where he or she is a citizen). What message do you have for them?

A2. Komori: There might be some Japanese here in Singapore that they might not know us. So from now on, we would like all Japanese here also know us.

Miho added: We would like the Japanese people here to have fun with us.

Q3. Question for Miho: This is your first time in Singapore, two of your other group members have been here before. What did they tell you about Singapore and what do you look forward to in Singapore?

A3. Miho: Actually I did some research about Singapore, and the main thing was actually Merlion, but I heard that its difficult to see Merlion now. I’m looking forward to trying Singapore local food with the staff and friends here.

Q4. What are your thoughts of the Japan earthquake and did it affect you and family

A4. Komori: My family are all fine, thank you very much for your concern.

Miho added: As AKB48, we started a project called Dareka no tame ni (誰かのために) which means what can I do for someone. We started a lot of projects to support the people that have been hit by this tragedy.

The press conference ended after a short photography session for media.

We were invited down to the AKB48 Singapore Official Shop of the Opening of the store.

Here are some photos I would like to share with everyone.

Girls at the door.

1 and OPEN!

making themselves feel at home

Wasamin signed her board and so had the others.

the girls at the cashier counter

The signboard and decoration you will first see as you enter the shop.

Products

back to the girls, As media gather outside the cashier window, the girl pose for us. It will certainly melt you!

Thank you for reading. Hope you will enjoy the first AKB48 Singapore Theater Show later!

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AKB48 SINGAPORE UPDATES

Eriol Ng — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:00:30 +0000

The updates are up!
50 / per is not so bad

Miss Clarity Cafe

Kippei — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:07:01 +0000

Just notice this cafe a few months back with its ads stuck near the bus-stop of Bras Basah. On my mind, maybe just another cafe. It just happened that today, Wasewase-chan decide to give this cafe a go. Here is the website.

Location is partly obscure but not hard to find. The entrance was appealing though, + points. In we went, the decor is somehow budget and one look can see its all from IKEA with one mini hi fi blasting noise. Noise being unable to hear whats it is playing. The layout is kopi-tiam style and the setting is narrow lane and close quarter. Staff is quite responsive but waiting time can be long if theres a lot of people. It can get a bit noisy in there when we have to shout over the din but we don’t mind it for a reason later on.

Heres the menu.

I ordered chicken ballotine but they ran out of ballotine(what is a ballotine anyway), therefore anyhow eyeball one dish which I forget until it came to my table later on. It is the Fish Cordon Bleu with cheese and ham in between 2 fish. Portion wise is there, not too small either. Testing result: Nicely well done and not over cooked. Crisp on the outside, tender in the inside. The taste was kinda heavy due to the cheese and actually got full midway. After that is desert, 1 scoop of ice-cream.

1 appetizer + 1 drink + 1 main course + desert = $11.80

Best of all no +++. No GST, no service charge. Still okay when we still have to pour chilled water ourselves. Will become the next will-go place next to Carls Junior. Highly recommended.

CONS: Never open on a Sunday

*Will wait for pics from Wase-chan*

Some in depth link reviews:
http://thebakerwhocooks.blogspot.com/2005/08/miss-clarity-cafe.html
http://www.aromacookery.com/aromacookery/2007/10/miss-clarity-ca.html
http://skinny-epicurean.blogspot.com/2006/03/miss-clarity-cafe.html
http://singapuradailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/03/miss-clarity-cafe.html