Lazy Sunday afternoon

One more thing I saw on Sunday...I went to the Taipei City mall, an underground shopping mall that seems to have been left behind by the more trendy shopping areas. It's still pretty crowded, though. Women seem to go there to shop for inexpensive shoes, clothes, jewelry and health foods. Young men go there in swarms to hang out at the tv game shops. There are a couple dozen of these shops, where young guys are buzzing like bees to challenge each other at the Wii or X-box games standing outside each shopfront. Another group can usually be seen sitting and playing PSP games on the floor, trading tips and whatnot. It's one way to beat the heat, I guess. I guess it's not so different from the malls in the US except that in the US, somebody would have kicked over the Wiis, stolen the x-boxes and started a brawl in the hallway. Anyway, the interesting thing was the Otaku maid shop. I'd heard about these places, especially in Japan, where guys go and get served food and whatever else by women dressed in french maid outfits. But I'd never actually seen one. From looking in the window, it looked pretty tame to me. Granted, the maid outfits looked pretty good, but most of the guys seemed to be gamers playing, like, Magic or some fantasy robot card game while they got tea and chit chat from the maids. Fair enough. Whatever floats your boat.