This past weekend, I discovered one of the many finer points of Taiwanese culture: KTV. You may be wondering, what is KTV? Let me explain: it's a better version of Karaoke. There are KTV's all across Taiwan in which basically you rent a private room and get full control of a karaoke machine just for your own private group. You rent the room for 3 hours and it includes food in buffet form outside.
I'm waiting for this idea to catch on in the States because frankly, it's genius. Even the most timid of your group will get up and sing at least one ballad because you can bring your own liquor in with you (a standard in almost all of Taiwan) and there is no one in the room to laugh at you but your own friends, so why not?! There is also the added bonus of eliminating the uncomfortably long stretches one must go at a regular Karaoke bar in which strangers try to Mariah Carey the mic.
Yes, this is my friend Kate and I singing Mariah Carey, "Hero." I Mariah Carey'd the mic this time.
that sounds AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletethey totally have this in NYC in... one of the Asian sections, can't remember where we were... and I couldn't convince my friends to pay for ittt! So jealous!
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