It should really have been a little corner of Akihabara in Toronto Canada. But even though iMaid Café is the country’s first and only, it happens to be very — Chinese. Don’t bother looking for sushi on the menu, it isn’t there:

“iMaid Café is more of a Chinese-Canadian twist on a Japanese theme than a Japanese themed restaurant. Chinese music and TV plays in the background, the menu features bubble-tea as well as traditional Chinese food and North American food.”

Don’t think I’ve ever heard of a Chinese maid cafe before, but Japundit readers may be able to shed some light on this phenomenon. I suppose we should be happy to have one at all to relieve the tedium of Canada’s perpetual snows, but it sure is a little different from the original (and yet still basically the same):

iMaid Café caters to a majority Chinese clientèle, so rather than using the traditional Master by which waitresses generally address their patrons at Japanese maid cafe’s, the waitresses at iMaid Café address their clientèle with Shang-di, a traditional Chinese appellation. Literally, Shang-di means “god” however it doesn’t infer that the clientèle are gods, but rather that they are receiving service fit for a god.

Via Anime News Network