Astoria can fulfill you
While looking for a hairdresser saloon, I came across Karaoke SHOUT, a place I could see by the sidewalk through the glass window used mostly by hairsaloons.
I took a second peek and thought it of a “special bar”. I don’t know if I can explain it well this special bar thought…
Sooner than I thought, the hair saloon looking-like place turned into a sexy something places to me.
I had a flash back of a peep show shop I visited nearly ten years ago near Times Square, in the theater district. It is not that these places don’t exist anymore. Mainly tourists or horny lonely workers walk in this ragged reddish shop through explicit XXX video tapes to reach a hall with several doors were they can either release tension themselves or ask for assistance that come via an inch whole in the wall.
My curiosity to walk in there was such that my inability to speak English didn’t hold me back. I needed to witness the place where the Isabelle Ruppert, a sexually repressed female on the movie The Piano Teacher had walked on and wasted so many tissue papers.
A place with a hall lining up the doors located on the heart of Steinway intrigued me. It sounded too fishy.
Not like the dirty peep stores, the Karaoke Shout is far from old looking. It is impeccably modern, sleek and futuristic; not like the ones I saw in the outskirts of Thailand neither the gigantic fancy ones of Tokyo.
The colors and modernity of it started to give me a better clue. On the entrance room, there were fliers stacked all over the walls.
Slowly I see Japanese signs and letters. Images of the “42nd of Tokyo” came out on my mind. Except that this one has the New York city style: small chic rooms with colorful neon lights that made the room appear enormous from outside. If wasn’t for the gray couches, the place would be like being one of the Jettison’s cartoon character.
As I walked in, the loud music held me back from asking anything. The bartender followed me with her eyes as I walked. I walked further and she shouted: “You can ask”
More embarrassed than anything I smirked at her.
I was glad to know that my neighborhood has a Karaoke place with music in 15 different languages. A group bigger than 4 people you will get 20%. The place charges $2/per song or $5/H and 15% gratuity included.
Karaoke Shout is an indoor Japanese best version of a Karaoke on the go available in several languages.
If you feel like singing, don’t hesitate to browse in and scream your lungs out!!!!
