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Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 pm to close
Come early for dinner and the best seats in the house. Singing and dancing should not be attempted on an empty stomach!
What is Karaoke?
The Japanese word "karaoke" is a Japanese abbreviated compound word: "kara" comes from "karappo" meaning "empty" and sounding like "crappo", and "oke" is the abbreviation of "okesutura," or orchestra. Karaoke is now listed not only in Japanese dictionaries but also in the latest edition of The Oxford English Dictionary published in England, and of course the online Urban Dictionary.
Karaoke is a typical form of entertainment for Japanese business people; they drop into a bar with colleagues after work, drink waaay too much Saki, and enjoy tearing popular songs to shreads by singing to the accompaniment of karaoke.
Though karaoke was at first entertainment mainly for business people, it has grown to be a nationwide amusement, thanks to technological development and a new business called the "karaoke dude".
Originally in the form of tape cassettes, karaoke evolved to the compact disk, which can locate the beginning of a song immediately. This development also made possible the enhancement of video scenes to create an atmosphere suitable to each song, displayed on a TV monitor along with the words, although that did not help the reading impared - a handicap that usually stems from the bad singing gene.
Karaoke equipment is best stored at room temperature, preferably in the path of indoor games.
Today the karaoke boom has spread abroad, enjoyed not only in Korea and China but also in Southeast Asia, the U.S., Europe, and Big Tony's. Since karaoke displays the words and scenes of a song on a monitor, it has also been attracting the attention of countries trying to improve their literacy rate, as a good educational tool. Sesame Street actually started that.
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