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Tacky Karaoke night at Mizuya

Saturday, February 6, 2010 - 10:25 pm English | 日本語

Oh, I can’t believe it’s been more than 2 weeks past since the last post! Geez, time is literally flying away these days. I’ve got quite alot of stuff happening, but I’ve got to say I didn’t have much of blog-worth occasions. It wouldn’t be interesting to blog about my usual places like Mamak, Chat Thai, Busshari etc, right?

So. Here it is, something new.

Do you like Karaoke? Yes? So do I!
Do you enjoy quick, fast, Izakaya style dinner with that touch panel order system at Wagaya? Yes? Excellent.

Then this place is definitely for you. A new Izakaya style restaurant Mizuya (Oh gwad, baaad bad website!) has recently opened on George street. They have two entrances- one on the Krispy Kreme side which leads to dinning only area, and the other on the Metro side which directly leads to private karaoke area. Man, this place is huge!

OK. My first impression entering from dinning side – more private, wooden cubicle style dinning area than that of Wagaya seemed good. Then I was guided into Karaoke area that we previously called and booked.

Walking through dark, violet light with LED wall lighting effect.

I couldn’t believe how TACKY IT WAS. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS PLACE. If I didn’t hear ear-hurting Karaoke singing voices from karaoke rooms in the hall way, I would have thought this was a private sex club or some sort ;p SERIOUSLY.

But the tackiness didn’t end there. The floor stuff stopped at the door 18, saying this is where my friends had already got in. (I was late due to heavy rain.) My friends’ already started eating wasn’t the only shocking thing I found. The interior.

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*faint*

Uhm… wow… that was my reaction – I didn’t quite know what else to express my surprised feeling. It was almost hurting my eyes. ;p

OK, enough about the tackiness. Beside the fact their interior is so greek dance club conversion ready, Karaoke system is great. They have JoySound system – a major Karaoke system in Japan that supports literally millions of songs and gets updated with newly released songs very quickly. No more “this place has more Chinese and Korean songs.” OHH YES. And I also noticed a familiar touch panel ordering system on the wall. Just like at Wagaya, your food order goes through with touch of a button.

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Unagi rolls

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Takana Fried Rice

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Deep fried Shrimps

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Yakisoba

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Fried Lotus root chips

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Karaage

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and my girly drink.

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And we were eating all these in a private room with tacky interior. What they have on the menu is pretty much exactly the same as Wagaya. (same management, of course.)

Now I see a box of tissue in the picture, I feel, well, rather dirty. *giggles*

So we ate and sang away.

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But I’ve got to say, apart from the tackiness, this is so Japanese – when I was in high school, I used to hit karaoke places with my friends and order food (what we call “karaoke food”) and sing. And here in Sydney, Karaoke night out usually starts with dinner somewhere and then off to a Karaoke place. Why not do that all at once? As you can see, each private room is pretty huge compared to other karaoke places in Sydney.

So, when is next Karaoke & Izakaya dinner gathering?
(and you know who I’m asking this)

~~Tacky~~ Mizuya
614 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000
02-9266-0866
(Booking is a must for private karaoke rooms.)

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19 comments for “Tacky Karaoke night at Mizuya”

Oh my F god!!!! I WANT TO GO!!! EAt while Singing?!? And what do you mean no more Chinese and Korean songs! I want my Chinese songs!!! Let’s go again with me! !!! LOL

Posted by billy@ATFT | February 6, 2010, 10:46 pm
LOL at the tacky interior! I like the idea of just sitting there singing away and having all the food come to you though (haha I’m so lazy). Whenever the next karaoke + dinner gathering is on count me in =D

Posted by Jacq | February 6, 2010, 11:53 pm
Hehe I have got to see the tacky for myself *hint*. So when are we all finally gonna hit up the microphone together?

Posted by Karen | February 7, 2010, 2:31 am
I loved the tacky decor, so Japanese! The food was good too, the fried chicken skin …. yum ….

Posted by joey@FoodiePop | February 7, 2010, 6:05 am
There should be more tacky interiors! Maybe I should go to a private sex club to check out your claim that it looks like one…

Posted by yewenyi | February 7, 2010, 8:08 am
Hehe you are too funny Yas! I remember going to Japan and some Japanese friends took me to karaoke but I had never done it before so I was petrified. Even worse, they had a staff rating system where the staff would judge you and a number would pop up after your song and that was what they thought of your singing prowess!

Posted by Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella | February 7, 2010, 8:29 am
HAHHAHAH I know you love the tackiness and seediness of K!!! Yeah I agree, in TW they have buffet K places that are 24 hours!!

We have to go K sometimmmeee!!!!

Posted by FFichiban | February 7, 2010, 12:05 pm
I’ve been eyeing this place for a while, and I’m glad you’ve been, because now I will actually dare to go in. All K is seedy =P What was the pricing like though?

Posted by Chris | February 7, 2010, 8:13 pm
I love Karaoke!!!!! I wanna sing!

Posted by Reemski | February 7, 2010, 8:26 pm
hahaha i miss you yas! but um im opting out of singing!

Posted by chocolatesuze | February 7, 2010, 8:48 pm
Ahahaha I’m going here on thurs! Looking forward to it

Posted by Minh | February 8, 2010, 1:21 pm
Heehee so fun! The interior is so strip club and I agree the website is terrible, but for some reason I wanna go so bad now!

Posted by Steph | February 8, 2010, 3:52 pm
I LOVE karaoke – but unfortunately, I’ve been banned from entering any karaoke bar by friends who have heard me sing! LOL!

Posted by Trissa | February 8, 2010, 9:03 pm
Hi,

We’ve been following your food blog for a while now and have been inspired to start one of our own!
Here is the link to our blog http://nomnomnibblies.blogspot.com/
Please pop by when you have time!

ps: we tried out Mizuya at the end of last month too! unfortunately we didn’t sing that day and only ate at the restaurant, but they were really nice to us, we stayed there for around 4hrs hehe just chatting along but they didn’t kick us out or anything hehe.

Love, L & J xx

Posted by Nomnomnibblies | February 10, 2010, 12:34 am
Hilarious! Karaoke and food- yep- agreed. Why not do it all at once?

Haven’t gone out for karaoke in ages…I’ve got a singstar kit at home which my friends and I overused few weeks ago…. I’m still scarred.

Posted by Adrian @ Food Rehab | February 11, 2010, 9:56 pm
TACKY,,,（はい。辞書でひきました。）

あたしは、ホストクラブかと思ったよ。

いや、この写真だと、エマママさん、、んで、あたしちょっと、、、チーママみたいじゃないの。
まるで、キャバクラね。

みつごろうは、、騙されたお客。

Posted by mayuri | February 11, 2010, 11:13 pm
@Billy
Hahaha I knoooow, right? They still have good amount of Chinese songs! Let’s go go go go!!! (and your birthday karaoke is long overdue, dude!)

@Jacq
This is so perfect – when you are not singing, you can concentrate on eating! LOL Yup, lets go next time!!

@Karen
Hehehe you’re definitely coming to the next Karaoke! A bitchy diva fighting to happen!!

@Joey
Hehe, apparently the management is by Hong Kong people! It’s too weird to be Japanese!

@Yewenyi
Hahaha not that I know what those places are like… LOL

@Lorraine
Hahahahaha oohhh the cruel rating system LOL Some Karaoke has built-in rating system – in which by the way I know the tip to score high!!

@FFIchiban
Yes, 24 hrs karaoke is what we need here in Sydney!! Lets gooooooooooooo! (and eat!)

@Chris
Hahaha, compared to other places, this place was relatively nicer (of course except the tackiness) We didn’t have any trashed drunken people barging in or anything LOL

@Reemski
You must come join next time!! Karaoke while we eat at the same time – a perfect combination for food bloggers!

@Chocolatesuze
Miss you tooooo!! Hahah too shy to sing?? I know you’d be busy with that deep fried cheese! (same one from Wagaya!)

@Minh
Hahahahahaha I want to know what you felt about the deco LOL Man, we haven’t been to Karaoke together yet!

@Steph
hehehe i know you want to! I guess the next food blogger gathering is at this place? LOL

@Trissa
Hahahahaha, that’s okay, you can be our ‘Australian foodie idol’ reject LOL (and I expect you to go all “you guys don’t know nothing ’bout me!!” Come along next time!!

@Nomnomnibblies
Ahhh thank you very much for the comment! Always great to hear comments like that! They seem to be pretty relax about it don’t they? I’ve stayed at wagaya for 3 hours, and didn’t get kicked out either LOL

@Adrian
Oh man, it’s definitely a perfect combo! Hehehe you have to come up to Sydney sometime and join us!

@Mayuri
辞書ひいたか（ばく）
ここ、内装が悪趣味スギ！つか、なんでテッシュが、とか思いましたゼ。またいこーね（ばく）

Posted by Yas | February 12, 2010, 12:53 am
You’re right. The website IS terrible.

The interior looks horrible. The food looks good though

Posted by Tasty Japan | February 12, 2010, 5:11 pm
Just tacky? You Japanese folk are far too polite

Wouldn’t mind seeing what the food is like in there, though.

Posted by Simon | February 20, 2010, 12:32 am