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[Moe Moe Kyun!] Maid Café Ideas for the School Cultural Festival

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A maid café at a school festival sounds so much fun!

If you come up with a special theme, you can set your café apart from the others.

Here, we’ll introduce some recommended ideas for those who want to try running a maid café at their school festival!

It’s also a great idea to add original drinks and sweets to the menu.

And choosing the maid outfits is important too!

If everyone picks cute designs and colors together, it creates a sense of unity.

Make it the best maid café ever and create wonderful memories that the whole class can enjoy.

What Is a Maid Café (1–10)

A drink with amber sugar and cotton candy

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Do you know the Japanese confection called kohakutou (amber sugar)? If you like traditional sweets, you’ve probably tried it at least once.

It’s a simple, old-fashioned treat made by dissolving sugar and food coloring into agar.

If you increase the agar and make it softer like yokan, it becomes a sweet called kohakukan.

Kinda makes you crave some, doesn’t it? How about offering a colorful drink that uses kohakutou? Combine it with colored ice or jelly to boost the visual appeal! It’s sure to catch everyone’s eye.

And make good use of the effect of dissolving cotton candy, too!

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Original Drink

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Offering original drinks at the school festival sounds like a great way to stand out from other booths and build excitement! First, let’s decide what kind of drinks you want to make.

Choosing the flavor profile, whether to include ice, and how to decorate them will make it easier to finalize the menu—highly recommended.

Also decide how many types of original drinks you’ll offer.

Preparing both hot and iced options to match the season will likely boost popularity.

Definitely give it a try!

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Sparkling Drink

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There’s something called aurora powder.

It comes in pink, blue, and lots of other colors, and you can tint clear soda so it looks like the aurora is shimmering through it.

Hard to picture in words? Try searching for a related video—you’ll definitely find yourself thinking, “I want to make this!” You can also wrap cotton candy with aurora powder to add a little flair in the moments before it melts.

Combine it with edible glitter and you can make even more sparkling drinks.

If you care about looks above all, this is a wildly recommended pick.

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What Is a Maid Café? (11–20)

Fruits in tea

On hot days, drinks really fly off the shelves.

So here’s a photogenic fruit-infused iced tea to showcase.

Arrange round slices of fruit to decorate a clear cup—lemon and grapefruit work great.

Add ice to hold the fruit in place, pour in iced tea, then top it off with diced fruit.

Dried fruits and nuts are also popular additions.

Adjust the sweetness with honey or syrup to make it a hit with everyone.

You can also switch it up with colored sodas—have fun experimenting!

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Taiwanese drink! Douhua

Do you know douhua? It’s written with the characters for “tofu flower” and pronounced “doufa.” Recently, specialty shops have opened, and it’s been appearing more often on trendy café menus.

Douhua is a traditional Taiwanese dessert—think something like tofu or almond jelly.

It’s cold and refreshing, and it’s sure to be a hit at a hot-day school festival.

It hasn’t gone fully mainstream yet, but it’s definitely a hot topic, and I bet many people are curious about it.

You can serve it in a bowl like ice cream, or in a cup like a bubble tea—there are tons of ways to customize it!

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chai tea

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A stylish chai tea with a special feel would probably be popular if you sold it at a school festival booth.

If you want to set up a booth at the festival, let’s discuss and decide on things like the menu, toppings, and whether to offer iced or hot versions as we plan.

It might also help the service run smoothly on the day if you decide in advance which spices to use for the chai.

Offering sweetness levels—less sweet, regular, or sweeter—could make it easier for customers to choose.

Recommended toppings include cinnamon powder, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream!

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Various maid cafe ideas (11–20)

Just wearing maid outfits and serving drinks—the typical café format—is boring! Here are some ideas we’d love for you to try if you want to get particular about the details or set your maid café apart from the rest.

With these ideas plus your own personal flair, you might just create a buzzworthy maid café that surprises everyone!

Various ideas for a maid café (1–10)

maid cafe

High School Student Idea Division Grand Prix: “Afterlife Café (Maid Café) — Welcome home, dear temple patrons!♡” / Kaede Iwamoto

maid cafe

Here’s a fun idea if it ever comes to life! Introducing a “Meido” Café—playing on the words “maid” and “afterlife.” This humorous concept is sure to draw attention.

Decorate the classroom with a temple theme and give visitors nicknames styled like posthumous Buddhist names.

For drinks and food, offer a unique service where staff cast a playful spell—“Oishiku nare, nen-nen kyun!”—before serving.

Feel free to use this as inspiration and add your own twist.

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