Jay Chou Opens Movie-Themed Restaurant Antique Piano Becomes the Treasure of the Shop

Jay Chou plays an antique piano in "Can't Tell? Secrets" in which he plays an antique piano. (Photo)

The piano in the restaurant has a sign that says, "Please don't play it, lest you be sent back 20 years".

With its thoughtful signage, the restaurant lives up to its music-movie theme.

Waiters in school uniforms.

The Southern Metropolis Daily reported on June 14 that there are thoughtful restaurant signage, sheet music menus, old gramophones, waiters in school uniforms ...... This restaurant is worthy of the music movie theme.

The store's resume

M r.J Italian-French Kitchen North Medical Branch

Time of opening: September 2007

Address: No. 250, Wuxing Street, Xinyi District, Taipei City, Taiwan

Opening capital: NT$ 5 million

Services: catering

The treasure of the town

The old gramophone.

Customers who come to M r.J Italian-French Kitchen's North Medical Center store will inevitably rush to the grand piano first: "It's really the one from "Can't Tell the Secret". Secrets"!" Yes, it's the one from "Can't Say? Secret" in which Zhou Dong soared the piano.

"Jay used to open an antique store, he prefers antique elements, and after the store over there ended, he put up small antiques, oil paintings and these more pure art style things, he prefers these kinds of things," said the store manager, "This store was opened after the filming of Can't Say? Secret" opened after the filming, then wanted to make a movie theme restaurant, so Jay said, so do you want to put that piano over, so take it over.

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Set up the props in the play, naturally let the fans flocked to the store to consume is bound to surround the piano left and right, sometimes even to play the piano to be addicted, "because this is an antique piano, so Jay is very cherished, or some afraid of people break, so he wrote this note to us to be put on the piano," he said. "Placed on the piano is a printed note, but the content is written by Jay Chou --- "Please do not play indiscriminately, so as not to be sent back 20 years ago --- --- Xianglun Ye."

The love affair of the store

Jay Chou and the restaurant: only my songs can be played in the background

Jay Chou seems to have a strong interest in the restaurant business, and after M r.J Italian Kitchen, he opened a dessert store, and is planning to go to Kaohsiung, as well as other cities in southern Taiwan, to open M r.J Italian Kitchen outlets.

"He just has a lot of ideas, and people around him have a lot of ideas," said the store manager, who is one of Jay's close friends, and while he simply brushed off the collaboration with Jay as "coincidence,"

he didn't deny that opening a restaurant was one of his favorite things, and one he was good at. It's a project he's more interested in and good at. "We were a couple of friends, so we were discussing what style we wanted to make, and we came up with the idea of opening this theme restaurant."

"A few friends" in the course of Jay Chou, he is an investor, and his "few friends" are all ideas, so Jay Chou is responsible for the investment to help everyone as well as his own realization of the idea. "For example, Huang Junlang, who writes Jay's lyrics, is also the art director of Chinese Edition Publishing, so you can imagine he's a very talented designer. When we were discussing the restaurant, he had a feel for the design of the menu and the menu, and he ended up being in charge of that piece, which ended up being designed to look like a piano score."

In the face of a restaurant with such a style of its own, Jay Chou is quite satisfied, and he has previously set himself a plan to spend once a month, but in fact often breaks this "quota": "Jay Chou often comes here,

he is very civilian, and when he comes here, he eats here, of course, most of the time in the upstairs booth. Most of them are in the upstairs box, the whole restaurant only that one box, but if the guests downstairs is not much, he will come down to eat, and sometimes play the piano in high spirits, which will certainly be recognized, so there are often fans want to take a picture, and he is also very happy, if there is nothing else, he will be photographed."

Jay is also very proud of this restaurant, accepting the C N N interview was also arranged in this restaurant, the end of the interview is he played the classical piano.

Jay has two "hard" rules for the restaurant: first, only his own songs can be played in the background, and second, there must be "Mentaiko Cream Noodle", which is a must-order for Jay every time he eats at the restaurant. In addition, the dairy beef steak, crab meat noodles and pizza, are his favorite.

The Origin of the Restaurant

Opening a Movie-Themed Restaurant

M r.J Italian-French Kitchen was Jay's first successful venture outside of acting, when he first opened an antique store, which ended up being overpriced and out of business. Afterwards, he opened M r.J Italian-French Kitchen Guangfu store, which was successfully operated. After the release of "Can't Tell? Secret" was released, Jay had the idea of opening a movie-themed restaurant, which led to the M r.J Italian-French Kitchen North Medical Store.

Store features

Everything is according to the movie

Since it is a movie-themed restaurant, everything should be according to the movie. Except for the antique piano, the whole restaurant is decorated in movie style. The large movie stills in the restaurant are the costumes of Jay Chou and Guey Lun-mei in the movie, the gramophone is also from the movie props, and the menu is made to look like a piano score, everything is very "Secret" style. Because of the soundtrack of "Secret", Jay won the Golden Horse trophy for best original movie song, which he proudly placed at the entrance of the restaurant.

The biggest surprise was the store's waiters, all of whom wore The Secret's school uniforms. "When we were designing the costumes, Jay said, the school uniforms in the movie are put there, why don't we use them as work uniforms," said the store manager, so coming to eat at M r.J Italian-French Kitchen really feels like being in the movie.

The popularity of the store

The consumer crowd here is not only students, fans, movie fans, Southeast Asian tour groups, but also Jay Chou's family. "Because this store is very large, and this pick height of 6 meters, very comfortable, so Jay's his mother, sister-in-law, cousin and Jay's piano teacher, are often come, mainly because of the comfortable environment." Store manager introduction. This restaurant can accommodate up to 60 guests, more suitable for organizing small parties, so there are often fans will be the whole restaurant package down, open birthday PA RTY. restaurant also often with Jay's acting to carry out activities.

In the beginning, he opened an antique store, the results of the high price, not enough to make ends meet, ended the business. Afterwards, he opened M r.J Italian-French Kitchen Guangfu store, which was successfully operated. After the release of "Can't Tell? Secret" was released, Jay had the idea of opening a movie-themed restaurant, which led to the M r.J Italian-French Kitchen North Medical Store.

Features

Everything is according to the movie

Since it is a movie-themed restaurant, everything should be according to the movie. Except for the antique piano, the whole restaurant is decorated in a movie style. The large movie stills in the restaurant are the costumes of Jay Chou and Guey Lun-mei in the movie, the gramophone is also from the movie props, and the menu is made to look like a piano score, everything is very "Secret" style. Because of the soundtrack of "Secret", Jay won the Golden Horse trophy for best original movie song, which he proudly placed at the entrance of the restaurant.

The biggest surprise was the store's waiters, all of whom wore The Secret's school uniforms. "When we were designing the costumes, Jay said, the school uniforms in the movie are put there, why don't we use them as work uniforms," said the store manager, so coming to eat at M r.J Italian-French Kitchen really feels like being in the movie.

The popularity of the store

The consumer crowd here is not only students, fans, movie fans, Southeast Asian tour groups, but also Jay Chou's family. "Because this store is very large, and this pick height of 6 meters, very comfortable, so Jay's his mother, sister-in-law, cousin and Jay's piano teacher, are often come, mainly because of the comfortable environment." Store manager introduction. This restaurant can accommodate up to 60 guests, more suitable for organizing small parties, so there are often fans will be the whole restaurant package down, open birthday PA RTY. restaurant also often with Jay's acting to carry out activities.