I almost prefer this location to the one in Little Tokyo. Easy parking, the rooms are slightly bigger and they are more lenient here. Let's just say we got away with some...not so appropriate things. The liquor store across the plaza helps too. And if you can keep even the non-karaoke fans happy, I am grateful to you. Because the longer we stay, the more I get to sing.
Review Source:Not the newest studio out there... one of the more decrepit ones that I've visited... but, for the price, in LA, it seems passable. Â Sound system/microphones are pretty whack - you won't get the best sound quality here. Â One of the rooms we used had some portable AC unit... weird. Â Come during happy hour.
Review Source:I think that this karaoke place has a great idea! I love the private rooms and the amazing infinite selection of songs to choose from, but I'm sorry, the guy working at the front counter when we first arrived, was SO rude. The older gentleman that helped us at the end of the night was so nice, which was refreshing. That's all I have to say that is "wrong" with this place was the younger rude guy.
Review Source:Where do I begin I just had the worst experience I have ever had at max karaoke. I show up at the bunch of my friends and there's a bunch of people waiting outside and I was sent to my friends Whatasen this can be like a weed or something we have never waited for Max. You before then shit crazy Asian guy at the counter said I'm sorry motherfucker is 52 hour wait regardless of how many people in your party and I said excuse me so that is not how you talk to people anything I can talk to you however I wanted and I said and I said you know what you can go fuck yourself. Regardless I will be returning That's the four stars.
Review Source:What to do in LA when everything is dead by 1?
Of course, get a private karaoke room with your friends and sing your hearts out!
I've been coming here for a couple of years and every time I come they always have the latest songs and the chillest employees. They have a huge parking lot and a liquor store in the same shopping mall.
"WHATTA MAN, WHATTA MAN, WHATTA MIGHTY GOOD MAN!"
Classic. fun. loud. crazy. Just like this lower-level strip mall karaoke spot on Sawtelle (across from Volcano Tea, in the same plaza as Nijiya Market and Curry House). Been coming here since my college days at UCLA. Great location walking distance from a ton of great eateries and tea houses.
Rooms are never that long of a wait, and you can sign up and they will call you when it's ready, so you can walk around and get some snacks at Nijiya (read: beer and sake). They charge $1 per bag of goodies to bring in, which is a good deal if you get a big bag for your group.
Rates are very reasonable, and they have tons and tons of songs. They've got all the classics as well as the new stuff, arranged by artist, title, genre, newness. Easy to operate and always a fun night with friends!
I'm so annoyed by Max karaoke. I will probably only go to their Little Tokyo location and not come to this one on Sawtelle anymore.
We arrived around 7:30 and was told there was a wait. We ended up getting a room some time after 7:50 and was told that the happy hour deal ends at 8. Even though it's not yet 8pm, they don't honor it anymore and we had to pay $28 per hour instead of $10. I thought that was kind of BS but we already waited so I said fine.
They charged me $1 extra per person to bring our boba in. I'm aware of this policy but in all the times I have come here it was never enforced.
The room was extremely warm. We were sweating. The music selection was good as always. I really enjoyed all the musical selections. The rooms here aren't very sound proofed. I could hear all the neighboring rooms singing. It was very distracting.
If you go out bar hopping in West LA, specifically on Sawtelle, then you should definitely try to make this place your last stop.
Yes, admittedly, it's not the most glamorous place to end your night, but with the right people and the right amount of alcohol, it can be glorious!!!
A huge selection of songs! Tambourines!! Strobe lights!! Epic fun!!
You can bring your own alcohol in with you. They don't care, just don't go flashing it around in the hallways. Also if you do drink in the room, leave a tip!
I like their happy hour deal which is $5 per person/per hour.
They have a good selection of songs that are relatively recent.
However, they quality of their machines are definitely not as good as the ones in ktown.
Also, another thing that bugged me was that fact that you can't turn off the background vocals here. Whoever they're using as the background voice..is quite annoying.
Moreover if you're use to awesome music videos in the background that you're use to from ktown etc, don't expect that here. sad life.
All in all, i would only return if we were too lazy to drive over to ktown. Otherwise, this place really isn't worth coming to.
I've been here tons of times, and I love it! The prices are decent and really cheap during happy hour (before 8), and the English song selection is great. They update the system with new songs monthly.
You can get delicious snacks and drinks at the Japanese grocery store next door, but you have to pay a fee to bring it in your karaoke room.
My friend and I went here today for the first time, and we loved it!
We've been having trouble finding karaoke bars with up-to-date English song selections in LA, so we were so happy we finally found one at Max!! They had nearly every song we wanted to sing...AND what's also great is that you control your song list by IPAD!! It's very user friendly for searching for songs and creating your list that is also very easy to switch the order of songs.
It's great that you can bring in your own food and drink for just $1 extra per head and parking was a breeze.
The only bummer was that we did have a little bit of trouble with our mics dropping out a bit here and there, otherwise the sound and acoustics of the room were great!
The girl at the front desk was very cute and friendly.
This is definitely our new go-to karaoke place in LA! We'll definitely be back.
We stumbled upon this karaoke studio after eating dinner nearby at Furaibo restaurant. Our friend spoke Japanese so he went inside for us and got us a room. There is a grocery store next door and we went inside and bought some drinks that the karaoke owner didnt' seem to mind that we brought it in. It was a typical karaoke studio I've been to except it's a little more run down that usual.
Have you guys ever gone karaoking? Typically, the song your'e singing along to is paired with a really sappy and, for lack of a better word, lame music video. I think of it as really corny and could do without it, but you don't really know what youv'e got until it's gone :( I found this out when our group sang its first song. THERE'S NO MUSIC VIDEO!!! The studio used a program called Sunfly, so it only shows the lyrics. Making fun of the music video is half the fun of singing karaoke!!! To add more salt to the wound, the quality of the song or maybe the quality of the speakers was far below par!
As far as the song selection goes, they didn't have Jay Z & Kanye West's N*ggas in Paris!!! Oh, what?! is exactly my thought!
Need something to do after a late night run to Volcano for some Boba? Â How about karaoke??
Max Karaoke Studio is literally on the other side of the street of Volcano and all the other restaurants in that area. Â We've dropped by here quite a few times after grabbing Boba, for having a convenient location is one of the greatest things about this place.
As far as the experience itself, the place doesn't look too impressive. Â The main lobby looks kinda beat up, and you can hear everyone belting out their favorites since the rooms aren't very soundproof. Â They do have a nice selection of songs, though, and they seem to update every month. Â So, if you are looking to sing the current songs all the cool kids know today, it's likely Max will have it. Â
The main hesitation I have for giving this place any higher of a rating is the price. Â It seems like Happy Hour is a great deal, but those hours are from around midday to dinner time... Â I don't remember exactly when, but c'mon, who goes and does karaoke so early in the day?? Â We always enjoy it more when we're naturally uninhibited, aka super late at night (and well, some of us have a little bit of extra help for getting uninhibited). Â If you don't go during Happy Hour, it's a little less than $10 an hour, but more on Friday and Saturday.
So yeah, if you prefer to karaoke early in the day, Max can be good. Â Otherwise, I'd suggest trying to find somewhere else. Â Of course, anything else is quite a bit of a drive away. Â So, it's up to you want to pay the high prices without happy hour or to pay the gas money and go somewhere else. Â Decisions, decisions!
5 stars for song selection, but the facility is drab! Borderline gross, it's like karaoke'ing in prison. There is not a single attempt to make the place attractive or pleasant. Just walls. Place to sit. A table. It smells a little funky.
Why then, do I repeatedly come here?
1) Location. I much prefer driving to West LA over downtown where all the other NRBs are.
2) The song selection. It has me coming back time and time again. It is SO up-to-date and includes a lot of obscure songs too. No one beats Max when it comes to song selection.
3) It's cheap. Weekdays it's only 4 bucks per person per hour before 8pm (5 bucks on Fri-Sun).
Street parking's not too hard to find, but if you end up parking in the lot (shared with the Japanese market and complex), you can get 1-hour validation.
Oh, and if you're like me and have a tendency to go effing nuts when you're karaoke'ing, make sure to pick up tambourines from the front desk. That's about as good as it gets for atmosphere.
Again, the song selection is unbeatable. This would be my fave NRB *ever* if they would just clean the place up, deliver a fun, cheesy disco-ball-and-laser-light atmosphere, and offer the good stuff like food and alcohol.
Best Thing:
-Don't really care if you bring your own food or beverages there
-Has great song selections
-Awesome happy hour prices and reasonable nightly prices
-Hilarious picture compilations to accompany the songs
-They have Lonely Island, I'm on  boat!
-Not full of korean songs
-Surprisingly clean bathrooms
Bad Thing:
-More than an hour wait if you are there on a busy night
-Standard rooms, but you can definitely hear your neighbors screerching
The prices here are pretty good and happy hour is even better. Unfortunately the biggest impact to the 2 stars is the sound. It's border line terrible to me. The song selection is great and they just charge $1 per head for bringing in your food and drink.
I'm not sure if it's the quality of microphones or some other thing about the sound but it's just not quite right. I'm used to my TJ (Taijin) Media system at home with basic mics and it sounds great or other stage karaoke places. Also if you're in Seattle, check out Rock Box.
I'll keep coming here for convenience and location but it's just a bummer to know the sound is going to be, well, meh.
This is my place when I want to karaoke and my out-of-town karaoke buddy is in town. Â We like singing in the private room so we have full control over the playlist.
They have a great happy hour special from 4-8PM - where the hourly rate is around $5-8 per hour. Â No alcohol is allowed here, but you can bring outside food and drinks for a nominal fee - $1 per person. Â They also sell drinks, asian snacks, and ramen bowls if you get hungry. Â
The rooms aren't fancy, but the sound system and equipment is good. Â The nice thing about the controller it's not in korean or japanese - so you can figure it out without a manual.
It kinda bums me out to give them two stars :(
I've been here a brazillion times over the years, and I always have fun here but every time I come it's super stressful. An incident I'll never forget is when I had just graduated HS and came here with friends, they overcharged us by around $100 and we had to drive back and get our refund at like 3am. also every time I'm here the mics do feedback or s/t until we wave down an employee to help us out (that one might just be me though).
The price was reasonable, the staff was super nice, the remote was so simple a turtle would understand it's functions.
Downside: If you normally go to Karaoke places in K-Town it's a bit more complex, but it's also completely different from Max. I also looked through the Korean book and didn't find any songs from artists I knew...except BoA...from years ago.
It's also not soundproof. You can hear other people singing in another room from your own. It can either be a bother or it can be extra entertaining. In our case VERY entertaining.
They do charge for outside drinks. In our case it was $1 for every outside food/beverage.
But you didn't have to cut me off, make it like it never happened and that we were nothing...blah, blah, blah... Now you're just somebody that I used to know.
Somebody.
Somebody.
This song hasn't even been out for that long and it's already on their playlist! I got all drunkards and silly me, I'm only able to remember this and Adele's "Rolling in the Deep". Yet, I seriously can't seem to shake that night off. Whenever I hear it on the radio, I get  these mini flashbacks of my friends and I singing our lungs off and performing like we were the next contestants on "The Voice". Haha
Hmmm.. could it have something to do with the clear sounding songs or was it that clear looking booze?? Ummm, both perhaps. ^_^
.....Somebody. Somebody.
/Give me that mic!
Damn, I just love that song!!
I'm the type of person who can't sing yet loves karaoke. Â Wait, you can't either? Â Okay, let's be friends.
If you are jonesing to have a singalong with your fellow tonedeaf friends, this is the place. Â No public bargoers will be in your private room to judge you, and the songlist was very extensive. Â There weren't too many songs that had accompanying cheesy music videos, but that's just details.
The seating was ample, the microphones were pretty decent, and the staff were friendly without being intrusive. Â You can bring in your own food and drink for a surcharge of $1 per person, or purchase soft drinks and ramen at the front desk.
It seems like they have their fair share of a rowdy crowd, as there were quite a few signs about damage charges and pictures of people wanted for drunken revelry and theft. Â However, I didn't see any rabblerousers while we were burning the midnight oil.
Now if only I could gather a group of friends who are eager to listen to my tonedeaf self belt out some Ke$ha...
Easily, one of my favorite places in LA. Â My friends and I go every other month or so, lock ourselves in a room for about 4 hours and we sing our little hearts out. What I love about this place is their selection of songs. Â Some places in K-town have the big books, but only have an itty bitty section for english songs, but here, you have a bible of ENGLISH EVERYTHING!!! Â You want Broadway? Â They have it. Â Disney? Â Done! Â Pop and oldies? Â Dance on rockstar... its there!
Sure, you don't get tamboruines, but that gets old fast. Â Also it's not the super clinical clean... but its just karaoke!! Â Whats nice about Max is that we can bring in our own food and drinks (for a minimal charge) and with a liquor store and a Nijiya in the same lot, you're pretty much set. Â
Note: Â It does get pretty hot in the rooms so layer up. Â Also, don't get super drunk, sing Justin Bieber and end up giving a your number to a security guard. Â That never ends well.
I love Max Karaoke! Â A lot of times, having a private room with some friends for a couple hours is way better than going to a public bar and waiting an hour just to sing your one song for the night. Â Max has a great selection too. Â My group of 6 went for two hours and it was about $15 per person.
The only bad thing really is the food and drink charge, as others have talked about. Â It's easy to stash a couple of beers in a large purse so I do that, but I hate stressing out the whole time about if they're going to get mad. Â They seem to be pretty chill, though.
Pretty average karaoke place compared to Ktown, but easier for me to get to from Venice. Â Song selection is pretty ok, but still we are comparing Max to the Korean places.
Parking can be tough, they charge for the lot. Â :(
Bring in alcohol but HIDE IT. Â The liquor store across the plaza is super reasonable. Â They will charge the crap out of you if they find it.
Basically, this place gets props for convenience.
I'm really surprised that this place gets so much love on Yelp.
Pros: Â Larger English song selection than their Korean counterparts (Gotta sing "Freedom 90" by Jorge Miguel), and you can bring your own food and liquor in... Â seriously, that's it.
Cons: Â Is it me or do most people have a preconception of Japanese being clean, efficient and orderly? Â Max Studio is unfortunately none of these things... Â the place has a sticky, scuzzy vibe, the equipment is broken down, not to mention extremely dated, and the pricing chart they have there is just ridiculously confusing.
Having had a grand old time in Little Tokyo making a mockery of some very great songs and rolling plenty of dead people over in their graves for my birthday, it seemed like it would be fun to recreate the experience on the Westside for another birthday. Max Karaoke is located in a typical mini mall on Sawtelle, though once inside it's oddly seedy but not in a cool way. The girl blowing chunks in the trash can out front of the store was a lot of fun, probably not for the poor guy holding her and trying to clean up after her but certainly for everyone else.
The rooms are pretty meh, sort of looked like a cell at Rikers. There is of course a huge selection of music to choose from which is expected. Like most Karaoke places, they seem to turn their heads the other way to any alcohol as long as you're discrete and not barfing in the lobby. Oh, actually I think that's okay here.
I'm not sure if we stayed longer than the last time, or the prices were just higher, but it seemed fairly expensive compared to other places. Expect to pay about $45 per hour if you have 8 people.
Overall we had a good time, if it didn't seem quite as epic as before it was still a load of fun.
Entertainment - A-
Ambience - D
Service - B
Value - B
I can't tell if Max Karaoke is totally awesome or upsetting. Â So basically, the deal is you get a room with a television, microphones, a couple of books, and a remote control. Â The lighting is dim and the floors and sofas are kind of sticky. Â You can usually sing songs in English (including current pop songs) as well as songs in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.
The variety is pretty impressive, everything from Avenue Q: The Musical to Tenacious D to the Totoro theme song. Â (Every group you go with will insist on singing The Internet is for Porn. Â It will get old.) Â Many of the songs have hilarious music videos from stock footage, too (these often are labeled with a V in the book.)
The one thing that peeved me about Max Karaoke is that last time ONE person in our group of 10 walked in with a Starbucks coffee during the last half an hour, so EVERYONE in the room was charged the $1 BYOB fee, adding $10 to our bill. It was a freaking coffee and only one person consumed it. Â I couldn't decide if I was angry at the coffee person (a friend of a friend) or the person working the Karaoke booth for rigidly enforcing the rules and applying it on all ten of us!
(That being said, most of the time I've gone my friends have successfully snuck in food and booze without being charged the BYOB, so maybe that was karma.)
I don't love this place because it has a great song selection.
I don't love this place because just because they let you BYOB and Snacks for a $1 per person
And I don't love this place because the guys working here are really cool and upbeat.
I love this place because they have the best selection of Spanish songs that I know off.....Shao!
Now I can impress/annoy my non spanish speaking peeps with my awesome renditions of classic Selena songs....in falsetto!
Now for the important stuff....the cost...*thunder crash* I have to say that Max Karaoke is...pretty darn cheap. Okay okay its not Mexican bikini bar karaoke cheap....but alot cheaper than the other karaoke places. $24 a person if I drunkenly remember and hey its worth it it since you can BYOB rather than have to pay through the at other karaoke places that charge for booze.
Oh yeah one more thing...Max Karaoke regularly keeps their English AND Spanish songs updated, just ASK for the new releases binder, don't just assume that they don't have it :P
If you're expecting K-Town level karaoke, this is not your place. Â If you want to try something average on the West side and your expectations are not extravagant, then this is your place.
PROS:
- BRING YOUR OWN BOOZE (there is a japanese supermarket and liquor store next door)
- easy parking
CONS:
- average song selection (you will not find many recent songs, mostly older classics)
- unpredictable fees for renting the rooms (sometimes you can be charged by the minute, and sometimes by the hour).
- equipment seems outdated
UPDATE:
I want to update my review because I was forced to give them another chance because my best friend was wanting to karaoke so bad and we didn't feel like driving to K-town...
We went in during happy hour on a regular weekday so it was pretty cheap. I felt that the service has gotten a tiny bit better, but they will still not tell you about the charge of one person's drink.
I still stand beside my opinions about the sucky ambiance, the horrible quality of the music, and how it's really overpriced.
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SUPER SHADY
Max Karaoke is nowhere near as clean and nice as noraebangs in K-town or in Asia, though they always have an updated song list which is nice. The decor is NON-EXISTENT. If you had a karaoke machine at home, you might as well hold the party there because the rooms are so tiny and boring-- plain walls, no special lights, etc.
The acoustics are horrible- the room isn't padded and makes everything sound like shit. A lot of the English songs sound like MIDI crap from the 90s.
I also don't like how they charge-- They charge per person (instead of per room) so it can really add up fast. They do have specials, but if you're a MINUTE late they don't let you in with the special-- I know because they've done it to me twice! The people at the front desk are rude & un-friendly as well. It's just disappointing all around. Also, THEY CHARGE BY THE MINUTE. As soon as you sign in they start charging and if you're a few minutes over, you get charged lots more.
For example, Sun-Thurs (from 8p-4am) there is a special for 2, however, they wouldn't give it to me because it was 11:59 and therefore "Friday."
Another time, they didn't tell me that they were going to charge for our already finished drinks (that we were just going to throw away in the room) and we got charged extra, and extra for being 10 minutes over (even though we spent 5 minutes getting a screen that said "this song is copyrighted" and was in Japanese so we couldn't read)-- he didn't come to let us know our hour is up. Literally, the guys at the front are jerks. :) An $8 event easily turned into $14 from them MAXimizing their earnings.
All they care about is getting as much money as possible with a place that SUCKS BALLS for ambiance, customer service, music & food selection... they will charge you MAXimum because they can get away with it. I HATE going to Max. I rather stay at home and put on a Youtube karaoke song to sing.
I had my karaoke cherry popped by Max last night - and I'm a little sore today because of it : P.
Max was gentle with me - our sordid business was conducted in a private room, on a very comfortable black leatherette banquette. Â And - don't judge me! - a group of my friends watched and cheered me on.
The lights were down low and the music was up loud, and Max was totally open to doing anything I wanted, because he's into EVERYTHING! Â I was pretty loud, but he didn't care - I'm pretty sure he kinda liked it. Â
My throat is a little scratchy this morning, but I have a smile on my face - remembering how it got that way. Â From now on, I know who to call for a good time!
I used to come here all the time in throughout high school, this was back when the place was called Karaoke Studio Yuu Yuu.
Back then, we'd express our inner boy band infatuation so you can bet we'd always sing multiple N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, and 98 Degrees hits as tradition. Whiny teenager voices and bad imitations of their dance moves made for fun times for all.
I went two nights ago to the "new" Max Karaoke. Nothing really got maximized from back in the day. It's essentially the same place. But at least they have a functional website now.
Here's what I thought:
PROS:
- This place has an extensive song list. Probably the biggest collection I've seen including Chinese/Japanese songs.
- They have the most up-to-date songs. Every month they come out with recent songs. I went and they even had "I'm On a Boat" by the Lonely Island. You know, the one with T-Pain on a boat? That was pretty cool to see.
- Happy Hour. Super cheap on weekdays. Mon-Thur 1p-8p at $4 a person per hour.
- Open late. Until 4 am on Fridays and Saturdays. 3 am for the rest.
CONS:
- The place is pretty dingy compared to karaoke places in Koreatown. When I went, the couches had huge gashes that were covered with duct tape. No cool lights or multiple screens. Just a TV and some couches.
- The mics need to be fixed. Or, the people working there need to adjust the gain levels when people leave the rooms so that you're not getting screeching feedback the whole night.
- The No-Alcohol policy sucks. Some people need the liquid courage to sing in front of people and this relegates people to have to down booze in their cars.
- The keypad system is simple but not efficient. You enter a song and it comes up hours later and most songs are out of order from the way you typed them in.
- The $41per hour for up to 7 people was about how much you'd pay at K-Town Karaoke places but you get so much more in the way of amenities than you do at Max.
Maybe I've been spoiled by nice karaoke places like Bobo's Karaoke in K-Town with their tambourines and well-furnished rooms.
I miss the good ol' days when this place was a lot cooler.
Bottom line, come here if you want to sing the latest songs or you want to kill some time in the Sawtelle area. Otherwise, you can have so much more fun elsewhere.
I just realized why my cough never goes away:
     Randomly ending up at a noraebang or karaoke and wailing away at the mike to
     drown my pain until 4:30 or 5 a.m. may be a possible culprit.  Mebee?  I dunno. Â
     Just mebee.
OMFG. Â Max Karaoke is going to help less. Â I was persuaded--almost kidnapped--by the rest of my group to come here and we rolled in around 1 a.m.
No booze? Â No problem. Â Hustle over to the liquor store across the parking lot. Â Just be discrete when you're bringing it in as it saves everyone embarrassment (they'll even just give you the cups with no questions asked):
     "No ma'am, that's not a bottle of sake in my pants.  I'm just happy to be here. Â
     Can I go now because, for some reason, I'm freezing my nuts off out here."
You may find it easier just to have one of the ladies in your group come with you and put the chilled sake in her purse.
Whoa, they have new songs and random other ones, and consequently I was able to flex my vocal muscles over a whole new set of tunes. Â I also realized that Axl Rose can wail like a banshee, but there ain't no way in hell I will ever be able to sing "Welcome to the Jungle" unless I start taking hormone therapy--an option that I am not completely ruling out because I am THAT dedicated to my musical pursuit.
As at least one other reviewer has pointed out, the rooms are not sound proof and the staff and people outside can hear everything. Â Probably explains the standing ovation I received when we were walking out to leave.
My friend said they were cheering because I was leaving and the torture was over. Â I told her she's crazy, 'cause why else would they have wanted my autograph on the credit card receipt. Â I'm sending them a headshot so they can hang it on their wall.
Pffft, you betta' recognize!!!
I know that there are tons of karaoke places in k-town but this place is the sh*t.
Made reservations the day of karaoke-partying for a large room. Â We had a group of about 12. Â They booked us with no problems. Â We couldn't get our act together to get there on time. Â One of the posse called up and Max Karaoke pushed back our time alot. Â No penalties or fines or crap to deal with. Â Just chill and accommodating. Â The staff was the definition of friendly. Â
The room was clean and comfie. Â Spacious. Â I could have fallen asleep on the couch. Â Oh wait, I did pass out on the comfie couch. Â I think we were there until 3:30 in the morning. Â That night is a bit hard to recall. Â Lots of drinking, singing our hearts out and swaying our hips. Â The music selection was wonderfully diverse -- a little somethin' somethin' for everyone. Â Oh 80's love ballads, I can rock out to you anytime.
This place is special. Â It is a special karaoke bar. Â My lips are sealed.
(By the way, this is "Max Karaoke" now, not Yuu Yuu.)
So - anyone who has ever met/spoken to me will probably know that I am a bit of a KARAOKE NUT. This is an unfortunate thing, because I have a passion for shitty guilty pleasure songs and I am also tone-deaf. I've made an ass out of myself at myriad karaoke places, but this place remains an all-time favorite. I've had many fond, super drunk, black-out-and-hit-my-head-on-the-wall karaoke memories here.
The staff here is friendly and highly tolerant of belligerent drunks. They sell cute/delicious food items here as well, but I wouldn't bother with that since Nijiya is right next door. You can smuggle in your own alcohol if you fork over the extra $1 per person, totally worth it. They assign you to private rooms of varying size depending on the # of people in your party. Awesome song selection with tons of super shitty new releases for your (or my) enjoyment. I only wish that they had more than 2 microphones per room, but that's just pipe dreams.
Love, love Yuu Yuu/Max Karaoke.
The Good ::
- Friendly staff who do not treat you like you're a member of the WaChing (SG Valley Karaoke frequenters will appreciate this) .. so, no full body searches everytime you return from smoking outside (yayyyy!)
- Easy to use remote (with English language buttons!)
- Comprehensive collection of music (we found 95% of the songs we were looking for), American music at least - we did not venture into the Asian catalog.
- Room was clean. No weird smells.
The Bad ::
- Staff do not exactly have Ph.D. in Operations.
- Reservations cost $30. No refunds for cancellations/no shows.
- Mic sound was mediocre.
- Wha? No disco balls and props? .. j/k
The Ugly ::
- No alcohol! Bring your BIG purse .. there's a liquor store with a very nice collection across the lot.
- Stock videos from 80's so bad, you will soon be asking for text on blue screen with bouncy balls.
This place has Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English songs galore. The thing to note is that this place has private semi-soundproof booths so that shy singers can hide with only their most intimate friends. This place has a sister Karaoke studio in Torrance called Max Karaoke, with the same selection (basically).
TIPS:
1. Happy hour is only 3-4 dollars a person/hour! (between 1-8pm everyday)
2. They charge you $1 per person if you bring outside food or drink in because you probably won't buy their overpriced food/drink. Go to Nijiya market next door and the money you'll save is more than a dollar per person if you bring a lunch or big snack in.
3. You can punch songs in to queue them even when someone is singing
4. Park in the underground lot to avoid parking tickets. It is FREE.
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