K1 Karaoke Lounge

This place is quite decent if you don’t go on Friday/​Saturday nights (where it is 2.5 times the price that it is normally, crowded, and not as many specials).
The selection of songs is pretty standard to most Chinatown karaōke places where you need to either have an understanding of Chinese, go along with people who do (or have been here before). I guess that adds to the authenticity as it is Chinatown after all.

I hate giving 1 star reviews, but this has to be done :(
I went to K1 Karaōke Lounge one Saturday night. First and foremost, the place is a tad hard to find. The address says it’s on level 2 but I had to go up several flights of stairs. But I’m getting ahead of myself. There isn’t a large sign on ground level, so my advice is… look up. Then you know what building to go into.
The entrance is basically just a tiny door, which is guarded by a rather unfriendly bouncer. Now, I don’t look particularly threatening at all. But the bouncer asked me, quite rudely, what I was doing there. I said I was going to go karaōke with my friends. He asked me what time I was supposed to be there and only let me through when I said I was supposed to be there at around that time. Seriously? Is this some secret club where I have to prove I have a right to be there?
So I went up several, rather grody, flights of stairs, which made me wonder if I was in the right place… but I was.
Apparently they ask you to pay upfront. In other karaōke places I’d been to, you didn’t have to pay the entire amount upfront. Since we were a large group, and the rest hadn’t arrived yet, my friend had to pay the entire amount (in cash.) If you wanted drinks, you had to pay a large deposit, too (I think it was $ 50?)
OK, so we were finally in the room. I’m sorry, but they had the worst karaōke system EVER. Unlike other karaōke places which have a book where you can select songs, everything was done via computer. Which would’ve been good, had it been done correctly, but it wasn’t. It was really hard to navigate and pick songs because their song system was probably the most user-​UNFRIENDLY system in the entire history of mankind. And a great chunk of it was in Chinese, which is probably good for Chinese speakers but NOT cool at all for non-​Chinese speakers like us. It took us around 15 minutes to figure it out. (During this time we ended up adding one obscure, ancient song 15 times to the playlist.)
Then apparently the system itself wasn’t working properly, either. I dunno but there was something wrong with the software. After finally flagging down someone to fix it for us, they spent another 15 minutes just mucking around with it before finally believing us that it WAS messed up and offered to move us to another room.
Just too much stress for what is supposed to be a fun night. Karaōke is supposed to be fun, right? But with the mishaps we encountered plus the rude attitude of the employees, I suggest giving this place a miss.