"Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head" - Robert Fulton Abernethy

I'm not a particularly great singer, and I wouldn't say I have any great ear for musical prowess, but for some reason I just really like karaoke, both performing or watching.  There is something equally thrilling about watching someone totally bomb as there is about watching someone rock the house.  Although its not necessarily as fun to yourself bomb in public, I recently discovered a place in University City known as Sang Kee Noodle House where you can get good food and unite the best and worst of singers in a private karaoke room without (much) judgment.

For our firm's last summer clerk event, the Women's Network at the firm sponsored dinner and fun at Sang Kee.  For $25.00 a person for food, plus a $10.00 per bottle corkage fee (Sang Kee is byob), we enjoyed wonton soup, an appetizer of dumplings and spring rolls, and multiple plates of delicious asian-inspired shrimp, chicken, beef, and rice entrees as well as a fantastic peking duck dish.  After sufficiently stuffing ourselves we moved to a private room that holds 15-20 for karaoke.  The song selections are expansive, covering foreign and American artists alike, and conveniently broken down by female artists, male artists, duets, and groups.

We traded the microphone for about 2 hours, singing everything from NSync to Labelle to Jay Z, with Jackson 5's ABC as our grand finale.

 [at dinner before karaoke]

 [Jay Z and Alicia Keys - "New York"]

[good times]

While I found Sang Kee to be fantastic because it removes the potential public embarrassment of the traditional karaoke bar, if you prefer more of the "real deal" I can recommend McGillin's on Wednesday or Friday nights (but beware - the regulars are no joke!).