nami's feet get the treatment:
i especially love kevin's expression!
doctor fish:
koreans love spas. koreans love clean skin. koreans love to drink. where can you go and do all three? aha! in pyeongchon, there's a bar where you can drink and get a foot spa by "doctor fish," little fish that clean your feet. it's as weird yet strangely intriguing as you think it seems!
what is dr. fish?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_fish
originally used in turkish spas to treat psoriasis ailments, doctor fish spas have opened in japan, china, singapore and korea. these little guys literally eat your dead skin, leaving your feet feeling ultra smooth and tingly. it's so bizarre! the other night when a group of us went out for drinks, we went to a bar called danke where you can throw back shots of soju then give a feast to these little fishies.
i was at first very apprehensive about it all. i have ticklish feet and quite honestly, the thought of fish eating my dead skin sounds absolutely disgusting. DISGUSTING. but shoot. you gotta try quirky things like this at least once! so i timidly stuck my finger into the pool and yelped like a scaredy cat when the first fish took a nibble. i immediately withdrew my finger out of the water and was impressed when my co-workers stuck their entire feet, shin deep into the water. oh my grossness! those bad boys were going to town and i mean TO TOWN! i could hardly stand one fish bite, how could they tolerate a dozen, 20, 30 fish on their feet?!?!?! awwaagrrrghghhhh!
like a champ, i challenged my fear and stuck my feet into the pool...but, as you can guess, i didn't last long! it felt like a cat was licking the bottom on my feet, but it wasn't just one cat, it was at least 10 cats, 10 cat tongues! then 20...and i got the heebie jeebies. fish are eating my skin! what?!?! i was instructed to try to relax--relax? how can you relax when you're watching fish eat your feet?!?--and luckily there was a tv to distract my attention away from these so called doctor fish.
on my second go, i surprisingly spent about 10-15 minutes in the pool, and was indeed able to relax. it's a really crazy feeling to be able to feel the suction and nibbling on your skin, but when there's a non-stop nibble-fest, it's oddly calming.
one fish, two fish, 30 fish, doctor fish.
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