While we were in Kuala Lumpur, Declan and I treated ourselves to a foot treatment at a fish spa. I'd read about a fish spa that had opened in the Seattle area sometime this summer, and then read a few days later about how the Health Department had shut them down. So when Richard and I were walking one night in KL and I was handed a flyer for a new fish spa that offered a $10 treatment, and kids under 12 were free, well, I had to try it.
What, you may ask, is a fish spa? Essentially, it's a 30 minute adventure that claims to remove the dead skin from your feet "the natural way." In other words, you quickly wash the day's grime off your feet, and then stick them into a fish tank. Yup, into a tank filled with hundreds of little fish. The fish spend 30 minutes nibbling, and voila, you have nice smooth feet.
I'll be honest...I shrieked when the fish first got to my feet. It felt like, well, ... a mass of little fish chewing on my feet. Ticklish and creepy all at the same time. After a minute or so, you adjust, and you just giggle maniacally while the little monsters try to get between your toes, nibbling all the while. Declan stuck his feet firmly on the bottom of the tank to try to discourage the most ticklish ones.
After about 20 minutes of this, we were moved to the tank with the bigger fish (4 inches, rather than 2). Sorry, but these guys have alarmingly sharp teeth, and their ministrations were actually somewhat painful. I found myself holding just my heels in the water, directing the fish towards the monster callouses developed from two months wearing nothing but Tevas.
Declan kept patting me on the shoulder and assuring me that I didn't have to go through with this, but I told him that there was no way I could quit if he was sticking it out.
At the end, we rinsed our feet off (note to future fish spa owners, some soap might not go awry here), and paid our $10.
Much to my surprise, when we got back to our hotel (totally drenched from the evening thunderstorm), our feet were admirably smooth and polished. Much better results than could be achieved with a pumice stone for sure. One week later, our feet still look much better than Aidan's and Richard's. But I can't say that I'll ever do it again.
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Hi Declan -- nothing like a couple 'o sardines nibbling at your feet. What do you think would happen if you fell asleep during one? When you woke up would you have a foot left? Hope things are going well with you.
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Yo Andrew hop you are having fun. The fishes were awhile ago noe that we are in Bankok but still... You probably would have some scraps of flesh hanging off the bone but they are only supost to eat dead skin but don't fall asleep in your fish tank cause you ever know...
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