Sauce Magnusson

If you're ever in China, you should really treat yourself to a nice massage and a day at a spa. They are both quite cheap (maybe a 100 RMB each per person, ~15 USD, with everything included) and they're really experiences I've never had in the west. The massages are fairly straightforward. They bring you to a private room where you undress and put on some robes that they provide. Since I tried a foot massage, they come in and soak your feet in warm water. During that time they give you a brief back massage, etc. Then they going at your feet, which scrub down, rinse, and apply a moisturizer. They put a booty on my foot to keep it warm while they massaged the other foot. The massage tickled sometimes, and they thought it was funny when I would giggle, but after a while you relax and it really loosens up your feet. They also did the calves and arms, which was nice.

The spa is something I've never tried before, but I suppose it's akin to a Turkish bath or Russian Banyo, but with less man-on-man time, and more swimming in various pools. Since the Chinese are big on different medicines there are hot tubs with some medicines like Ginseng, Red Wine, Gegen （葛根) or Kudzu, 当归 （dang gui），or Angelica Cutiloba, and what they said was lavender, but it looked like purple food coloring.

One of the things we tried was the Doctor Fish or Garra Rufa treatment, which uses small, toothless fish that suck dead skin off of your body to eat. It tickles quite a bit, and I'm not sure that it really does anything other than expose your feet to fish poop, but it was interesting to try.



Also in the building they had various swimming pools for both lap swimming and kiddie pools. It's a really nice experience that I recommend trying sometime!

 The locker rooms were fabulous
Better than I've ever seen before for a locker room
 Very Bourgeois for alleged communists!
 They had red wine pools (don't drink them, I got in trouble).
 Some of the doctor fish
 Ahh tickles!
 A funny thing was the buffet, which started at 11 AM.
 People made a mass rush- since it was included, all you can eat, people figured they would run out of food.
 There was literally fighting-- people grabbed the food tongs, and carried them with themselves so they wouldn't have to wait to grab food from the various bins.
 And the most hilarious thing was... the company refilled the food bins when they ran out, so there was no need to fight!
Rape is not only a problem in India...
 I firmly believe this lavender hot tub is actually just food dye.
 The faux cave gave it a glorious ambience.
 Probably urine from all of the minorities.

You see, Chinese babies don't use diapers, they just go out slits in their onesies.
 Very beautiful pools
 Some faux trees.
 Some more of the pools
 The fish pool





 Faux elephants
I never knew how to spell Faux until today
 Those are real goldfish, I believe.
 Octomami!
 Really beautiful actually.

 Before fish eating my feet:
 After fish eating my feet:
 There's playgrounds for kids:
 And a bucket full of water crashes periodically:
 The prices for VIP- I guess Chinese will get a VIP card with thousands of yuans on it, then use the card for 5 years. If you spend 50,000 RMB, you will get a bonus of 20,000 RMB on your card!