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Happy feet in Beijing


After a long flight to Beijing for the China 2.0 Tour, I went with a group of our “old China hands” to find a foot massage/reflexology place as a way to attack everyone’s jet lag.

We ended up in a three-story foot emporium, a chain business in China, called Liangzi.

We split up into groups of three.

Elliott Ng of travel search site UpTake, Ernst-Jan Pfauth the Dutch ProBlogger and I went into a nice, comfy small room where each of us had a foot masseuse work the living daylights out of our feet and legs for about the next hour and a half.

Heavenly.

Elliott speaks some Chinese, so we spoke back and forth as well as we could (the two guys had women masseuses, I had a man) and talked about where we were from and what we were doing in China.

My masseuse was “Number 87;” I’m embarrassed to say that I don’t know his actual name because I had no pen and paper handy. He was only 19, said that he works the 10:30 am to 1:30 am shift and that I was his 7th client.

He was super-nice and efficient and by the end of our session, I had had my toes, arches, heels and calves pretty thoroughly mooshed, rubbed, prodded and smacked.

Each masseuse was very sensitive to discomfort, the room was soothing and I drank lots of hot water with lemon and honey (supposedly to help flush out toxins.)

On the way out, we also had a short shoulder and back massage.

After a 20 hour flight, carrying luggage and schlepping a laptop on my shoulders, this was MOST helpful to my mental attitude.

The whole session was about US$15 - a total bargain, obviously.

By Sheila | Permalink | 4 comments | November 10th, 2008 | Trackback
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Angela Nickerson says (November 11th, 2008 at 1:00 am)

Oh, that sounds so good right now! Glad you are having a little fun while working hard!

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Debbie Dubrow says (November 11th, 2008 at 1:17 am)

Glad you’re having fun!

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Sheila says (November 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm)

I should have had one the night before I left China, as well. :)

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