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09/11/10
McNibblers
Filed under: General
Posted by: @ 4:50 pm

GingerJeffOutline

Some things are just too weird for words. Others are just too weird for pictures, like yesterday. We went to a Chinese Style Spa for a day retreat with the rest of the staff members at our school.

The spa was in the beautiful forests outside of the city, on a sloping mountainside. After gorging ourselves on a lunch of crunchy chicken feet, pigeon and pumpkin, we got to roam the spa grounds and explore different pools.

First, there were the ice cream pools. One was milky white and steamy, filled with the essence of coconut. Next to it was the light green lime pool and the mint pool.  

There was the rose pedal pool. It was like soaking in a gigantic air freshener.

There were plane pools, kiddy pools and Jacuzzi like pools, but the best pool was the one we called the McNibbler. The pool was filled with tiny fish that nibbled the dead skin off of your body.

And this was supposed to be relazing.

The fish came after our bodies like a baby pack of piranhas.

They viewed our American flesh like an Old Country Buffet, nibbling on every part they could access.

First, they made appetizers of my healing mosquito bites.

Then, they feasted upon our calloused toes.

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One nibbled on Jeff’s nipple.

Both of us discovered we had dead skin in places we never imagined!

It beat any exfoliation treatment you could get at a frou-frou spa in Chicago.

After we were finished being snacked on in the pools, we snacked on the Chinese alternative to ice cream, called Bean Ice. It looks like  a snow cone covered with florescent Dairy Queen toppings, but instead of having flavors such as butterscotch and cherry, the ice is topped with outrageously read beans, screaming yellow corn and lime green peas. They were sweetened and colorful. The bean ice hit a place a little left of my sweet spot. It was good but definitely not a banana split.

After our shriveled bodies exited the pools, we were treated to a Chinese massage. Each guest was loaned a pair of Chinese PJs to wear. Clad in our PJs, we entered a big room full of rows and rows of beige Lazy Boy style chairs, all  facing the world’s largest plasma screen TV. In this group setting, dozens of guests got the knots and kinks kneaded out of their bodies while watching Chinese game shows.

It felt good.

Better than the feet nibbles.

So that was yesterday.

Today, we are ready for another adventure at the supermarket.

BlueChicken

One Response to “McNibblers”

  1. Ray Says:
    Awesome!

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