Susannah & I @ a Dr. Fish Cafe
Susannah not loving the big fish nibblers!
These guys ranged from about 2-3 inches I'd say
These were the little nibblers!Who would have thought a Saturday night could be enjoyably spent having your feet nibbled on by fish?! ~Since being in Korea, I've always wanted to check out the "Dr.Fish Cafes" they have around here. You can sip a beverage and get a pedicure- from the fish. They like to eat the dead skin cells off your feet! ~ Gross right? I'd say so....I am a person who has insanely sensitive feet so I thought this might be a bit challenging. Well, as we found out, we couldn't drink our beers as the fish had a buffet, we had to drink and then do it (I guess it makes sense- what if your beer fell into the fish tank?? Then again, it might make the fish hungrier~ Drunk snack time?)
After peeking into both tanks, after we already paid our $2 for 15-20 mins, I thought it would be good to start with the little fish...they weren't so intimidating being only about 1 inch long ...obviously it tickled- a lot. They would try and squirm their way into your toes. There was a guy sitting next to me and it was so weird- they were trying to navigate their way through his leg hair- gross. The sensation on your feet was pretty minimal so I decided to check out the bigger fish...
Well these were really intimidating~ like I said, 2-3 inches long, I felt like they could potentially bite off my baby toe, right? No...now that's exaggerating a little...I didn't want to shove my whole foot in, not really knowing what to expect, so I just rested my heels in....WOW~ they came feasting!! Haha....This was more intense, like someone was scratching your feet. It was too weird to dunk my whole foot in so I just kept it resting for a bit until other people came and joined so the fish could have other people's feet to deal with. After awhile I was able to rest my whole foot in but if they came near my toes, game over. I couldn't deal with that.
Overall~ an enjoyable experience!! Did it really work? Perhaps if I had sat there for a longer time, I felt that 15 mins wasn't really long enough~ another day...definitely something I'd suggest to people as a unique thing to do!
