Should I try foot massage when I go to Taiwan?

Lucia Ho
4 min readJun 12, 2019

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Sure! Of course! Why not!
This is a perfect way to relax, I can do it every week!

Massage is a common thing in Taiwan, the kind of service can be seen everywhere, and the normal price is NT$400/30 minutes.
The cost has generally accepted price, but the therapist quality not.
So, choose the right massage store is important.
And, this is my favorite massage store — 李炳輝足體養生館。

The massage therapist quality is up to par; any therapist skill is good. And there has many masseur and masseuse can choose, so you don’t need to worry about been touch by the opposite sex.

Why the massage service so popular in Taiwan?
Ethnic Chinese believe that the human body has many acupoints, those acupoints impact your body, so it can be soothing your body via massage the acupoints.

Why is the foot massage?
How do you think about a stranger touch you? How do you feel that ask you into a dark, unfamiliar room and lie down on the bed, back turned to the stranger?
If they steal my money? If the therapist is a killer!
That’s terrible, right?
Choice the foot massage, you don’t need to face the fear, you don’t have the chance to back on to anyone.
Also, your foot contains dozens of acupoints, so it will bring the massage experience to you.

So, what is the process of foot massage?
First is to immerse your foot in warm water. That’s so smart, before the therapist massage your foot, should be washed it, right?
And put your foot into the warm water is a good way to transfer you to the relax status, the therapist will massage your shoulder and your neck at the same time.

After that, your body really relaxed.

Then, you will move to another sofa and start to the foot massage part. You may feel pain sometime, but if you don’t like, you can ask the therapist to do it softer.

I always enjoy the moment, read a book, watch TV at the time.
Oh, by the way, there also provide the TV for you.

If you like it, you can try the body massage.
If you buy the service, the therapist will guide you to a dark room…close the door…then ask you to lie on the bed…

But only for massage, don’t overthink it, haha.
My favorite choice is to spend two hours in the store, one hour for my foot, another hour is for my body.
Also, they have some discount for it, two hours’ charge NT$1,350.

The most important thing is where is the store?!

The store is nearby Ximen, open your Google Map APP and post it 李炳輝足體養生館西門館, you will find it.
So you live in Ximen, congratulations! You can go there every day, if not, don’t worry, the place is easy to go, just 2 minutes away from the MRT stations.

Also, the store is 24hours open! Perfect!

Try it! Now!

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