Fish Foot Massage

As a wayfarer my feet take a beating so I should probably get my feet pedicured more often. When I saw a fish foot massage in KL, I had to try it.

Cute Fish Spa

With a fish foot massage you put your feet in a fish tank and the toothless fish nibble at your feet (micro-massaging) eating only dead skin cells.

I was wearing shoes so I was wondering what my tropical feet would do to the fish. I imagined putting my feet in and all these fish floating dead on the water. Lucky for the fish you get to wash your feet first.

Cute Fish Spa

I had a look at the fish before I put my feet in the tank. A woman next to me only had a few fish on her feet. Will they come to me? Well, as soon as I placed my feet in they were swarming all over me. Are they mad! Don’t they know how disgusting my feet are? I had visions of them going home that night and wrapping their little fins around a fish toilet bowl throwing up after what they have just eaten.

Meanwhile the woman next to me was hardly getting a nibble. She must have her feet pedicured daily as the fish weren’t biting.

Cute Fish Spa

I found it tickly in a creepy way at the start, but you soon get used to it. I just had to stop thinking about that movie Piranha and remember these are toothless.

Fish Foot Massage from James Clark on Vimeo.