Foot rub. Portrait 'Asian Body Work' massage shop, basement 'Physical Graffiti Building', 96 's Place, East Village, New
Foot rub. Portrait 'Asian Body Work' massage shop, basement 'Physical Graffiti Building', 96 's Place, East Village, New York. Manhattan. USA. Kai Yue Chinese Tui-Na Salon at 249 East 10th Street. A little seedier is the slightly subterranean Asian massage parlor near the corner of First Avenue, where, when not busy probing knotted muscles, middle-aged Chinese masseuses can be seen slumped on a sofa in the “foyer” gossiping as they eat potent-smelling take-out, their voices like the clacking of dissonant castanets tuned to the scale of a sitar. Occasionally they pay a visit to the sidewalk for a smoke, and their shrewd, seen-it-all eyes size up potential customers in this newly troublesome economy cooked up by those peculiar Americans whose language they either don’t understand or pretend they are unable to.
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