Yang Sheng Foot Spa — Local services in Houston

I love finding new authentic Chinese Foot Massage / Reflexology parlors every where I travel. Funny thing is the way they do the massages are very similar from coast to coast. Must be some ancient Chinese method of training they all learn and use. What varies is the skill of the masseuse.

Most of these places have one person at the front desk who speaks broken English well enough to understand what type massage you want, and the actual masseurs normally only speak Chinese. My buddy and I go to these place together often and we both speak minimal Chinese, which helps some, but is not necessary. It's also a good way we can talk business, and they have no idea what we are saying, haha.

You normally leave your clothes on for this type massage, or you may strip down to your underwear if you prefer. They begin by soaking your feet in very hot, yet soothing water for about 15 minutes. While your feet soak, they start with you on your back, lying down, and begin to massage your head and face. Then work their way down your arms to your fingers.

They are sensitive to your bodies reaction, if they think they are being to hard or too soft, they can change it up as needed, as each person is different. They then spend about 30 minutes working on your feet, and my o my is it a pain that feels so good, ha. The for about the last 15 minutes you flip over onto your stomach and they can massage, with very hot stones, your back. AAhhhh... so relaxing, when finished you want to fall asleep.

One of our friends laughed at us for saying the petite Chinese lady rubbed our feet so hard it hurt, until he discovered, it can be painful when they deeply press and kneed into the soles of your feet, but in a very therapeutic way, that you will be happy for when they finish. You're feet will love you for it afterwards, ha.

This location is in the Chinatown district, and seemed to have some of the lowest prices. This is for legit massages, no hanky panky happy endings here. So it's a family friendly type place great for teenagers to adults, both male and female to come here for massages.

You can also request a male or female masseur. As some people are weird about what sex will be touching them during the massage, hahaha. I do not care and have had both, the main difference is the men are usually stronger and can give you a harder, deeper massage. But both the men and women are trained and do excellent jobs.

I recommend this location, and if you have any fear of going to a massage parlor, don't worry, it's not sleazy or sexual in any way. And your feet and body will love you for it. Plus most places are only about $25 to $35 per hour, so well worth it.

We went here twice in one week, and I had their biggest guy work on me, and man, he made me cringe and grunt with pain, as he worked my feet and legs. My buddies were in the room across the hall, laughing at me for making noise, it was funny. Once he was done, the Edema in my feet and legs had been mostly squeezed like a ketchup packet back up into my body, and I felt great!

This location did a great job, I...

So this was good and bad experience at the same time... The massage itself was good. Now the missus was terrible! The men smelled like cigarettes, was falling asleep doing my feet, but that's not the worst part...as he was doing my back in separate room, he actually took a picture of my back as I was laying face down!!! Afterwards when I was paying I decided to not tip high, as my experience was pretty bad, my receipt was given back to me with words "no, it's too little, tip more"... I reaaaaly not recommend to go there , there's tons of nicer...

I had a lovely experience (they were even open for the holiday)...the lady was very nice on the phone...the music was nice and calming and the dark/red lighting in my room was very warm and relaxing...my massage therapist was very into helping alleviate my neck/shoulder pain (he really went above and beyond). I left feeling very relaxed and cared for. I highly recommend it for the price/value. My only con is that whenever someone comes in the front door, it makes a...