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Pedicure

 One thing I was looking forward to moving to China were cheap pedicures so I could keep my feet exfoliated.  Once again, things were not as I expected!

The girls and I found a little shop in the mall that was called "Best Nail".  We went in and I used my semi-reliable translator app to ask for 3 pedicures. (Semi-reliable because I can't rely on it to make much sense!)  The girl spoke Chinese back to me and in my very best Chinese I replied with my trusty phrase "I don't speak Chinese." She became clearly frustrated and pointed to a QR code for me to scan.  Then she took my phone and added me as a friend on WeChat.  WeChat, I learned, also has a lovely translation feature.  Sweet. Here is our conversation, please note that I had no idea how to respond to most of these!

Once we chose our colors the girls were ushered to a seat and water in the tea kettle was set to steam. 
The exfoliation consisted of about 1 minute 37 seconds of a foot bath time and a pat dry with a paper towel.  Then they filed off all of the existing toenail polish with a nail file. No nail polish remover here??
At this point I started calculating that each of these pedicures is $19.  Super pricey for what we're getting and I decided to opt out and just be the photographer.
But!! They each got about 8 layers of toenail polish so it shouldn't come off for the whole time we are here!
I understand that it's the foot massages here that are worth getting.  Mr. Hu has promised Tom they will go for one.  Maybe I'll try that!

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