Last friday was the birthday of a colleague, we had to celebrate that... let's go to bia hoi!
Conveniently, our boss were not there and the idea to go to some bath & massage place in the countryside popped quickly during lunch. Although, it was raining and the decision was made to go to a classic massage, tam quat, nearby.
When i say classic, i mean in the vietnamese way:
Traditional medicinal vietnamese massage
As you can see it's very tradtionnal but if you prefer boyz it may be possible,
samson example (not kinky at all...unfortunately :p).
Actually, i really disliked that because it was obvious it was a place for happy ending as the masseuse acting quite frankly (seating on me in a very direct way, touching everywhere, etc). I was also displeased by colleagues thinking i would enjoy that but... actually they were not surprised i disliked that.I forgot, the masseuse was a girl and not pretty :p.
Conclusion
Vietnamese birthday coworkers parties suck: bad food, (bad) beer, bad massage.
Note
i'm thinking more and more prostitution, maybe "soft" like this or not, is so common in Vietnam because:
- You see many massage/haircut/tam quat/karaoke om (om means to hold someone like you do as a passenger on a mototaxi: "xe om") places with pink light, frosted glass and opened very late
- You can see them everywhere (countryside, city center, surbubs, etc)
- A colleague had his first time there and was ready to bring there too
- Another colleague go there from now and then
- I even experienced proposition for this kind of service in a traditional medecine institute which seems perfectly ok before
