My feet in a pool of hungry fish.
Notice how there aren't that many fish eating my feet?...
Well that's because Walter's crusty toe jam filled
feet were too delicious to for the fish to waste too much
time eating anyone else's feet.
Thank God for Wally. With the few fish that actually were eating my feet I was laughing hysterically for 10 minutes straight. It's one of the most ticklish things I have ever experienced. Oh and I forgot to mention that this place is not a spa, it's a coffee shop called Dr. Fish. So basically you order your Mocchacino (or your drink of choice), stop by the free snack bar (with waffles, popcorn etc.) and take it all to a table or the tanks and fill your belly while the fish simultaneously fill theirs. Well that's actually a lie the fish don't really ever fill their belly's completely because they're constantly pooping out long strings of...dead skin?
Now, back to "no fishing". This is a term used by my children at school when I fake them out. It pretty much means "no faking". This all comes from a language in Korea called Konglish. It sounds like English (ok well at least it's supposed to), it looks like English but the terms and words take on different "Korean" meanings. Thus, it isn't English. The entire Konglish movement is sort of an attestment to how hard it is for Koreans to learn English. Not only is their native language the complete opposite of English in everyway (reversed sentence structure, completely different alphabet etc.) but the few English words they do know mean something entirely different to them than they do to the rest of the world. Here are a few more Konglish words and their meanings: "service" = it's free, "set" = combo, "ok ok ok ok ok" = ok (as in ok and I'm not trying to be rude and cut you off by talking over you and saying ok 10 milllion times....it's just Konglish).
Imagine the confusion when Koreans travel to North America and see signs that say "No fishing"!!! "Oh my God!" <------ (another Korean favourite!)
Notice how there aren't that many fish eating my feet?...
Well that's because Walter's crusty toe jam filled
feet were too delicious to for the fish to waste too much
time eating anyone else's feet.
Thank God for Wally. With the few fish that actually were eating my feet I was laughing hysterically for 10 minutes straight. It's one of the most ticklish things I have ever experienced. Oh and I forgot to mention that this place is not a spa, it's a coffee shop called Dr. Fish. So basically you order your Mocchacino (or your drink of choice), stop by the free snack bar (with waffles, popcorn etc.) and take it all to a table or the tanks and fill your belly while the fish simultaneously fill theirs. Well that's actually a lie the fish don't really ever fill their belly's completely because they're constantly pooping out long strings of...dead skin?
Now, back to "no fishing". This is a term used by my children at school when I fake them out. It pretty much means "no faking". This all comes from a language in Korea called Konglish. It sounds like English (ok well at least it's supposed to), it looks like English but the terms and words take on different "Korean" meanings. Thus, it isn't English. The entire Konglish movement is sort of an attestment to how hard it is for Koreans to learn English. Not only is their native language the complete opposite of English in everyway (reversed sentence structure, completely different alphabet etc.) but the few English words they do know mean something entirely different to them than they do to the rest of the world. Here are a few more Konglish words and their meanings: "service" = it's free, "set" = combo, "ok ok ok ok ok" = ok (as in ok and I'm not trying to be rude and cut you off by talking over you and saying ok 10 milllion times....it's just Konglish).
Imagine the confusion when Koreans travel to North America and see signs that say "No fishing"!!! "Oh my God!" <------ (another Korean favourite!)
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