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China's 24-Hour SPA Complexes: Eat, Soak, Sleep — Is It a "SPA"?
A "China spa" is often a full building: pools, scrub stations, food courts, and sometimes a place to sleep — one wristband logs almost everything you add.
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Chinese Foot Massage: From Your Soles Up — It Does Not Stop at Your Ankles
Ads say soles to scalp; the honest version is feet, calves, and often shoulders — same room, same soak, same remote for the TV.
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Cuozao: The Chinese Bathhouse Scrub — What the Videos Leave Out
The scrub in your feed is normal in northern bath culture — and plenty of Chinese travelers from the south have never tried it either. Here is the real order of operations.
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Northeast China: Why Some People Joke Their Soul Got “Polished” After a Scrub
Long winters made bathhouses a social hub in Northeast China; today many Shenyang-scale venues stack pools, buffets, and lounges in one building — cuozao is still the peak moment.
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