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Japanese
Take A Dip In A Spicy "Curry" Bath
If UK
restaurateurs are looking for a new idea they might like to follow a
new Japanese example. Japan's 3-billion U.S. dollar hot spring
industry is looking to curry favour -- or curry flavour -- to tempt bathers. |
The Yunessun
Spa Resort in Japan's traditional hot spring town of Hakone has made
a "curry bath," making traditional curry broth into a spicy
spa treatment.
The 30-million
U.S. dollar curry bath offers the smell and feel of the real thing
but is not for human consumption. Vegetables floating in the bath are
made of plastic.
"It feels
like real curry. It's got a nice spicy smell," Kazuki Tanihata,
a 14-year-old middle school student from Yokohama, said after a spa
staffer wearing a blue turban poured the yellow curry treatment on
his shoulder.
Kenichi Aoki,
36, a nurse from Tokyo, said: "Simply put, It's really fun -
both the way it looks and the smell of it. It's my first time to
bathe in curry. My daughter loves it a lot."
Spa officials
say taking a dip in the curry bath is good for health as ingredients
include red pepper and turmeric which both help improve the bathers' metabolism.
"The
curry bath contains red pepper, so it makes you sweat even more.
Other spices like turmeric and orange peel also clear and rejuvenate
your skin," said Yusuke Sato, a Hakone Yunessun Spa Resort spokesman |
