Congen Massage Healthcare Club, Shanghai (also known as Kanjung Massage Centre)

No English spoken by the staff, which isn’t in itself a disadvantage, but as I think I probably shouldn’t have had the cupping and gua sha together it may have been. 

Rough and ready and really painful.  See cupping and gua sha (scraping).

I tried a whole lot of spas in Shanghai and overall my spa recommendation is Dragonfly - great treatment for little more than half the price of The Banyan Tree - but check out the story of my trip for more of my spa adventures in Shanghai.

Don’t get me wrong, some of these are excellent, but I couldn’t, in good conscience give them a Pearl Recommendation.  Sometimes they were just beaten to the punch, or I couldn’t decide a clear winner, other times they had a lot right, but I felt they just weren’t there.  I don’t really want to give bad reviews, but anything I felt was really best avoided you’ll find in the Jellyfish section.