By Georgia Feldmanis December 14, 2015 / 17:51 HKT
The Hong Kong woman who says thanks through massages / Photos: Focus Taiwan & rhythmuswege via Pixabay
In a story that makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside, a Hong Kong woman is offering free traditional Chinese massages to the people of Taiwan to thank them for their kindness while she was travelling there. Naww!
Yeung Mui-chun told Focus Taiwanthat she struggled to communicate with local Taiwanese residents when she first visited the country five years ago. She had to rely heavily on body language, she recalls, as her thick Cantonese accent was hard to understand.
Given the communication issue, Yeung was pleasantly surprised by the graciousness of the people she met. Whenever she asked for directions, for example, she found that the majority of people would actually take her to destination, with some even offering to carry her heavy bags.
They were either really nice or she looked really pathetic. Let's be optimistic and go for the former.
From that first trip, Yeung was smitten. She decided to revisit Taiwan a year later to start learning the piano (as you do), and now travels back every few months to take flute lessons. She really has no faith in Hong Kong’s musicians, does she?
On one fateful trip last year, Yeung met an elderly lady who was struggling with hand pain. Thankfully, Yeung was there to dish out a trusty traditional Chinese massage, thus inspiring her to start offering her skills pro-bono.
Yeung’s Taiwanese friends helped her to establish a free massage service in Taipei thereafter. Now, every time she travels to the island for her flute lessons, Yeung treats five residents to a free massage. So far her healing hands have helped a lady with dodgy heels and a man with a frozen shoulder.
Let’s just hope she actually knows what she’s doing and her generosity is taking her away from flute practice.
http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2015/12/14/hong-kong-woman-hands-out-free-massages-taiwan-say-thanks-friendly-locals
