Thai-style face slapping ‘goes international’ at San Francisco salon

Remember the famous “breast-slapper of Lat Phrao” – the Bangkok beauty technician who claimed to be able to non-surgically enhance bust sizes simply by performing an hour of strategically placed mammary strikes?

Well something similar is afoot across the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco, except now they’re slapping faces.

Tata Massage, which opened yesterday in the city’s Richmond District, claims to enhance the facial beauty of customers with $350 slapping sessions

The new business is owned by Bangkok-native Tata, who promises that the treatment will make people “so beautiful their beauty will charm everyone.”

Local media is having a bit of fun with this one, as happened when Bangkok media discovered Gung-Khemika Na Songkhla’s breast-slapping parlor in Lat Phrao.

Watch below as grizzled San Francisco Chronicle reporter Steve Rubenstein undergoes a treatment, and read his story on it HERE.

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