I get frequent Chinatown massages & treatments, so the bare bones aesthetics of the place didn't phase me. I'm also have a background as a natural health practitioner myself (though I don't work too much in that field currently) so I'm very familiar with the various ways reflexology and shiatsu are performed. But I was shocked at how poor the bodywork was here. It literally just felt like she had been randomly called upon to rub my feet and back. There was no proper reflexology technique used, and the "shiatsu" was just her elbows being dug into me. I don't think she actually hit one real pressure point.
To be honest, the level of expertise of the massage here was so low, that I started to suspect that maybe this place was an "exotic" massage parlor and that I'd made a terrible mistake. The fact that I heard several men come in and ask for one particular woman by name didn't help that. Nor did the fact that they used Jerkins and baby oil for the massages. While most of the women working there were dressed in comfy yoga pants, I also was a bit thrown that one employee was wearing heeled wedges and a denim mini skirt (in the middle of winter, no less). It just seemed out of place for any legitimate bodywork establishment.
While my masseuse was certainly pleasant enough, I would *never* return to Sansan.
Not only was the massage terrible, the towels were extremely dingy. Not just a little. A lot.