Malaysia

The best place to cut and wash hair for guys is probably one of the hairdressing salons located Jalan Keris, at Elite Hair Salon along one of the many shophouses at Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The shop is exactly opposite Da Ma Hua Yuan (if you know where the street food haven is located).

Managed by two elderly sisters, Josephine and younger sister Janet Kwan, it is by far one of the best old style hair salon that provides good value and great friendly service to their regular customers. We stumbled upon the hair salon by trial and error and it has become one of our favourite places to visit on our ad hoc trips into JB. The salon is located a hundred metres from our favourite seafood restaurant known as New Lucky Seafood Restaurant. They also provide ear digging service, which is out of this world. No hair salon in Singapore does it these days, or at least the ones that I usually go to do not have the space to handle such a service.

What I love most about the cut and wash is the neck and shoulder massage which goes on and on for many rounds. The problem with Singaporean hair salons is that they have grown professional and business-like in their service to their customers. Some don’t event offer massage as part of their hairdressing service. Can’t wait.