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I find "authentic" is hipster for "skunjey like I anticipate the original is based on my orientalist appreciation of foreigners." It's a way to say "if you don't like it it's because you don't revel in play-acting." Voda is authentic AF down to the fact that 80% of the people there are Mafiya. It's also clean and frickin' sybaritic. Like $50 to get in, tho and built in an old crematorium. The tracks leading into the furnace in the hot banya take some getting used to. I got an extraordinarily bad massage as part of a package deal at Q on New Years in 2017. I still have trigger finger from it.