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21 Amazing Bangalore Breakfast Dishes 
China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao 
Why Chinese People Eat Sea Horse 
The Creepiest Amusement Park of All Time? 
Classic Chinese Torture Methods (and their cute names) 
Amazing Old Bollywood Poster Shops 
Beijing’s incredible (and completely fake) Disneyland 
Prosthetic Noses, Red Wigs, and Whiteface… American Characters in Chinese Films 
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay 
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters 
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall 
Why Chinese People Eat Ants 
Nazi Fashion in China 
This Hindu God has 1,000 Vaginas! 
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
Learn How to Speak North Korean 
About Andy Deemer & AsiaObscura 
The Insane Monkey Bar in Tokyo 
Beijing’s Single Most Horrific Meal 
Whoring in Chiang Mai 
The Best Place to Eat and Poop, Together! 
Philadelphia CheeseSteak Ice Cream 
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes 
A Huge Pile of Gorgeous Old Thai Movie Posters - Awesomely Steampunk Portable Corn Roaster
Those Creepy Japanese Videos, Finally Explained 
Why Chinese People Eat Snake as Medicine 
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites 
Pyongyang Too: A Tribute to Guy Delisle 
American Imperialist Bastards in a North Korean Comic Book 
The New iOS Game From the Creators of AsiaObscura 
Red Onion-Flavored Red Wine 
A Huge New Horde of Hand-drawn Indian Movie Posters 
Gorgeously Gory Paintings in a Burmese Temple 
18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell 
The Taj Mahal… Murder, Incest, and Fratricide 
A Postcard from Erenhot 
Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods 
On Horse Meat Sashimi 
Another Diana Pose at the Taj Mahal 
Sweet gruesome statue asking for donations - Why Chinese People Eat Fried Worms
Inspector Black Cat: China’s Gore-Soaked Answer to Tom & Jerry 
Antilia: The Most Gratuitous House in Mumbai 
Porn, Rats, and Antique Projectors at Sri Lanka’s Classic Cinemas 
The Eko Nugroho Flower Suit Lives On 
A Sweet New Batch of Indian Movie Posters 
Plants vs Zombies, The Chinese Knockoff Toys
Category Archives: Shameless Promotion
Shameless Promotion
The New iOS Game From the Creators of AsiaObscura
I haven't been posting much for the last three months. Sorry. Instead, I've been working away on a new iPad game... "The Stormglass Protocol", a room-escape game with all of the dark humor, cult movie references, and snark of AsiaObscura. Elements of 100 Floors, Myst, Lost, and even -- oh, do prepare yourself ...
Shameless Promotion
The Eko Nugroho Flower Suit Lives On
Remember the Eko Nugroho flower suit we spent a month sewing? Well, even though we've left Beijing, the suit lives on! We'd gifted her to the fantastic prog-rock band Not There, and apparently she's been making the rounds. "Thousands" line up in Nanluogu Xiang for photos with her... Strawberry Music Fest 2013 gets a little ...
Shameless Promotion, Sweet Movies and Wild Books, The Zombie Files
On Making Trash Movies
Sorry that I've been so lousy about updating the blog... work in India has gone from regular to quite mad. However, expect a couple of good updates coming soon! In the meantime, I did have time for my first PechaKucha talk, on a lifetime dream that turned out to be more of a nightmare. ...
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Bang! Bang! Bangalore!!!
Living and working in Bangalore is amazing, but the one downside is less travel. At the same time, there's so much awesomeness here. Amazing new foods, temples of gorgeousness, crumbling museums, and people of fascination. Because it's not all obscura, I've launched a brand new city-based blog as a sister to AsiaObscura, ...
Shameless Promotion, Sweet Movies and Wild Books
Japanese Release of Poultrygeist
Five years later, Japan is finally releasing my film Poultrygeist. Very exciting news... but I'd kill for a copy of the poster! Are you in Japan? Can you help me get it? Will gladly provide excellent Indian posters or art (or just hard cold cash) in return! March 23 at ...
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Beat Up Sneakers and Cashmere Hoodies
Thanks to Max for calling our attention to this page in Mark Steyn's New York Times bestseller After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, a book we probably wouldn't have read. In it, he manages to link me to America's impending downfall. I won't comment on his incredibly dank assumptions and horrid factual errors, but I ...
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Bizarre Beijing: CityWeekend’s Tribute to AsiaObscura
Maybe you missed it, but fresh on the heels of their coverage of our taxidermy efforts, the the October issue of CityWeekend was devoted to Bizarre Beijing! Of course their research ended in the pages of AsiaObscura. Heh heh. They recommend - the unmissably gory Daoist statues of Dongyue Temple - the quirk in miniature of ...
Animal Stuffing, Our Weird Projects, Shameless Promotion
CityWeekend Covers AO’s Taxidermy Efforts
Yesterday morning, I exploded with glee when I realized our Pyongyang Too book had been covered in the wonderful Drawn & Quarterly -- a whopping year ago! Now if that wasn't good enough, yesterday was also the release of the new issue of CityWeekend magazine, their back page a very fun article devoted to WooLand, me, ...
Our Weird Projects, Shameless Promotion
French press for “Pyongyang Too”
When Woo and I handed our tribute, Pyongyang Too, to graphic traveleur & comic master Guy Delisle, he seemed taken aback, confused, perplexed. "Thank you," he muttered, unsure of what he was even looking at. (Barbara Demick--author of the DPRK expose/awesomeromance Nothing to Envy--tried to buy it.) Clearly, he later had a chance to ...
Shameless Promotion, The Occult
Phnom Penh Insider Investigates AsiaObscura
A few months ago, we ran a rather scandalous report on the insane ting mong scarecrows we'd spotted in the jungles of Cambodia. They were terrifying, but we knew almost nothing about them. Our driver was vague, the hotel receptionist insisted she'd never seen them before. So we slapped up the photos, ...
AO Events, Shameless Promotion
City Weekend on AsiaObscura
Thanks to the kind folks at City Weekend Beijing, for their lovely interview with TheWooLandHotel about AO! See below for the full interview... Or you can read the interview on City Weekend's website.