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21 Amazing Bangalore Breakfast Dishes 
The Creepiest Amusement Park of All Time? 
Amazing Old Bollywood Poster Shops 
Classic Chinese Torture Methods (and their cute names) 
China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao 
Beijing’s incredible (and completely fake) Disneyland 
Why Chinese People Eat Sea Horse 
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay 
This Hindu God has 1,000 Vaginas! 
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters 
Why Chinese People Eat Ants 
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall 
Prosthetic Noses, Red Wigs, and Whiteface… American Characters in Chinese Films 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
Nazi Fashion in China 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin 
A Huge Pile of Gorgeous Old Thai Movie Posters 
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes 
Beijing’s Single Most Horrific Meal 
The Insane Monkey Bar in Tokyo 
Learn How to Speak North Korean 
The Eko Nugroho Flower Suit Lives On 
About Andy Deemer & AsiaObscura 
Those Creepy Japanese Videos, Finally Explained 
Whoring in Chiang Mai 
Why Chinese People Eat Snake as Medicine 
Philadelphia CheeseSteak Ice Cream 
A Huge New Horde of Hand-drawn Indian Movie Posters 
Pyongyang Too: A Tribute to Guy Delisle 
American Imperialist Bastards in a North Korean Comic Book 
The Best Place to Eat and Poop, Together! 
Eko Nugroho, We Love You. So we made a costume to prove it. 
The New iOS Game From the Creators of AsiaObscura 
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites - Awesomely Steampunk Portable Corn Roaster
Red Onion-Flavored Red Wine 
Small Children Feeding Live Animals to Tigers in a Chinese Zoo 
18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell 
A Sweet New Batch of Indian Movie Posters 
Great New Indian Sidewalk Movie Posters 
Sweet gruesome statue asking for donations 
Gorgeously Gory Paintings in a Burmese Temple 
Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods 
Plants vs Zombies, The Chinese Knockoff Toys 
A Postcard from Erenhot - Why Chinese People Eat Fried Worms
Porn, Rats, and Antique Projectors at Sri Lanka’s Classic Cinemas 
The Cockiest Shrine in Bangkok 
Antilia: The Most Gratuitous House in Mumbai
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Sweet Movies and Wild Books
A Lovely Moment from Ghungroo
Standing alone, so desperately alone, she waits outside the Odeon. Will he come? Oh, will he ever come? This lobby card for Rajendra Jain's Ghungroo, which I pulled ripped and bent from a stack at Balaji's Rare Antiques, reminds me of college. Although I didn't wear a sari.
Copyright Carelessness, Fashionista
Best Skirt in the Worst Spot Possible
You may have seen my post about the Red Restaurant, where dancers, singers and audiences recreate and celebrate the years of famine and starvation of the Great Leap Forward, and the torture and slaughter of the Cultural Revolution. Something I left out was this lady. While many were dressed in the red guard dress of ...
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 ...
Historical Wonders, Sweet Movies and Wild Books
China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao
Not many foreigners know about Sanmao. Here in China, though, he’s bigger than Disney. He's as prone to mischief as Bart Simpson. As endlessly honest as Richie Rich. And as dark as Charlie Brown. Darker. Even though Sanmao comics are as much for kids as they are adults, they're filled with death, ...
Holy Curiosities
Giving Babies The Right Way
Okay, okay, I've been dwelling on the dark side of Taoism for too long. Sure, 19 Incredible Taoist Gods was an awesome series of sweet court officer pix, and Terrible Moments from a Taoist Temple was a collection of terrifying dioramas, but what about the lighter, cuter side of the religion? Is there one? ...
Historical Wonders, Sweet Movies and Wild Books
Red Detachment of Awesome
This Wednesday thru Friday, if you're in Beijing, you shouldn't miss the best of the "model operas," The Red Detachment of Women (红色娘子军). Playing for three nights only at Poly Plaza. It's called a model opera, but it's actually a ballet. The eight model operas were, during the height of the cultural ...
May 23, 2011 / Comments Off
Historical Wonders, Holy Curiosities
Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods
So the rapture left you behind, eh? Feeling cheated? Looking for a new deity? Try Taoism. These gods will kick your ass! Okay, maybe not all of them. Some, like this swarthy fellow, will just make sure when you're reborn, you'll get your deserved rank. Fail to accomplish enough good in this ...
Historical Wonders, Holy Curiosities
The Mystery of Shuanglin’s Scooped-Eye Statues
A $2 tuktuk ride from the ancient city of Pingyao 平遥, in the deserts of Shanxi Province, there's a wonderful little temple called Shuanglin Temple (双林寺). The name translates to something like A Pair of Forests Temple. Cute. Inside, though, you'll find a strange sight. Walk to the back, and you'll come across the Goddess Temple, ...
Historical Wonders, Holy Curiosities, Offbeat Museums, The Occult
The Craziest Holy Sculptor in Laos
The long, slow, dusty bus-ride cost 20 cents and took lord knows how long. But eventually it delivered us to the incredible Buddha Park. You see, 40 or so years ago, some loony Lao was hiking along a remote mountain trace, accidentally tripped, and fell into a hole. A deep hole. It was a lot like ...