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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 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
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
Tag Archives: India
Sweet Movies and Wild Books
Rajnikanth the Superstar
I couldn't resist adding a second clip from Adhisaya Piravi, Rajnikanth's 1990 epic. "Whatever you hear," says the gangster to his bodyguards, "screams, punches, cries for help... I don't want you to turn around." Then Rajini the Superstar just happens to drive by. Such bizarre new wave editing. And what a hero.
Sweet Movies and Wild Books
The Amazing Indian Amazing Spider-Man Poster
My Bangalore pal Hannah just came across this new Ramachandraiah movie poster... Absolutely gorgeous -- I love it!
Sweet Movies and Wild Books
Another Indian Film Still
Also found in a crate in Mumbai. Something about her was so desperate, filled me with angst and longing. Is that a wedding poster in her hand? Is she Vijay's bride, or is she his one true love, and she's just discovered he's getting an arranged marriage this afternoon??? I'd love to know who she ...
Strange Tourism
AsiaObscura is Moving to India
In a bit of a fit of madness, Michelle and I have decided to move to India. Instead of doing things in a long, planned out way, we've decided to jump boat asap. We decided on June 8th. For the last few days, I've been calmly insisting we have five weeks. Yesterday ...
Sweet Movies and Wild Books
A Brief Aside on Dr Rajkumar, the James Bond of Southern India
Alone in the hotel, drinking Kingfisher and watching old Karanataka films. In 1981's Keralida Simha, an honest cop has to break up a party of riotous and drugged out delinquents. And it's something akin to poetry. I don't know much about Kannada cinema -- it's called Sandalwood -- but the cop with the sweet mustache ...
Lost in Translation
A Sweet Series of Chinglishy Gift Fails
Christmas wrapping paper always works well. Especially for Papa Pickles' belated birthday present... But the wrapping paper turned out to be a little more generic than we'd expected. And the greeting card, which Woo bought in Bangalore, turned out to have a rather unexpected adhesive. That's right, as in the maxi pads. At least we didn't have to ...
Holy Curiosities
Sweet & Holy “No Pissing” Signage
If there's a wall in India, someone's planning to treat it like a latrine or a dump. Official signs, unofficial pleas, it doesn't matter. Notice the dribbles of urinet spray below. What if you tried painting a Hindu god or two on the wall? Surely that would help. Is that spray diarrheal??? Really?!!?!? ...
Holy Curiosities
Jesus and Mary in a Little Indian Boat
It’s Good Friday, and so why not mention this delightful little boat I pass every day? It gives passage to Baby Jesus and Mama Mary, who endlessly sail the open seas of Bangalore’s Shanthinagar district. Of course, by “open seas” I mean a dirty, dusty, honking, traffic jam. And by “sail,” I mean sits on top ...
Historical Wonders
Obama and Hitler, Together at Last
On sale in the Bangalore airport, right now: Historical Heroes, the complete DVD set. Which of these people doesn't fit? (Was this produced by Rush Limbaugh????) That's right... Che, MLK, Himmler (?), Castro, Hitler, Mussolini and Obama, all under the loving gaze of Obi Wan Gandhi. In Asia, Hitler isn't a bad guy. He ...
Our Weird Projects, Sweet Movies and Wild Books
A Sweet New Batch of Indian Movie Posters
I just got some lo-res photos of the new batch of 20" by 30" hand-drawn litho-printed Sandalwood/Kannada movie posters, and they're fantastic! (If you missed reading about Raju, who draws a new movie poster every three hours, and the 1901 litho machine they're printed on, go now!) I have 100 of each of these, ...
Our Weird Projects, Sweet Movies and Wild Books
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters
Ramachandraiah prints movie posters for a living. He's done it ever since 1971, when he bought an ancient lithograph press. He keeps it in a factory north of Bangalore, far from the English town where it was built 111 years ago. Most movie posters here are lavish. They're digitally-printed, full-color, and reach up to 30 ...
Consumerism, Lost in Translation
Black Friday Special: Four Products You Shouldn’t Live Without
Trauma Relieving Spray Krack Clit A Free Shart
Strange Medicine
This Has To Be The Worst Massage Of All Time
I found this lovely flyer in our swank Pondicherry hotel room... Couldn't help remembering this place I happened on in Bangkok:
Consumerism
Why India is Set to Succeed
They even name their fast food restaurants after doctoral degrees. Now that's awesome.
Modern Ruins, Theme Parks
Wonderfully Crumbling Old Cardboard Castle
Just off the beaches of Chennai, covered in crow guano, trash and cow dung, lies the creepily gorgeous ruins of the Snowball amusement park. Paint was peeling off the walls. So was the plaster. Heck, even the walls were peeling off the walls. Nests cluttered the turrets, and empty windows peered into nothingness. I snapped ...
Holy Curiosities
Sweet gruesome statue asking for donations
(Also known as "The most bad-ass 'donations please' advertisement ever conceived" - io9) Halfway between the hippie-mainstay Pondicherry and proto-Jonestown Auroville lies this incredible 15-foot-tall Indian shrine of some awful crime in progress. Evisceration, again! But this wasn't just any old gutting-for-god shrine -- it was an eye-catching call for cash. The local village was ...