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The Creepiest Amusement Park of All Time?
China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao
Classic Chinese Torture Methods (and their cute names)
Amazing Old Bollywood Poster Shops
Beijing’s incredible (and completely fake) Disneyland
Why Chinese People Eat Sea Horse
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters
Prosthetic Noses, Red Wigs, and Whiteface… American Characters in Chinese Films
Why Chinese People Eat Ants
This Hindu God has 1,000 Vaginas!
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall
Nazi Fashion in China
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong)
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin
About Andy Deemer & AsiaObscura
Beijing’s Single Most Horrific Meal
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes
The Insane Monkey Bar in Tokyo
Whoring in Chiang Mai
A Huge Pile of Gorgeous Old Thai Movie Posters
Learn How to Speak North Korean
Those Creepy Japanese Videos, Finally Explained
Why Chinese People Eat Snake as Medicine
The Best Place to Eat and Poop, Together!
Philadelphia CheeseSteak Ice Cream
Awesomely Steampunk Portable Corn Roaster
Pyongyang Too: A Tribute to Guy Delisle
A Huge New Horde of Hand-drawn Indian Movie Posters
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18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell
Red Onion-Flavored Red Wine
Gorgeously Gory Paintings in a Burmese Temple
American Imperialist Bastards in a North Korean Comic Book
Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites
Why Chinese People Eat Fried Worms
Sweet gruesome statue asking for donations
A Postcard from Erenhot
On Horse Meat Sashimi
The Taj Mahal… Murder, Incest, and Fratricide
Small Children Feeding Live Animals to Tigers in a Chinese Zoo
A Sweet New Batch of Indian Movie Posters
Antilia: The Most Gratuitous House in Mumbai
Another Diana Pose at the Taj Mahal
The Eko Nugroho Flower Suit Lives On
Porn, Rats, and Antique Projectors at Sri Lanka’s Classic Cinemas
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Tag Archives: Japan
Shameless Promotion, Sweet Movies and Wild Books
Japanese Release of Poultrygeist
Consumerism, Cute & Kawaii
Mr. Chiizu: Great New Photobooth App

I stumbled into an old karaoke pal on twitter this weekend. He's now developing iPhone apps. His latest? A stickerbooth app for the iPhone, called Mr. Chiizu. A thing of wonder. Okay, okay, there are no stickers. But also no wading through incomprehensible directions while a Gangnam shopkeeper mocks you in sprawling Korean. No frantically ...
Extraordinary Eats
On Horse Meat Sashimi

It finally happened. We ordered the horse sashimi. "You want what?" said the waiter, unsure. "Horse meat," I slurred in Chinese, that last bottle of sake harming my already-poor pronunciation. "Raw horse meat." The waiter looked at WooLand, who wasn't listening, and then at me, and he finally shrugged and wrote it down. Clearly ...
Somewhat Perverted
Those Creepy Japanese Videos, Finally Explained

If you've been wondering about the creepy Japanese videos I've been posting -- videos of girls staring blankly at the camera for a minute, then uttering a single short phrase -- I'm finally ready to offer an explanation. They're called "ミテルだけ" (pronounced "miteru dake") which means "Just Looking" or "Only Looking." I first heard about ...
Cute & Kawaii, Extraordinary Eats
Soy Sauce Kit Kats (and other awesome flavors)
Cute & Kawaii, Somewhat Perverted
And we’re back…

Sorry for the silence. China got wise to the VPN, and issues had to be resolved. But we're back. Hopefully for a while, at least.While we pop the bottles of silkworm baijiu and seahorse bourbon, here's a photo from last night's dinner at Beijing's newest maid cafe. (Sure, Japan had sexy 19th century French maids ...
Extraordinary Eats
The Most Divine Piece of Sushi

This was something I've never seen before. I found it in Hakone, a small mountain town. (Across the road from 7-11. Sliding slat door, with no windows.) Maybe the roll was called Namaji Rasu, and maybe it's called Shirasu. But either way, it was incredible, deliciously sweet, and so unbelievably weird. Tiny fishies, with big eyes, ...
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Old Pirate Ships in Old Japan
Cute & Kawaii, Somewhat Perverted
Hunting French Maids in Tokyo

Fashion: Pink is everywhere, lace is everywhere, it's the Lolita look. But the real style de saison is dressing like a 19th Century French Maid. It's weird, but it's everywhere! Even white girls are buying in! And so, of course, a world of maid-staffed businesses have appeared. They have maid bars, maid cafes, even ...
Extraordinary Eats
Sucking on Sour: The Miracle Berry aka Miracle Fruit

Tokyo Mission #2: Miracle Fruit! I'd heard about Miracle Fruit at a hipster science conference in New York a few years ago, and had dreams of them ever since. History: in the 1700s, an explorer moved into a West African village. Everything was great, except the food -- it was horrible! Sour, disgusting, ...
Offbeat Museums
Tokyo’s Creepy Parasite Museum
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Eating Diaphram in Tokyo

Another of Tokyo's "best meal" contenders was Toraji Param, a Korean hormone restaurant on the 500-something-th floor of some fancy Tokyo building. As the elevator flew up the 5000 flights, my ears popped. At our table, floor-to-ceiling windows showed off all of Tokyo. It was jaw-dropping, to put it mildly. And then the ...
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