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The Creepiest Amusement Park of All Time? 
21 Amazing Bangalore Breakfast Dishes 
Why Chinese People Eat Sea Horse 
Classic Chinese Torture Methods (and their cute names) 
Amazing Old Bollywood Poster Shops 
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall 
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay 
Beijing’s incredible (and completely fake) Disneyland 
China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao 
Prosthetic Noses, Red Wigs, and Whiteface… American Characters in Chinese Films 
Beijing’s Single Most Horrific Meal 
Why Chinese People Eat Ants 
This Hindu God has 1,000 Vaginas! 
Learn How to Speak North Korean 
18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell 
About Andy Deemer & AsiaObscura 
Nazi Fashion in China 
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters 
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
The Poem I Can’t Find… 
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes 
Small Children Feeding Live Animals to Tigers in a Chinese Zoo 
Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods 
Why Chinese People Eat Snake as Medicine 
Whoring in Chiang Mai 
Our Six Best China Stories! 
American Imperialist Bastards in a North Korean Comic Book 
A Postcard from Erenhot 
Chisney & Koreansney: Local Disney Knockoffs 
Another Abandoned Beijing Amusement Park 
Dr Shankar’s Wonderful Collection of Brains and Other Medical Obscura 
Porn, Rats, and Antique Projectors at Sri Lanka’s Classic Cinemas 
Relive the Cultural Revolution (aka The Weirdest Dinner Theater in Beijing) - The Disastrous Fall of Sanmao
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin 
Medicinal Sea Horse Soup - 15 More Pictures from weirdoid Tiger Balm Park
- Awesomely Steampunk Portable Corn Roaster
China’s first sci-fi movie: Death Ray on Coral Island (1980) 
North Korea frightening customs declarations form 
Sweet gruesome statue asking for donations 
On Horse Meat Sashimi 
Pyongyang Too: A Tribute to Guy Delisle 
The Taj Mahal… Murder, Incest, and Fratricide 
North Korean traffic lights… um… robot ladies. 
The Great Chinese Chip Taste-Off 
A Huge Pile of Gorgeous Old Thai Movie Posters 
Noel Wilson’s Awesome Soccer-Themed House
Tag Archives: Mongolia
Somewhat Perverted, Strange Tourism
A Postcard from Erenhot
Two small dogs are attacking a homeless man, while I'm nursing my lingering fever with sidewalk kebabs and a bottle of Yanjing beer. One of them bites at his ankle, and he hobbles away, cursing while diners beside me laugh, and the wind picks up again. I shield my face from the sand. This ...
Consumerism
Fantastic Hot Dog Advertising
I can't imagine a stranger way to advertise a hot dog, really. As seen in Ulan Bator, the Mongolian capital.
The Occult
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Mongolia)
"I don't think you can see the Shamen," the fixer murmured. He watched his cup, the table, a fly, anything that wasn't our eyes. "They are far from here. In the mountains. It would take a long time to see them." He traced a line along a creased map of ...
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Mystery, Intrigue, Trans-Siberian Express
To get from Beijing to Mongolia, you have a few choices. A flight takes just over an hour. The Trans-Siberian Express, meanwhile, offers a rugged thirty-hour ride through cities, towns, barren landscapes, desert, and finally the capital of Chingghis Khan.It's a famously hard ride. I pictured drunk Russians and fiery Mongols and live chickens and ...
Pretty Pictures
Yak Man
Wolves had come down from the hills, and torn apart a horse. The villagers were building new sheds, to keep the young lambs and goats in, and bringing in all the animals. It was a moment.
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Awesome Mongolian Pop Star
I don't really know who this guy is, but I found him in a restaurant in the rural one-pony town of Lun.
Copyright Carelessness
Classy Bottles of Booze Found on the China / Mongolia Border
"大Party" translates to "BigParty." I like.