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Top Obscura
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 
Learn How to Speak North Korean 
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay 
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall 
Beijing’s incredible (and completely fake) Disneyland 
Beijing’s Single Most Horrific Meal 
Prosthetic Noses, Red Wigs, and Whiteface… American Characters in Chinese Films 
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters 
China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao 
This Hindu God has 1,000 Vaginas! 
Nazi Fashion in China 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
About Andy Deemer & AsiaObscura 
18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell 
Why Chinese People Eat Ants 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
The Poem I Can’t Find… 
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites 
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 
American Imperialist Bastards in a North Korean Comic Book 
Another Abandoned Beijing Amusement Park 
A Postcard from Erenhot 
Dr Shankar’s Wonderful Collection of Brains and Other Medical Obscura - Awesomely Steampunk Portable Corn Roaster
- The Disastrous Fall of Sanmao
Antilia: The Most Gratuitous House in Mumbai 
China’s first sci-fi movie: Death Ray on Coral Island (1980) 
Our Six Best China Stories! 
Chisney & Koreansney: Local Disney Knockoffs 
North Korea frightening customs declarations form 
Porn, Rats, and Antique Projectors at Sri Lanka’s Classic Cinemas 
Relive the Cultural Revolution (aka The Weirdest Dinner Theater in Beijing) 
Medicinal Sea Horse Soup 
Deranged Clown Cream Biscuits 
The Taj Mahal… Murder, Incest, and Fratricide 
Pyongyang Too: A Tribute to Guy Delisle 
Noel Wilson’s Awesome Soccer-Themed House 
Sweet gruesome statue asking for donations 
A Huge Pile of Gorgeous Old Thai Movie Posters 
On Horse Meat Sashimi 
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin - 15 More Pictures from weirdoid Tiger Balm Park
Tag Archives: scary
Historical Wonders, Lost in Translation, Sweet Movies and Wild Books
Pages from an Amazing English Textbook
Back in the cultural revolution, China was in turmoil. Almost anything could get you in trouble. Han Xin, a blacklisted artist, told me that painting the sun the wrong shade of red would mean jail time. Absolutely everything had to be in unquestionable service to Mao and a Maoist China. The only plays were ...
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, ...
Historical Wonders, Modern Ruins
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin
It used to be a retreat. 90 years ago, the French spent 9 months building Bokor Hill Station up as the ultimate getaway: escape from the miserable heat and humidity of Phnom Penh. 900 laborers died while building it, but to the French all these ghosts were worth it. There was a ...
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, ...
Somewhat Perverted
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay
A couple of days ago, I posted my favorite pictures of cute Korean cosplay girls -- but that's the light-hearted side of Korean cosplay. Flip the switch -- today it's time for the dark half. That's right: Korean Nazis! Now many of you are probably horrified. It's still too recent. But the Koreans love ...
The Occult
Insanely Creepy Cambodian Scarecrows
It's so easy to be seduced by the beauty and simple peace of Cambodia... Oh, the temples, the jungles, the country roads. Although behind such breathtaking beauty sometimes there hides a wretched darkness. "Wha? What was that?" The first one we passed, we thought it was a man hiding in a bush. Waving a ...
Uncategorized
Happy Year of the Rabbit! 新年快乐！
(Optimistically cute sign spotted at the Tiger Balm Gardens, a few months ago... the kids loved it!)Updates will be light this week, as Michelle and I are out on the road, exploring more wild China...
Extraordinary Eats
Infiltrating North Korea, in Beijing
I've seen some crazy things in Beijing. This ancient traffic-filled futuristic city was a place of awesomeness until a few nights ago. A few nights ago, we went for North Korean. Someone made a joke, the old yawner about Ethiopian: "They have food?" Evidently. My mom refused to call in the ...