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Top Obscura
21 Amazing Bangalore Breakfast Dishes 
The Creepiest Amusement Park of All Time? 
China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao 
Why Chinese People Eat Sea Horse 
Classic Chinese Torture Methods (and their cute names) 
Amazing Old Bollywood Poster Shops 
Beijing’s incredible (and completely fake) Disneyland 
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters 
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay 
Prosthetic Noses, Red Wigs, and Whiteface… American Characters in Chinese Films 
Why Chinese People Eat Ants 
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall 
This Hindu God has 1,000 Vaginas! 
Nazi Fashion in China 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
About Andy Deemer & AsiaObscura 
Beijing’s Single Most Horrific Meal 
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes 
Learn How to Speak North Korean 
The Insane Monkey Bar in Tokyo 
Whoring in Chiang Mai 
Those Creepy Japanese Videos, Finally Explained 
A Huge Pile of Gorgeous Old Thai Movie Posters 
Why Chinese People Eat Snake as Medicine 
Philadelphia CheeseSteak Ice Cream 
The Best Place to Eat and Poop, Together! 
A Huge New Horde of Hand-drawn Indian Movie Posters 
Pyongyang Too: A Tribute to Guy Delisle - Awesomely Steampunk Portable Corn Roaster
Red Onion-Flavored Red Wine 
The New iOS Game From the Creators of AsiaObscura 
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites 
Gorgeously Gory Paintings in a Burmese Temple 
18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell 
American Imperialist Bastards in a North Korean Comic Book 
The Taj Mahal… Murder, Incest, and Fratricide 
Sweet gruesome statue asking for donations 
Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods 
A Postcard from Erenhot 
On Horse Meat Sashimi - Why Chinese People Eat Fried Worms
A Sweet New Batch of Indian Movie Posters 
Small Children Feeding Live Animals to Tigers in a Chinese Zoo 
Another Diana Pose at the Taj Mahal 
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 
Mad Costumes Across Asia
Tag Archives: sex
Offbeat Museums
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall
The first time I ever met The Professor, he told me about the eunuch museum. He didn't say much. Just that there was one. In West Beijing. "You really should go," he said. "It's... well, it's interesting." He adjusted his glasses the way a professor should, but he wouldn't say more. ...
Consumerism, Cute & Kawaii, Somewhat Perverted
Sweet Sexy Dolls (and How to Make Your Own)
You've seen those sexy collectable figurines around Asia, right? You know the ones... in Singapore malls, Beijing shopping centers, all over Japan? Nervous kids and creepy adults browsing the aisles... subtly saucy... Creepily paedo... GABOOMBAH with sweet pink hair and sword. Who buys these things? Who actually sets one of these ladies on their shelf, ...
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 ...
Historical Wonders, Life in Miniature, Offbeat Museums, Somewhat Perverted
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes
Yang Shaorong lives in a small Shanghai apartment. He collects women's shoes. Tiny shoes. Shoes for bound feet. "That's horrible," said the publisher of my magazine, when I mentioned Yang the collector to him. "It's a disturbing part of Chinese history." I was confused. I didn't really know much about them, or why he was so upset. ...
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 ...
Offbeat Museums
Chinese Tunnel Warfare and Sexual Escapades, Together!
Jiao Zhibing is 70 years old. He's spent his entire life in a tiny village called Jiaozhuanghu (焦庄户). As a child, he handled missives and reconnaissance for liberation fighters. Today though, carrying wood-carved grenades and a red-tasseled spear everywhere he goes, he's a living tourist attraction. Between 1943 and 1948, China was in ...
Somewhat Perverted, Strange Medicine
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis
Every time I pass by one of those classic Chinese pharmacies, I can't help but stop and wonder... why on earth would someone eat this madness? A few months ago, I decided to find out. This is part three in the "Strange TCM" series, which I started with "eating snake for healthier skin" and "eating ...
Somewhat Perverted, Strange Tourism
Whoring in Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai's an interesting town: a lot like Bangkok, but on a much smaller scale. Hundreds of coffee shops. Great boutiques. And old white men with young Thai girls. Absolutely everywhere. Old hippies with Thai women in their 40s, and adorable little hapa kids. Bald and bearded bikers with chubby teenagers. Backpackers with stunning beauties. ...