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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 
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay 
Beijing’s incredible (and completely fake) Disneyland 
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall 
China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao 
Why Chinese People Eat Ants 
Prosthetic Noses, Red Wigs, and Whiteface… American Characters in Chinese Films 
Learn How to Speak North Korean 
Beijing’s Single Most Horrific Meal 
This Hindu God has 1,000 Vaginas! 
About Andy Deemer & AsiaObscura 
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters 
Nazi Fashion in China 
Small Children Feeding Live Animals to Tigers in a Chinese Zoo 
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites 
Chisney & Koreansney: Local Disney Knockoffs 
Whoring in Chiang Mai 
18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell 
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin 
Another Abandoned Beijing Amusement Park 
Dr Shankar’s Wonderful Collection of Brains and Other Medical Obscura 
The Poem I Can’t Find… 
American Imperialist Bastards in a North Korean Comic Book 
A Huge Pile of Gorgeous Old Thai Movie Posters 
Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods 
Our Six Best China Stories! 
Sweet gruesome statue asking for donations 
Why Chinese People Eat Snake as Medicine 
Porn, Rats, and Antique Projectors at Sri Lanka’s Classic Cinemas - The Disastrous Fall of Sanmao
North Korea frightening customs declarations form 
13 Amazing Indian Circus Posters 
China’s first sci-fi movie: Death Ray on Coral Island (1980) 
Return to Fake Disneyland? Sweeeeeet! 
Relive the Cultural Revolution (aka The Weirdest Dinner Theater in Beijing) - 15 More Pictures from weirdoid Tiger Balm Park
North Korean traffic lights… um… robot ladies. 
A Postcard from Erenhot 
Best Pix from Bangalore’s First Ever ComicCon 
The Incredible Furniture of North Korea 
Pyongyang Too: A Tribute to Guy Delisle 
The Great Chinese Chip Taste-Off 
Metropolis finally finds the right marketing campaign…
Tag Archives: Shanghai
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. ...
Historical Wonders
Mao & Mangoes, Together Again
I recently had the opportunity to sip hot black coffee with a high ranking Pakistani official, and while everyone else is talking Osama and war, we talked fruit. "My basic objective here is to improve the trade between Pakistan and China," he told me. "I'm trying to diversify the trade, to go into newer fields..." He counted ...