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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 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
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: Singapore
Holy Curiosities, Theme Parks
15 More Pictures from weirdoid Tiger Balm Park
AsiaObscura friend Dawn Xiana Moon (dawnxianamoon.com) sent over a pile more pix from the absolutely incredible statues and terrifying dioramas at Tiger Balm Park aka Har Paw Villa. See our original story here, or click on her pix below for full-sized versions....
Holy Curiosities, Theme Parks
The Creepiest Amusement Park of All Time?
Singapore is bland. It's a high-priced row of shopping malls and fine eateries, with a few hawker markets thrown in. "It's soooooo boring," warned my hairdresser Miss P. But then you stumble on something like this. The Tiger Balm Gardens: The most disturbing theme park of all time. There's sex, violence, bear-maulings and scabies. ...
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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
Chippy’s British Takeaway
What passes for English cuisine in Singapore mall culture. (Found, but not sampled, in the basement of Plaza Singapura Mall.)