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The 4 legendary beauties of China

Chinese women are well known throughout the world for their feminine beauty and if one were to ask who are the prettiest Chinese girls of China, you’d be flooded with answers of personal favouri…

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Posted by Raziel on November 2nd, 2008 in Celebrities and fame, asia, china, culture | No Comments

What’s a Chinese Chinese anyways?

It’s a common misconception that Chinese are a race of people with yellow skin tone, single lid slant eyes, straight black hair and blunt features. But fact of the matter is, that’s just s…

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Posted by Raziel on November 1st, 2008 in Celebrations & festivals, asia, china, culture, travel | 1 Comment

Know your Asian Ghosties: Hantu Tengelong (Part 3 of 3)

Why the belief in her is dying out – Raz’ theory
Modernisation doesn’t just ravish nature, it also ravishes culture. As you can see, the Hantu Penanggalan folklore requires the follo…

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Posted by Raziel on October 31st, 2008 in East Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, asia, culture, philippines, singapore, travel | No Comments

Know your Asian ghostie: Hantu Tengelong (part 2 of 2)

Who was she?
She was once a mortal woman but that all changed when she traded her soul for beauty through the practice of black magic.
What does she want?
The blood of pregnant women. She perches on t…

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Posted by Raziel on October 31st, 2008 in East Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, asia, culture, philippines, singapore, travel | 3 Comments

Know your Asian ghosties: Hantu Tengelong (Part 1 of 3)

What is it?
Hantu tengelong or Hantu Penanggal is a ghoul from the Malay culture. It is a female creature that is seen flying around with only her head, lungs, stomach and intestines attached. The res…

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Posted by Raziel on October 31st, 2008 in East Asia, Malaysia, asia, culture, travel | 1 Comment

Know your Asian ghosties

In the spirit of Halloween, EAF want to introduce you to the Asian ghosties. Now we’re going to tell you all we know about each ghostie but that would require us to break each story up into a le…

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Posted by Raziel on October 31st, 2008 in Celebrations & festivals, asia, culture | No Comments

The Magic Fundoshi!

If you still don’t know your fundoshi, then obviously you must have skipped ‘Know your Fundoshi!’ But we’re nice people here at EAF so we’ll wait patiently while you go b…

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Posted by Raziel on October 30th, 2008 in Celebrities and fame, East Asia, Japan, asia, culture, fashion, singapore | No Comments

Know Your Fundoshi!

What’s a Fundoshi? Well it’s the traditional Japanese form of men’s underwear – to be more precise, it’s a loin cloth. So what’s so wonderful about the fundoshi? It…

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Posted by Raziel on October 30th, 2008 in Celebrations & festivals, East Asia, Japan, asia, culture, fashion | 2 Comments

Japan: Land of monogamous canines

Are you feeling down because you’re best friend’s getting married and you’re still struggling to find your ‘other half’*? Or perhaps your childhood friend’s getting…

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Posted by Raziel on October 30th, 2008 in East Asia, Japan, culture | 1 Comment

Bacolod Street Dancing Contest 2008

The Bacolod Street Dancing Contest is the highlight of the Bacolod Festival celebrations in the Philippines. This year a total of 22 groups competed in the Barangay Category of the Masskara Streetdanc…

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Posted by Raziel on October 29th, 2008 in Celebrations & festivals, East Asia, Pagents and Contests, asia, culture, philippines, travel | No Comments