honestly could be a leftover from the old Luisenstadt canal days, those brick walls are original canal walls from the 1850s. there's a bunch of weird little doors along the Landwehrkanal if you keep w...

gotta be honest, mondays in bangkok are quiet but there's a spot called the iron fairies on thong lor that does a weekly thing called "monday blues" which is more live blues and rock but the vibe is s...

you're not an idiot, this is just a hard thing to wrap your head around. saving face is more about preserving the social mood than telling the truth as a fact. your barber probably told you business w...

Nah, probably nothing. Tokyo's got a million gas stations, and a million weirdos. Older guys in Tokyo are *intense* in general, it's not just the gas station attendants. Maybe he was just tired, or ha...

another angle that nobody's hit yet is the depachika, the basement food halls in department stores like isetan in shinjuku or takashimaya in nihonbashi. they have butcher counters that'll sell you kur...