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Sumo Stable

Posted on 20. May, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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We are seated cross-legged on the floor of a wood-panelled dining room. Laid out before us is an array of aromatic dishes. Unfortunately, my appetite has faded. I blame our waiters. Each weighs about 130 kilograms and all have rolls of suet quivering beneath their skin. Even more unusual is their attire–they are wearing nothing [...]

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Cinematic Travel

Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Slumdog Millionaire not only stole the show at the 81st annual Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture, it is also sure to bring a tourism boost to the city of Mumbai, which had seen a decline in visitors since the November 2008 terrorist attacks that killed 173 people. According to the Annals of Tourism [...]

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Fetish Food

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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A free vasectomy from the clinic next door is one of the perks for male diners at Bangkok’s Cabbages and Condoms, the only restaurant in the world dedicated to birth control. All diners get a condom with coffee, instead of an after-dinner mint. In an adjoining gift shop, bouquets of condoms stand in vases beside [...]

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Christmas Cheer

Posted on 20. Dec, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Not everyone in the world celebrates Christmas the way we do here in Canada, with a fat, elderly, laughing man in a red suit, who soars through the sky in a sleigh pulled by a team of magical reindeer, then lands on rooftops and slides down chimneys with a sack of toys. No sir, in [...]