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Oh, the glamour. Oh, the clamour. Which Asian city will reel you in?
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Step outside the sleek hotels and chilly malls and you'll find the hallmarks of a typical Siamese village: doorstep shrines, taxi drivers knocking back energy drinks, chicken grilling on a street-side barbecue.
Beijing is loaded with big-ticket sights: the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven... and hundreds of karaoke bars.
There are so many ways to look at Hong Kong. Get up on the Peak to take in a shimmering panorama of city lights, get down in the streets to trace the layers of its history, watch the streets from over the rim of your noodle bowl. Then head to Macau to see what happens when Chinese and Portuguese cultures meet.
Kyoto, the imperial capital of Japan before Tokyo got the job, is a quintessentially Japanese city. Heritage-listed sights vie with some of Japan's finest international restaurants, flea markets sell vintage kimono fabric and those signature baths send you off into another world.
Seoul was once a city of philosophers and kings. It's now a little buzzier in this rambunctious metropolis...
Shanghai is an exhilarating, ever-morphing metropolis that's setting the pace for the rest of the world. Let our China-based authors take you there.
Sure, Singapore's renowned for its shopping and everyone's hungry for the hawker food, but wait! There's more! Grab the latest guide and lose yourself in this masterpiece of urban design.
You don't have to go far to get far-out in Tokyo. Spend a Sunday in Harajuku snapping the costumed kids, buy a USB drive that looks like sushi, watch the blades blur at Tsukiji Central Fish Market and digest it all over thimbles of sake in a Golden Gai drinking den.
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