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- iReport: Where's your favorite airport?
- Flush Japanese city builds world's biggest toilet
- Calling all Muggles: The Harry Potter Exhibition is coming to Singapore
- Headhunter hospitality: A tribal homestay in Nagaland
- Jason Sheehan: Why do people take their food so seriously?
| iReport: Where's your favorite airport? Posted: 15 May 2012 12:52 AM PDT Many journeys nowadays start at an airport. That can mean frustrating queues, lost baggage and endless walks just so you can start your journey. But some airports make the first step a joy. We asked you to tell us which they are and why you love them. Asian airports dominate -- that concurs with the recent World Airport Awards (see the story here) -- but Vancouver flies for the flag for Canada too. Do you agree with our iReporters? Tell us your own opinion in the comments. Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong
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| Flush Japanese city builds world's biggest toilet Posted: 15 May 2012 12:31 AM PDT Heard the one about the crazy Japanese toilets? Thought so -- in which case, let us share with you a less-tedious tale of a different kind of far-out facility, whose janitors hope it'll turn out to be a top tourist draw. Ichihara City in Chiba Prefecture has just flipped the switch -- or yanked the chain -- on a new public toilet it claims is the world's largest. Technically, it's really a normal-sized toilet that happens to be sitting in a clear glass box on 200 square meters of open land -- it's the somewhat daring and expansive setting that makes for the claim. Splashing outThe ¥10 million pot is the work of architect Sou Fujimoto -- probably best known for his diaphanous Taiwan Tower design. As for splashing out on the costly commode, Ichihara's tourism mandarins reckon it might attract visitors, particularly during the city's annual arts festival and spring cherry-blossom peak. read more    |
| Calling all Muggles: The Harry Potter Exhibition is coming to Singapore Posted: 14 May 2012 03:07 PM PDT Did you weep inconsoleably as you watched the closing credits of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II," distressed by the knowledge that the adventures of J.K. Rowling's young Hogwarts characters were finally over? If you answered "yes," you might want to keep that to yourself. But do check out the traveling Harry Potter Exhibition, coming to Singapore's ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands this June. Visitors can experience recreated Harry Potter film sets like the Gryffindor Boys' Dormitory, which features the actual four-poster beds Harry and Ron used in the movie, a Hogwarts classroom, Hagrid's hut, the Forbidden Forest and the Great Hall. Movie props will be on display too, including Harry's glasses and his wand, Hermione's Yule Ball gown, the Golden Snitch and the Marauder's Map. Quidditch fans can check out Quaffles and toss balls used in the game in the exhibition's special Quidditch gallery. read more    |
| Headhunter hospitality: A tribal homestay in Nagaland Posted: 14 May 2012 09:06 AM PDT by Divya Dugar The largest out of 16 officially recognized tribes in Nagaland, the Konyak are known as 'those violent headhunters with tattooed faces.' I was planning to stay with them for a week. The journey to reach the Nyahnyu Konyak Village in Mon District in Nagaland was one of the most arduous trips I've taken. An early morning flight from New Delhi via Kolkata took us to the far northeastern Indian state of Nagaland. We stepped out on the tarmac of the state's largest city, Dimapur, after six hours in the air. That was just the beginning. In the city, we transferred to a jeep for a 10-hour road trip on twisting roads. We drove around boulders, had more than a few slippery turns, crossed shaky wooden bridges and faced the silence of the untamed jungles. read more    |
| Jason Sheehan: Why do people take their food so seriously? Posted: 14 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT
They called me names that I can't repeat in polite company, insulted my wife, my parents, threatened to come down to the office and kick my teeth in when I made a crack about sneaking a plastic bag full of grilled chicken into the vegetarian restaurant in order to make the limp, soggy vegan burritos fit for human consumption. Granted, I was a restaurant critic and everyone wants to kill the restaurant critic now and then. But there were nights when I was taking my life in my hands choosing between the momo and the iskender; in the obvious and wise decision to eat the mustard-spiked Carolina barbecue rather than the Texas brisket. When I said something nasty about the chicken rice at the rattletrap strip mall joint with the buzzing, dust-fuzzed neon sign and the powerful smell of industrial cleaning products, I wasn't just taking a shot at the food, but at Singapore in general, everyone who had ever lived there and the spirits of a million dead ancestors. read more    |
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