Cameos
This South Korean singer from BLACKPINK made her acting debut in The Idol (2023), appearing alongside The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp.
Who is Jennie (Kim Jennie)?
Before becoming a Marvel superhero in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, this actor worked as a stuntman and stock photo model.
Who is Simu Liu?
This simple Japanese dish is made of vinegared rice and raw fish and is often served on small wooden trays
What is sushi?
This country is the largest in Asia and stretches across both Europe and Asia
What is Russia?
This anime follows a student who finds a notebook that lets him kill anyone because what could go wrong with that
What is Death Note?
This Japanese baseball superstar briefly appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in a comedic skit before joining the Los Angeles Angels in 2018.
Who is Shohei Ohtani?
This Korean American actor rose to fame on The Walking Dead and later starred in the Netflix series Beef.
Who is Steven Yeun?
This Korean dish mixes rice cakes with spicy gochujang sauce and is a go-to snack sold from food carts
What is tteokbokki?
This desert in northern China and southern Mongolia is one of the largest in the world and grows every year
What is the Gobi Desert?
In this show humanity lives behind walls because giant naked people keep crashing the party
What is Attack On Titan?
This legendary Hong Kong action star made a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance in Enter the Dragon (1973) before becoming famous for his own films.
Who is Jackie Chan?
This Indian actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador became one of Bollywood’s biggest stars before breaking into Hollywood with Quantico and Baywatch.
Who is Priyanka Chopra Jonas?
This popular Indian street food piles spiced potatoes chickpeas and tangy chutneys onto crunchy puris
What is chaat?
This river in India is considered sacred and flows through the city of Varanasi
What is the Ganges River?
A quiet hat maker is cursed by a witch turns into an old woman and ends up living in a walking castle with a dramatic wizard and a talking fire
What is Howls Moving Castle?
This legendary Japanese director of Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro made an uncredited voice cameo in Earwig and the Witch (2020) — the first Studio Ghibli film not directed by him but by his son.
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
This Chinese-born director won the Academy Award for Best Director in 2021 for Nomadland, becoming only the second woman (and the first woman of color) to win the award.
Who is Chloé Zhao?
This Southeast Asian drink mixes tea milk and sugar and is often pulled high before serving
What is teh tarik?
This city in the Middle East is split between Asia and Europe and was once called Constantinople
What is Istanbul?
This anime follows a broke street kid who installs black market cyberware and goes from delivery boy to chrome legend
What is Cyberpunk Edgerunners?
This renowned Japanese musician and composer, who scored Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, made a cameo in that same film alongside David Bowie.
Who is Ryuichi Sakamoto?
This Japanese British singer-songwriter, known for her haunting vocals and experimental sound on albums like Man Made and Hold the Girl, is also a queer icon.
Who is Rina Sawayama?
In the Philippines this street snack is a fertilized duck egg with a developing embryo inside
What is balut?
This landlocked country is known for its dramatic mountain ranges and the Silk Road city of Samarkand
What is Uzbekistan?
A group of genius kids try to escape from an orphanage only to discover it’s secretly raising them as food
What is The Promised Neverland?