Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast

3.38: Like Looking in a Mirror


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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 40 - “Tigerbaum Dream” (タイガーバウムの夢), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Haw Par Corporation and Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore and Hong Kong.

- US website for the Tiger Balm line of products.

- Japanese Wikipedia page for Tiger Balm.

- Website for Tiger Balm’s parent company, the Haw Par Corporation (虎豹企業有限公司), and the Wikipedia page for the Haw Par Corporation.

- About Chinese Renaissance architecture.

- Haw Par Villa, Singapore's website and Wikipedia page.

- Very short article about Haw Par Villa, Singapore, with some photos from inside "The Ten Courts of Hell."

- About the “Four Asian Tiger” economies.

- Wikipedia page for Tiger Balm Garden, Hong Kong and the Haw Par Mansion.

- Wikimedia Commons photos of Tiger Balm Garden, Hong Kong and Haw Par Mansion.

- Video of Tiger Balm Garden, Hong Kong, from the 1949-1960, and from 2015 (just before it closed).

- Image searches for “Haw Par Villa” (Getty Images / Alamy) and “Tiger Balm Garden” (Getty Images / Alamy).

- The photo of statues of beautiful, smiling, nude women, that I can't verify is from Tiger Balm Gardens, but the poster says is from a family trip there in 1965.

- Two articles from Zolima City Mag: one about Adrian Wong's installation "The Tiger Returns to the Mountain" (inspired by Tiger Balm Garden), and one about Tiger Balm Garden and the Haw Par Mansion's history and future.

- A New York Times Article from 1985 about the Tiger Balm Garden, Hong Kong’s 50th Anniversary restoration.

- Memories of Tiger Balm Garden, particularly the part depicting hell.

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