There are many gross things in Asia. Here's one of them.

Imagine ripping a loose thread off a white shirt. Now let's say you were bored, so you decided to play with it; so you twist it back and forth between your thumb and your index finger until it becomes this thick wad of thread, maybe with a loose end sticking out.

I was in a taxi with my manager and another, coming back from an extended lunch. As I looked over at the driver from my back passenger seat, I noticed that he had a white hair about 3 inches long extending from his jaw -- similar to the ones that grow so consistently out of moles, but there was no visible mole. This hair, wasn't quite straight, as it curved here and there slightly like the Trans-Canada Highway coming out of Vancouver.

Now take that curled up piece of string you were playing with, and imagine it attached to the end of the 3-inch hair growing out of this man's face. That's gross.