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ASocialNomad

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I'm one half of ASocialNomad - been travelling since May 2014, I walk, take local transport, eat local and enjoy the cultural aspects of visiting new places. That, of course and the local beer and wine! I love sailing, skiing and scuba diving.
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Foods this traveler has tried.

Sourdough bread lined up at San Francisco's Boudin Bakery.

Ingredients & Condiments

Sourdough Starter

A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.

Civets (also called "luwaks") ferment coffee fruit seeds in their digestive tracts before excreting them.

Drinks

Kopi Luwak

This is one expensive load of crap.

When in Adelaide, get a pie floater.

Prepared Foods

Pie Floater

The Aussie street food meal of meat pie on a sea of peas.

A few dashes are sufficient.

Ingredients & Condiments

Maggi Seasoning

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.

It's an It's Its jackpot!

Sweets

It's It

This classic San Franciscan ice cream sandwich is it, isn't it?

Classic and chocolate-covered Kendal Mint Cakes.

Sweets

Kendal Mint Cake

The original energy bar.

Takoyaki

Prepared Foods

Takoyaki

Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.

A Hangtown Fry is the true breakfast of champions.

Prepared Foods

Hangtown Fry

This bacon-and-oyster omelet was a status symbol during the California Gold Rush.

At the Gilroy Garlic Festival, the tips of garlic ice cream cones look like mini bulbs.

Sweets

Garlic Ice Cream

In Gilroy, California, garlic flavors everything, including desserts.

Fermented horse milk is called airag in Mongolia.

Drinks

Kumis

Infants and Genghis Khan enjoyed this fermented mare's milk.

The molten cheese center cooks the egg and melts the butter.

Prepared Foods

Adjaruli Khachapuri

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

Eye candy and actual candy.

Sweets

Churchkhela

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.

Salep milk and a biscuit.

Drinks

Salep

A flour made from orchid roots makes for a popular Turkish drink.

Chocolate, pistachio, and vanilla dondurma.

Sweets

Dondurma

A rare orchid ingredient makes this ice cream stretchy and chewy.

Bovril from the Supermarket

Ingredients & Condiments

Bovril

This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.

A cup of atol de elote.

Drinks

Atol de Elote

It's delicious, unless a pregnant woman or anyone in a bad mood stirs it.

A rich and creamy cup of cà phê trứng.

Drinks

Vietnamese Egg Coffee

A decadent blend of coffee, whipped egg, and butter have made this wartime invention a modern-day favorite.

Grating coconuts using a coconut grater school in Tahiti, circa 1911.

Gastro

Coconut Grater Stool

You put the grater in the coconut...

Ube ice cream atop festive bowls of halo-halo.

Sweets

Halo-Halo

A sundae with a surprising mix of flavors that reflect Filipino history.

Caffeinated salad—how efficient.

Prepared Foods

Lahpet Thoke

In Myanmar, fermented tea leaves make a tangy, caffeinated salad.

The edible contents of the durian have been compared to custard.

Fruits & Vegetables

Durian

The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.

Sweet paan sans areca nut.

Prepared Foods

Paan

This chewable Indian digestive soothes stomachs, freshens breath, and might give you cancer.

Tibetan tea is made with tea, yak butter, and salt.

Drinks

Yak Butter Tea

It's the fat-fueled energy drink of the Tibetan Plateau.

If you've been good, you can have a chocolate fish.

Sweets

Chocolate Fish

The sweet Kiwi treat that represents a token reward.

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