Foods battenandreas Has Tried

It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.

This is one expensive load of crap.

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

In an unassuming shop in Jaipur, a family has been serving highly addictive chai for decades.

This sweet and salty Indian drink keeps an endangered soda bottle in business.

Smells like lavender, tastes like lemon rind, looks like a gnarled claw fresh from your nightmares. 

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

This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.

These absorbent stalks make perfect flavor sponges in Vietnamese cuisine.

This Southeast Asian leaf can wake you up, knock you out, and subdue heroin withdrawal.

To celebrate the Holi festival, many Indians raise a glass of cannabis-infused milk.

Some fish can dance.

These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.

Essential to South Asian cuisine, the flavoring is illegal in some countries.

This cotton candy-like garnish is made of dried, candied meat.

All is fare in the Korean War.

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

Tiết canh is a sour, cool, and gelatinous breakfast.

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

Follow your nose through Taipei for this crispy, warm street snack.

A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.

Two Chinese bakery specialties, combined into one.

This once-common spice is now almost completely unknown outside India.

This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.