Foods boba Wants to Try

The savory, spiced flavor celebrates one of Singapore’s favorite dishes.

Two Chinese bakery specialties, combined into one.

This curry celebrates Japan's maritime history.

This mooncake's flaky exterior gives way to a creamy, sometimes stinky, core.

Japan's traditional temple cuisine features meals that are nutritionally and visually balanced.

In Tibetan temples, yak butter burns day and night.

From hulking plains creatures comes a delicate, nutty cheese.

Monks make this stunning, ephemeral art from yak butter and mineral pigments.

The Japanese city of Kumamoto specializes in “cherry blossom meat.”

This gooey, starchy gel is Brunei's favorite flavor vehicle.

These sweet and savory Japanese rolled eggs are sold in 6-packs.

Deep-fried pork intestines make a crispy, salty snack on the streets of Cebu City.

Goa's signature baked pudding cake is multicultural and multilayered.

Take the name of this street treat literally.

This sugar-soaked South Asian sweet isn’t your basic bread pudding.

Celebrate the harvest and the return of a beloved mythical king with this 26-dish Malayali feast.

This edible silver garnish has long added bling to South Asian cuisine.

This two-ingredient Malabari dessert turns separated eggs into a striking delicacy.

It looks like an exploding planet and tastes like sugarcane.

Mexico's “mouse melon” is actually a tiny cucumber.

Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.

This rare berry grows only in two Chilean towns.

The spiky, fruit cup-flavored orb made an appearance on “Star Trek.”

Inside a hard, yellow shell lies a sweet, black spread.