Meats & Animal Products
Bonito Flakes
Some fish can dance.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Meats & Animal Products
It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Prepared Foods
A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.
Sweets
The cure and cause of a burning tongue.
Gastro
A ritual that showcases the beauty of the present moment.
Sweets
This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.
Ingredients & Condiments
The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."
Prepared Foods
This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.
Drinks
Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.
Fruits & Vegetables
Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.
Ingredients & Condiments
This mushroom tastes just like chicken.
Sweets
Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Prepared Foods
A sandwich so decadent, it was once inappropriate for women to order one.
Drinks
Residents of this Greek island distill mastic sap, the "tears of Chios," into a piney-sweet liqueur.
Fruits & Vegetables
The Greek island's volcanic soil produces an intensely fragrant, sweet crop.
Drinks
Pink or green syrup turns a historic German ale into a tart, sweet delight.
Sweets
These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Gastro
In Asia, the black-skinned silkie chicken forms the base of a medicinal broth.
Meats & Animal Products
This Chaoshan specialty makes it hard to resist playing with your food.
Sweets
This thick, jet-black soup is an amazingly fragrant and nutty Chinese dessert.