Sweets
Taiyaki
This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.
Prepared Foods
It's not what you think it is, unless you're from the Garden State.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Mexican fungal delicacy that makes corn taste like a mushroom.
Fruits & Vegetables
This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.
Fruits & Vegetables
These absorbent stalks make perfect flavor sponges in Vietnamese cuisine.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Fruits & Vegetables
This butterscotch-flavored fruit has a way with desserts.
Ingredients & Condiments
This plant adds a hint of vanilla and a wash of brilliant green to any dish.
Gastro
China's favorite urinating “tea pet” is actually a thermometer.
Ingredients & Condiments
This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.
Fruits & Vegetables
Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.
Drinks
Devoted fans pay thousands for bricks of this fermented tea.
Drinks
The perfect marriage of coffee and tea.
Sweets
These adorable buns hide savory and sweet surprises.
Sweets
This thick, jet-black soup is an amazingly fragrant and nutty Chinese dessert.
Drinks
What began as an April Fools' Day prank ended in a testicle-spiked beer.
Fruits & Vegetables
Relatively unknown outside South America, the tart, tomato-like fruit makes beloved juices and cocktails.
Sweets
No rodents were harmed in the making of this fried Canadian treat.
Prepared Foods
Battered and fried testicles make use of a cattle-country surplus.
Gastro
Once upon a time, getting your carbonation fix required a visit to a monstrous machine.
Prepared Foods
No one eats pickled herring like the Dutch.
Prepared Foods
Icelanders make a very, very good dog.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Prepared Foods
The most sobering salad of the Russian Civil War.