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christinetran825

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Foods this traveler has tried.

Little purple noses.

Sweets

Cuberdons

The Belgian candy that sparked an epic vendor battle.

Brunost

Meats & Animal Products

Brunost

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

One of these peppers could set your mouth on fire.

Fruits & Vegetables

Pimientos de Padrón

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

Boylan's Birch Beer

Drinks

Birch Beer

This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.

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.

A beachside bounty from a clambake.

Gastro

Clambake

An ancient cooking method still produces delicious, beachside feasts.

Cuy being grilled in Ecuador.

Prepared Foods

Cuy

The guinea pig is both food and pet in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

An ornate set of molinillos for sale.

Gastro

Molinillo

Twist your way to hot chocolate perfection with this wooden whisk.

Chicha Morada

Drinks

Chicha Morada

Peru's purple drink made from purple corn.

Lifting a fresh eggette from the skillet.

Sweets

Egg Waffles

These portable pancake sheets have a crispy, hollow side and a sweet, doughy side.

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.

Coffee Jelly

Prepared Foods

Coffee Jelly

Leftover coffee plus gelatin equals this vintage dessert.

Tofu, scallion, and narutomaki soup.

Meats & Animal Products

Narutomaki

It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!

Peach buns symbolize longevity.

Sweets

Longevity Peach

These buns artfully resemble peaches and represent immortality.

A bowl of bird's nest soup, with ladybell root.

Prepared Foods

Bird's Nest Soup

It's expensive, it's gelatinous, it's made from swiftlet spit.

A close-up of the candy's fine strands and crunchy filling.

Sweets

Dragon's Beard Candy

The ancient confection consists of wispy sugar-strands that look like dragon whiskers.

Boiled fertilized duck egg.

Meats & Animal Products

Balut

In the Philippines, fertilized duck eggs are savory snacks.

Acorn jelly is often seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil, and comes topped with green onions, sesame seeds, and Korean chili flakes (gochugaru).

Prepared Foods

Acorn Jelly

The nut goes from oak tree to savory, sesame-topped side in a matter of days.

Homemade soup.

Gastro

Black Chicken Soup

In Asia, the black-skinned silkie chicken forms the base of a medicinal broth.

Preparing the dough.

Prepared Foods

Bamboo Pole Noodles

The dying art of flattening dough by seesawing on it.

Noni

Gastro

Noni

A fruit so foul, shamans use it to scare evil spirits.

Grass Jelly

Ingredients & Condiments

Grass Jelly

Once a treatment for heat stroke, the herbal gel now flavors desserts.

Pineapple Bun

Sweets

Pineapple Bun

This sweet treat is so beloved in Hong Kong, it inspired an animated movie.

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