Fruits & Vegetables
Umeboshi
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Drinks
Pink or green syrup turns a historic German ale into a tart, sweet delight.
Prepared Foods
Can you finish Bolivia's enormous starch-and-protein explosion?
Sweets
The ancient confection consists of wispy sugar-strands that look like dragon whiskers.
Prepared Foods
It's expensive, it's gelatinous, it's made from swiftlet spit.
Sweets
This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.
Fruits & Vegetables
The oldest fruit native to North America is probably the least known.
Sweets
These portable pancake sheets have a crispy, hollow side and a sweet, doughy side.
Gastro
A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.
Prepared Foods
This Okinawan specialty resembles a Japanese take on Taco Bell.
Prepared Foods
The guinea pig is both food and pet in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
Meats & Animal Products
It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!
Fruits & Vegetables
This "green caviar" is vegetarian friendly.
Prepared Foods
Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.
Drinks
This is one expensive load of crap.
Prepared Foods
Come to vote, leave with a sausage.
Ingredients & Condiments
Bees get a lift from helicopters in order to produce this spicy honey.
Sweets
The South Pacific's shrub-based drink causes relaxation, euphoria, and a tingling sensation.
Meats & Animal Products
These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Sweets
A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.
Sweets
A sundae with a surprising mix of flavors that reflect Filipino history.
Sweets
These buns artfully resemble peaches and represent immortality.
Drinks
A decadent blend of coffee, whipped egg, and butter have made this wartime invention a modern-day favorite.