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Foods this traveler has tried.

Hāngi

Gastro

Hāngi

Preparing a traditional Māori feast requires a rock pit heated by fire or hot springs.

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.

Takoyaki

Prepared Foods

Takoyaki

Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.

Spinach leaves topped with bonito flakes.

Meats & Animal Products

Bonito Flakes

Some fish can dance.

A lone umeboshi between chopsticks.

Fruits & Vegetables

Umeboshi

These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.

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 Zombie set aflame.

Drinks

The Zombie

Donn Beach wrote the recipe for his famously potent cocktail in secret code.

If you've been good, you can have a chocolate fish.

Sweets

Chocolate Fish

The sweet Kiwi treat that represents a token reward.

Do you want some hundreds-and-thousands on your bread?

Sweets

Fairy Bread

A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.

Whitebait fritters are a New Zealand delicacy.

Prepared Foods

Whitebait Fritters

It's fishy how close to an omelette this is.

Mock mushrooms are often added to yule log cakes, made of either meringue or marzipan.

Sweets

Yule Log Cake

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

A few dashes are sufficient.

Ingredients & Condiments

Maggi Seasoning

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.

Classic and chocolate-covered Kendal Mint Cakes.

Sweets

Kendal Mint Cake

The original energy bar.

Bovril from the Supermarket

Ingredients & Condiments

Bovril

This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.

Behold, the most popular bread topping in the Netherlands.

Sweets

Hagelslag

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.

Changes in cabin pressure may cause explosion.

Sweets

Exploding Chocolate Teacakes

In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.

Pie Birds

Gastro

Pie Birds

To release steam, Victorian bakers placed whimsical ceramics in their pastries.

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.

The hard brown exterior and cream-colored flesh of the stinking toe fruit.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinking Toe Fruit

If you can get past the foot odor, its pulp is great in smoothies.

The French wedding cake.

Sweets

Croquembouche

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

Powdered maca root.

Gastro

Maca

The Andean root once fueled Inca warriors.

Spaghettieis

Sweets

Spaghettieis

This German sundae masquerades as an Italian dinner.

A batch of traditional balsamic vinegar from Acetaia di Giorgio.

Ingredients & Condiments

Traditional Balsamic Vinegar

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

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

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