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
Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.
Prepared Foods
A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Ingredients & Condiments
These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.
Drinks
The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.
Prepared Foods
Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.
Fruits & Vegetables
The washed and dried root of the licorice plant was once a popular natural “candy.”
Fruits & Vegetables
The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Drinks
Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.
Sweets
These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
Sweets
These French candies originally came in seashells.
Sweets
The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.
Gastro
This ancient token of betrothal lives on as a Valentine's Day gift in Wales.
Meats & Animal Products
Brie's dark, older cousin can only be found in one region of France.
Meats & Animal Products
"Monk's Head" cheese requires a special shaver.
Sweets
These pink cookies are destined to be dunked in champagne.
Sweets
Smashing this chocolate cauldron is the best part of Geneva’s celebration of a historic battle win.
Drinks
South Korea's oldest alcoholic beverage is making a comeback.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most people have never tasted the real thing.
Drinks
A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Drinks
Devoted fans pay thousands for bricks of this fermented tea.