Foods malashka Has Tried

Usually, the only heat that gets close to this raw pork fat is a sprinkle of pepper.

Flip over these prickly treasures and find creamy, orange meat.

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

This Chaoshan specialty makes it hard to resist playing with your food.

Spain's salt-cured tuna is known as “the ham of the sea.”

This spiced jerky is a beloved snack in South Africa.

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

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.

In Gilroy, California, garlic flavors everything, including desserts.

The Belgian candy that sparked an epic vendor battle.

The dessert that's also a meal.

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

This gooey, sweet treat was a Soviet staple.

This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.

Soviet cafeterias whipped up this chocolate “potato” to use leftovers.

These ornately decorated spice cookies developed alongside a Russian city's gun industry.

The decadent pastry almost outshines the Slovenian lake it's named for.

Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.

This traditional dessert commemorates the country's sweet taste of victory over the French emperor in 1812.

No one eats pickled herring like the Dutch.

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

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

The most sobering salad of the Russian Civil War.

Savory meat jelly with a dollop of spicy mustard is a customary New Year's dish in Russia.